Real Estate company cannot handle a life sciences account with GSK - Compliance Specialist CBRE Employee Review

1.0
Dec 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

It's a job that pays money

Cons

No on-boarding or tools necessary to do the job. Unrealistic expectations for job performance. Pays approximately 30% below market value for similar jobs directly within the life sciences space, in order to make margin due to being a third party service provider. For the one year I've worked for the company, they have yet to retain a person in the same role as me for more longer than two months. Out of 3 open positions, 1-2 were open at any given time. I was asked to shoulder the extra work by working excessively (70+ hour weeks) and consistently, with not even a token reward. The job comes with no bonus and an annual increase of < 2% even for top performers. Long story short, no one wants this position; I'm in it due to a unique circumstance and am in the process of moving to a company outside of CBRE. The CBRE management on the GSK account does not care about its people and has drove some to exhaustion, alienated others, and fired key contributors as part of a "workforce harmonization" effort, despite being understaffed to begin with (and of course expected the remaining few workers who are already exhausted/overworked to pick up the slack).

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

The company has a great mentor program. You will meet colleagues who do amazing things like write books, receive leadership awards, and write checks to nonprofits that really need the help.

Cons

I really have no complaints. I am still in contact with many of my colleagues there.

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Honestly? Not much. The vision insurance was decent, I guess. Truthfully though, there wasn't much.

Cons

Management's refusal to allow employees freedom. I routinely got praise from the client and hit the maximum score on my goals. If things weren't done "by the book", they were wrong. The health insurance was awful. Going to self-employment, one of the things that you hear is that you're going to pay a lot for health insurance. However, I'm actually paying LESS than when I worked for CBRE. When you work for CBRE, don't consider job security something that you're going to have. I saw two employees with 15+ years for the company get laid off, with zero severance and no option to transfer elsewhere, unless they wanted to uproot their families and move states for more work and a pay cut. This is the worst company that I've ever had the displeasure to work for. If you have literally any other option of employment, please consider doing that.

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