Pay inequality is #1 - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

1.0
Sep 4, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you are an under achiever go here. Work life balance is great because expectations are so low. A high achiever can do 40 hrs of work in 20 which leaves you plenty of time do follow your own bliss.

Cons

Employees here are not high quality and lack the intelligence and drive common required to bring this business forward. During my time here I was so bored. Pay inequality is amazing - sometimes more than $100k difference between men vs women and minorities.

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Pros

Great team an collaboration across the world

Cons

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1.0
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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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