Yikes - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

1.0
Aug 7, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not many. The benefits came mostly from relying on what the Client offered on campus.

Cons

This was absolutely the worst professional experience I have encountered. The interview process itself took nearly 3 months-no reason given. From the get go, it was evident that my coworkers were not happy. There was no formal training, this is a sink or swim philosophy. When I addressed finding redundancy in tasks that slow down efficiency, I was told to do it anyways. Top down management with little respect to the team made the turnover high (10 people left within a year). The client itself was difficult, setting unrealistic timeframes and demands, But there was no advocacy to support the group. I went home on a regular basis feeling stress and anxiety. I quickly learned this was a toxic work culture and made the right choice to leave.

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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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