Anyone work in Corporate Real Estate? Ie: Netflix, Amazon, Sweetgreens, WeWork?
Looking to break into Corporate Real Estate field.. Does anyone have any advice on breaking-in to the industry/entry-level roles.

for those that don't know what Corporate Real Estate is: 

***"Corporate Real Estate Role***: Manage the real estate operations of a non-real estate focused, for-profit organization. Large non-real estate related companies own millions of SF of real estate. It’s where their employees work, their products are produced, and their customers shop. Corporations have a social and financial duty to manage this space effectively and efficiently, and so they hire real estate professionals to help them acquire, plan, manage, and dispose of the space they use." - AdventuresinCRE
[{"id": "fef6c20", "text": "My take on the role you were thinking is more geared towards facilities management at the entry level. Those coming from the outside CRE world into the corporate real estate world are more seasoned veterans with a lot of experience in lease negotiation. If you want to be in that world from a starting position you\u2019ll have to earn your way up.\n\nEdit: I work in commercial property management and have to deal with a variety of these people.", "replies": [{"id": "fef7caz", "text": "&gt; My take on the role you were thinking is more geared towards facilities management at the entry level. Those coming from the outside CRE world into the corporate real estate world are more seasoned veterans with a lot of experience in lease negotiation. If you want to be in that world from a starting position you\u2019ll have to earn your way up.\n&gt; \n&gt; \n\nGot it - so as an alternative to facilities management, would you actually recommend I work in retail or office leasing?", "replies": [{"id": "fef8d0p", "text": "Depends on your market. Personally, I would always lean towards office.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "fef8kcj", "text": "Also, just wanted to add that there are analyst roles out there. I would think those are fewer and far between and always at the headquarters of the company you were looking at. \n\nTargets for networking would include brokers who work with the in-house teams. Search for people on LinkedIn talking about deals recently closed for high profile, corporate clients.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fef8hq0", "text": "Not sure where you live or if you're willing to move but, check out the grocery stores and c-stores. Many will hire people straight from college into a specialist or analyst role.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fefm968", "text": "Start at a service firm (JLL, CBRE, Cushman &amp; Wakefield). These big companies will be your clients. That\u2019s where you get the experience, and lead to high level corporate real estate jobs. \n\nMost lower level in-house real estate jobs are entry level employees being rotated through the department, and they typically don\u2019t stay.", "replies": [{"id": "fegl9q8", "text": "This should be higher", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "feip6nm", "text": "What types of roles at JLL, CBRE, Cushman? Are you referring to Commercial Sales Agent? Or is there another role that I'm not thinking about.", "replies": [{"id": "feiucin", "text": "The specific department is Corporate Services or Corporate Solutions. You work directly with the Director of Real Estate at the large corporation, working on a range of deals they need done, depending on the industry. They could include office/industrial lease renewal/relocation, build-to-suit development oversight, portfolio lease admin, etc. All of those projects are what the Director of Real Estate does. \n\nI spent 7 years in a version of this at a small consulting firm. I had 5 Fortune-1000 clients I worked directly with on lease administration, surplus/blighted property disposition, and build-to-suit projects. I was traveling about half the time, visiting big and small cities, and working with brokers/economic development/developers. \n\nIf I\u2019m you I find 5 Directors\u2019s of Real Estate in your city and reach out to them. Tell them you\u2019re really interested in their field, and want to talk about how they got to where they are. After all, real estate is a people business.", "replies": [{"id": "feta2gc", "text": "I think this is the best advice. There\u2019s a ton of other departments that you can work your way into. I too work in corporate solutions in consulting.\n\nI\u2019ve also done brokerage too. I prefer consulting because of the wide net it casts to help a client. You are given an opportunity to get a bigger and better understanding of corporate real estate strategy why it\u2019s important, how it works, what the client needs to know, etc. And depending on what you do you can stay with the client a while. Lots of entry level analyst positions at one of the three firms you can probably apply to.", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fefopw3", "text": "I\u2019m working for a coworking company similar to wework. Joined as a financial analyst right out of university", "replies": [{"id": "fefv9ck", "text": "Very nice, how do you like it so far? How\u2019s the culture? The workload (do you work on weekends)? Did you have any prior experience in RE prior? \n\nI\u2019m assuming it\u2019s a company like Industrious or similar. That\u2019s what I\u2019m looking into.", "replies": [{"id": "feglihs", "text": "I like it a lot but sometimes I get sucked into non RE related work. Workload is pretty heavy as we are in a growth phase. 8am-7pm most days and answering emails at night. Light work on weekend, rarely have to go in the office. \n\nCulture is fun and fast paced but sometimes I wish I worked at a company that only focused on RE. Only a small team of 4/5 people that focus on finance/RE.\n\nI worked a summer in RE and completed an Argus training course and took some RE related courses in my final year of university.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fefsg5t", "text": "knee pads - extra theeck", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fefuzu2", "text": "Why corporate real estate and not some other aspect of commercial real estate?", "replies": [{"id": "fefv2op", "text": "I find Corporate Real Estate the most interesting field in CRE, just personal preference.", "replies": [{"id": "fefv3x6", "text": "What makes it interesting to you?", "replies": [{"id": "fefwdsw", "text": "The compensation and company culture seemed to be compelling, sure. I think working at an organization where it\u2019s more casual aligns more with my personality. \n\nThe work seems interesting whether you\u2019re working in-house at large technology companies (microsoft) or industrial (Amazon) or office (we work) to improve and manage their real estate. I actually just find it more an impactful work as opposed to the churn, burn, and flipping onto the next project in commercial development. You\u2019re directly responsible for space where employees rely on and seems for fulfilling for me  spiritually I guess. I\u2019m definitely naive to the inside but would appreciate any advice you might have if so. Thanks.", "replies": [{"id": "fefx4mx", "text": "There are many different ways to approach this but the basic skill set is programming (the architectural term), space planning, lease negotiation, lease documentation, and facilities management. \n\nWell, you could start in leasing brokerage working for the best brokerage and team your capable of doing. Know that you\u2019ll be a runner for 2-3 years and not make any money but you will learn how to determine Lease comps in a market and how to negotiate a lease letter of intent and maybe an actual lease document (although my experience is brokers don\u2019t actually look at these except to make sure their commissions are correct). Then, you could go back to law school, 3 years, then work at a law firm specifically in commercial real estate. That would put you about 10 years in and then you could jump to a nice corporate real estate gig at a major corporation with potential to run the group in the future.  If you don\u2019t want to get that heavy, just do the brokerage thing and then jump into corporate real estate but you won\u2019t know nearly that much and will put yourself at a disadvantage. Or, you could do the attorney thing but you won\u2019t know the business part. Facilities you can learn along the way but you can do some programs like Certified Property Manager. \n\nThat\u2019s how I would do it.", "replies": [{"id": "fefxziy", "text": "Wow great answer, thank you. \n\nDuly noted and will look into these different paths. Out of curiosity what field are you in?", "replies": [{"id": "fefy8bn", "text": "Commercial real estate development but looking at moving to a mainly acquisitions shop at the moment. I prefer the principal side.", "replies": [], "depth": 7}], "depth": 6}], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]