Not a Safe Place - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

1.0
21 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you can get on a good team doing some good deals, it is a good way to build up your resume. You can build some good skills. Project management seems to be a safe department.

Cons

Not sure who is submitting positive reviews of the company... anybody I know who is there or has left was not a fan of it. Head management does not care about you, only what the brokers produce. If you bring up any issues regarding harassment (all kinds), hostility, or abuse you will be dismissed. Because the industry runs on nepotism, if you do not come from a prominent family you will not be favourited, heard, or advanced. The environment itself it very toxic, normalizing sexist, awful behavior and because everybody is forced to normalize it to survive, you will too. It is like Mad Men era abuse, Me Too movement did not impact the culture - anything 'woke' posted publicly is just a PR stunt designed to help silence you and exempt them from future liabilities. I highly advise to not join this company if you are a woman, a young professional, or especially a young vulnerable woman as in all of those categories you will get chastised, manipulated, and taken advantage of. If you report it, it will get covered up. If you are employed there, take your experience and get paid more elsewhere or in the tech industry. Make sure to save everything in writing.

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