CBRE reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(12,983 total reviews)
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Robert E. Sulentic

83% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

CBRE has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 12,983 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CBRE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.7 stars).

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13K reviews
1.0
Apr 25, 2020

DO NOT WORK FOR CBRE

Recommend
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Pros

You get a paycheck and you can pay for health insurance options.

Cons

CBRE is the absolute WORST company you can work for. You are not valued here through hard work, but by favoritism. If you work overtime and past your regular 40 hours a week, your work ethic is not acknowledged and praised. Regardless of the networking and connections you make throughout the office and across regional and various divisions, all decisions are solely based on your boss, even when unethical. I have seen hard work get overlooked by favoritism of an employee who barely works, has minimal skills fit for the title of their role, and is not a team player. This person who was not fit for the role was promoted many times within a short time frame. The benefits are terrible. Health insurance is absurdly overpriced. Budget cuts occur too often. Too much power is left in the hands of clients and does not show the Company caring for employees.

1.0
Aug 27, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

NOTHING ! There is nothing good about this company unless you work on a brokerage team. All other departments have a horrible work culture ( especially Property Management / Asset Services )

Cons

3 managers in 2 years, 2 of 3 directors quit, micromanaging and yes-man culture, toxic work environment, 20% underpaid compared with similar positions at Alexandria, Biomed, and Kilroy

2.0
Aug 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Pay is good - Depending upon on your team, you may get a reasonable manager (I've had over 5 managers in the 5+ years I've been here)

Cons

- Upper management (includes directors and above) lack transparency - Upper management will not fire bad managers or employees for that matter. They prefer to put you somewhere you don't like, dog you to death and then hope you quit. - High employee turnover - Lack of diversity. Having lots of employees from India is not diversity. The two biggest minorities in the DFW area are Blacks and Hispanics and I've only seen a handful (I can count them on my hands...literally less than 10) in IT. - Lots of movement (between floors, buildings and even cities lately) so where you get hired to work may not be the same in a year or two. Management also does NOT take employee input into consideration when it comes to location. - Capital One employees hired at senior levels. That's where CTO is from so she has hired in her puppets that do her bidding (read: they don't represent YOU; they represent HER) - A bias among upper managers for Amazon's Cloud over Azure despite the fact that we WERE mostly a .NET shop before they arrived. It's the hammer they know from their Capital One days and its the business that suffers with all the chaotic movement (very few features...just a lot of technology changes from their prospective).

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