What you'd expect from a global commercial RE firm. - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

4.0
28 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity for advancement, professional work environment, competitive salary

Cons

As you'd expect, producers (i.e. brokers) get the most coddling for obvious reasons. I enjoyed my support role but eventually tired of working for fussy salespeople. The property management division was fantastic; the people are great to work with. Overall, CBRE was good to me - I started as a receptionist and was afforded the opportunity to move up several levels within the company before I had to move on for personal reasons. I have kept in touch with my former coworkers for years because of the relationships I was able to build here.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
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Pros

The company has a great mentor program. You will meet colleagues who do amazing things like write books, receive leadership awards, and write checks to nonprofits that really need the help.

Cons

I really have no complaints. I am still in contact with many of my colleagues there.

1.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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