CBRE reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(12,956 total reviews)
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Robert E. Sulentic

83% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

CBRE has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 12,956 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CBRE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.7 stars).

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13K reviews
2.0
Aug 7, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

For now, flexible hours, work from home a couple times a week. Opportunity to learn new technology, expand fields of interest. Benefits are average.

Cons

Seating/office environment is open and on top of each other. There are small desks lined up and facing one another, can be awkward. Very noisy environment with exec VPs taking open offices but everyone else to "find an open spot". Odd that largest commercial real estate company in the world can't provide nicer corp offices for IT folks. Other non-IT offices are much nicer but IT is herded into open seating under the guise of "promoting collaboration". Leadership also seems to be fixated on propaganda/promoting, and thus creating barriers, groups based on race or other "identities" of the day. Most dismiss it, even joking about creating corp spam email filters for certain keywords.

3.0
Jul 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

If you make over $100k, you get unlimited vacation (although it's rarely used). Encourage remote work environment Offer opportunities to expand your skills

Cons

Tend to keep and/or promote empolyees with multiple complaints and/or are unprofessional (especially men) - may be specific to one platform Reporting of harrassment/hostile work environment not taken seriously (especially if it's against a man) No management training program (working with new managers to ensure they are representing the company values New insurance plans are not up to par with the prior plans

2.0
Jul 27, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Always hiring. Benefits package isn't terrible if you manage to make it past the contract-to-hire process. Free coffee and soda, workout room is surprisingly good.

Cons

Immense turnover rate, no corporate culture, management is completely incompetent. I have worked at several call centers over the years, and CBRE's IT Helpdesk is the most metrics-driven, dehumanizing group I have ever worked for. Management literally treats all new hires as machines - minimal training, usually less than a week, and then onto the phones in an understaffed and overstretched queue of calls worldwide. There is no functional Knowledge Base to speak of, and Team Leads/Management are slow to answer any questions new hires have, if they bother to respond at all. New hires who take longer than 10 minutes on a call are regularly urged to "boot" the call - either escalating to another team, or referring the caller to another group, neither of which will actually fix the issue. Employees are regularly told that "bathroom breaks are not mandatory" when they attempt to go on one of their 15 minute breaks. The Service Desk's metrics are terrible - weeks at a time will pass where the abandon rate is well over 20%. This is entirely due to Management's failure to train employees or give them the tools to fix caller issues, rather than just seeing how much call turnover can be churned out.

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