Overworked and underpaid - Senior Accountant CBRE Employee Review

2.0
Mar 28, 2012
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Pros

If you are new as an accountant, you definitely will get your hands dirty in learning almost everything there is to know about putting together a financial report. From journal entries to funding requests to specific clients, it will allow you to grow as much as you want, depending on how much effort you put in.

Cons

As you need to put effort into your work at CBRE, it is also critical to find out who that effort needs to be viewed by. Political hierarchy is very apparent on every team in the Bloomington office, so work wisely.

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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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