Trust these reviews! Don't take a chance! - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

1.0
4 Jan 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Hours but nothing else in my book unfortunately

Cons

I was one of those people who read all the reviews and still said "oh those people must have been negative and weren't good at their job". I was convinced the job would be what "I" make it. Not the case. Management is clueless and has no desire to learn. There is NO- I REPEAT NO- training whatsoever. If you're lucky you will shadow someone for a couple of days and then you're on your own. That would be okay if there was any type of structure to CBRE's accounting processes but there is not. They do not have a uniform structure for their financial reports, filing of various clients' documentation, etc. Everything is all over the place and management could care less because they don't do anything but sign off on what the accountants do. Management doesn't actually have to know how to do the work of the accountants they supervise at all.

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Pros

Great team an collaboration across the world

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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