Work/life balance is a pipe dream. - Senior Accountant CBRE Employee Review

2.0
Jun 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly coworkers. Challenging. Good promotional opportunities. Location is central Twin Cities making it easy commute from most areas.

Cons

Pay significantly below market comparables. Employees are expected to work long hours with little thanks. If you are a solid performer, you are rewarded with more work. Management staff rarely helps out staff, just delegates more. Very young manager team lacks professionalism.

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Pros

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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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