Do Not Work Here - Control Systems Specialist CBRE Employee Review

1.0
11 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get a toe in the door with Amazon, and I mean a pinkie toe, and it's not really in, you just know where the door is now.

Cons

Interview claims to have a standard engineering environment. This is wrong. Amazon expects miracles and flat out impossible automation tasks (due to equipment capability), local management offers zero support to team. Extremely high turnover, in 6 months 8 controls people have quit, area managers have quit or been fired, moral can't get any lower than it already is. Numerous employees have not gotten paid due to payroll issues. Managers can't figure out how to submit holiday time. Training is non existent.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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