Great place to be a broker, terrible for anyone else - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

2.0
Aug 2, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Fortune 500 Company -Brokers are some of the best in the business and very successful financially

Cons

-Brokers are treated like celebrities and are all wealthy white men (do not know of a single ethnic broker in the SF office) -Very few brokers actually started out as analyst and worked their way up, usually just poach top brokers from other companies -Any support position (analyst, senior analyst, graphic designer, client services, etc.) is grossly underpaid and is expected to serve the brokers every request 24/7 with no outlined career path -SF management team is extremely dysfunctional and incapable - i question whether this is really how a fortune 500 company operates every day -Analysts typically stay for 2 years before burning out and moving on to competitor who is actually willing to help transition them to brokers

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