Best place in the industry, salary is average but work life balance - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

4.0
Jul 24, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great place to work, friendly and professional staff with the best people from the industry, lots of great projects

Cons

salary is average and lower than IB and Financial Services, taking into consideration that staff here is very prepared and with great backgrounds

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Pros

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Cons

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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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