Exciting Environment, Challenging Projects, Unfortunate Company Structure & Legacy - Senior Manager CBRE Employee Review

4.0
7 Nov 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- Success leads to rapid career advancement, limited legacy / seniority issues - Opportunity to handle major projects and deal with world-famous clients - Market leader for brand and contacts - Friendly colleagues, limited "political" stuff - Company is moving in the right direction with the market to grow (mostly)

Cons

- Frustrating disconnect between staff and senior management - Senior management can get far too involved in small things (no delegation) and make your life hell - Run with a very military style of command leadership - Business is operated as if its still a small start up in VN, not a 250 person functional firm - An aversion to education & training - Questionably equitable bonus & commission structure on revenue generated - Organized so no cooperation between business lines or in some cases colleagues (total silos)

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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