Real Estate Manager - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

2.0
May 17, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent training provided. Huge corporate structure and big name recognition, it gets you in doors perhaps otherwise not possible. Vendors seek your business and want to be on your A-list. No one had to ask twice. Very nice working for such a "well respected" corporation.

Cons

From the beginning, even the new hire process was difficult - such that the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing. Size of corp may have had to do with this; not sure? Lots of back stabbing in our department. Accounting wanted to blame property management (asset services) for it's dysfunction and errors and vice versa. In over 20 years in property mgmt never worked with such a cut throat group, very disappointing. Very unprofessional.

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5.0
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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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