CBRE reviews

170 people packed onto two small floors of a building, more people visiting the office each day so if you’re not in your desk will be used by someone else as not enough seats for rear ends. Apparently they regularly move people around so they don’t get too used to anything. Fairly entry level work for even experienced accountants. A lot of data input and rubbish slow systems that aren’t maintained by the company, instead they are client systems used by CBRE. Therefore they have no say in what system developments happen. Lots of so called directors swanning around thinking they are something hot when they’re not. Noisy and like a train station on a Friday night at teatime. Nasty HR and management staff. Also office admin interview accountants at the first round of interviews which is odd. Poor level of pay, about £5k-£10k less than the going rate I’d say, but they think that’s ok because they give away free fruit once a month. Glad I was only there a month.

Seating/office environment is open and on top of each other. There are small desks lined up and facing one another, can be awkward. Very noisy environment with exec VPs taking open offices but everyone else to "find an open spot". Odd that largest commercial real estate company in the world can't provide nicer corp offices for IT folks. Other non-IT offices are much nicer but IT is herded into open seating under the guise of "promoting collaboration". Leadership also seems to be fixated on propaganda/promoting, and thus creating barriers, groups based on race or other "identities" of the day. Most dismiss it, even joking about creating corp spam email filters for certain keywords.