CBRE reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(12,939 total reviews)
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Robert E. Sulentic

83% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

CBRE has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 12,939 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 Bienes raíces industry (3.8 stars).

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13K reviews
2.0
Jan 31, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Some of the people were nice - Immediate benefits upon hiring

Cons

I worked in an admin role here (CSA) and it was NOT what I thought I was getting into. The actual role varied immensely from what was mentioned in the job description, and I was always either absolutely overwhelmed or completely bored. The onboarding was non-existent, and speaking to other CSAs was not very helpful as everything varies based on what "team" you work with. Some of the people were nice and friendly, but there are a lot of corporate jerks here. People that won't speak to you because you're below them on the pay grade, a lot of yelling and shaming even when you follow instructions, and not a lot of clear guidelines. I was leery about taking this job initially (should have listened to the red flags going off) and it was a really bad experience. Conflicting instructions, everyone thinks they're top dog, no helpful feedback... If you're a young person interested in design, HR, finance, or admin, I'd recommend you take ANY job other than this. It's not worth the headache and anxiety.

1.0
Jul 16, 2017

IT Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Good business model. Good flexibility at work.

Cons

The IT department (now called D&T) has extremely corrupt hiring practices. Its very difficult to get in without a referral. A few years back they hired a VP from Perot systems who brought in close to 50 of her people from Perot in good positions (Director and above) thereby completely ignoring the hard working internal employees. Needless to say a majority of them were useless but were brought in superseding the talented internal employees. These same employees once inside had a big network amongst themselves and continued to get good performance reviews, better raises and promotions since they were in the Perot network and thereby corrupting the entire system. The IT Department lost a good number of internal employees because of that. With the arrival of the new CIO (Chandra) last year, she has brought in her own team now who hires only from Verizon at astronomical salaries and again ignoring the compensation paid to existing internal employees and creating a big salary disparity. Most of these new Verizon employees are pampered excessively but bring in little in terms of expertise which would be valuable to CBRE. The same mistake is being made all over again. Over the last six months a good number of internal old employees have left. This place is just a mess !!! Nepotism is rampant here especially in IT !!!

1.0
Apr 5, 2019

Worst IT department

Recommend
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Pros

CBRE is only company which will you laptop (after 7 day of joining without charger, bag, mouse etc) then after a no of request they will give you charger, then to get mouse you have to again beg. At last you will think that you are no more a professional but became a beggar and you will purchase your own carry bag and second monitor HDMI cable. THE WORST EXPERIENCE I AM FACING IS WITH SO CALLED #WORLD's LARGEST REAL ESTATE CONSULTING COMPANY.# DONT JOIN IT.

Cons

If you want to park your car then you have to pay 3500 INR per month. (Again cheap rule from so called WORLD's LARGEST REAL ESTATE CONSULTING COMPANY)

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