Manager/Director/VP Digital and Technology - Senior IT Leader CBRE Employee Review

2.0
Aug 7, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

For now, flexible hours, work from home a couple times a week. Opportunity to learn new technology, expand fields of interest. Benefits are average.

Cons

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.

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Pros

Great self growth and development initiatives, lots of growth opportunities

Cons

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1.0
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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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