I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at CBRE (Newport Beach, CA) in Jul 2015
Interview
Not technical at all--all about personality, fit, and long terms goals. They want to know that you plan on staying and will contribute to the culture as a team player. A lot of producers do stay at the firm for a long time (decades in many cases).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you get into commercial real estate?
Why do you want to move to CBRE?
Two or three rounds. First was behavioral. Second was a modeling test. Third was presenting the text and pitching business. Met with the team and guy who ran the whole office. Overall was a great experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how you would underwrite this and pitch this business.
The interview with CBRE consisted of only one round with the team I applied for. Asked questions on past job experience and why I want to work for CBRE. All behavioural questions.
Asked a lot of background information, and also asked question regarding views on property market and capital market etc
Some of them seems not quite related to the job
Maybe the interviewer is testing the candidate about the sense to the property market
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you think the capital market will be in 3 years?