Dependent on department/contract - Senior Receptionist CBRE Employee Review

3.0
Jan 23, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits. Three weeks PTO + 11 corporate holidays. ETW discount at Nike if you're on the Nike account.

Cons

Culture is divisive and biased. Favoritism is prevalent. Any attempts at mediation to resolve conflict is handled very poorly, usually siding with one without hearing both stories without bias. An attitude of "keeping them in their place" is palpable. I was not alerted to the one floating holiday per year policy. As questions arose, my co-workers and I were all given different answers. One answer allowed to use it in January, another gave allowance to only use it during Power Down (last week of December), and a third answer did not allow it to be used at all. This is unethical at best.

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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
Recommend
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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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