CoStar Group reviews

2.7

34% would recommend to a friend

(3,012 total reviews)
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Andrew C. Florance

32% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

CoStar Group has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,012 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The CoStar Group employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Nov 19, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is fair, location was good. However my advise to you is RUN as fast as you can. You will find that the minute you walk in the door there is no such thing as job security or even job discription. No matter how bad you need a job right now, you are better off working at McDonalds fipping burgers. Trust me!!!!

Cons

Change, change and oh did I say change. They change their minds, rules and metrics faster and more often than I change my underware. Be prepared to get dizzy and never measure up. BTW dont bring anything personal from home to put on your desk, most people get discharged without warning and your stuff gets left on your desk. Management will tell you that your friends got fired for performance, but you can see the public metrics for yourself, and your friend was doing better than center standards. No rhyme or reason for the disposable empolyee mentality. STRESS STRESS and more STRESS to meet goals and oh btw, even if you are doing better than your manager asked you to, if someone else does better than you, you end up on the bottom of the metrics and therefore you dont get a bonus and can get fired. Where else can you meet and even exceed the company goals and still get fired because others did better?

1.0
Oct 29, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The only reason to work here is if you are totally desperate and no one else will hire you. Then you will have to start looking for another job as soon as they hire you, because you are not going to like it. It only takes about a week to realize the moral is horrible.

Cons

You will be micro-managed, given no respect, and given no opportunities for growth. This is a Telemarketing environment. Little or no real estate knowledge will be obtained at this company. Working here is a waste of your time and energy. This company just sucks the life out of people.

2.0
Oct 16, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Well, the Bethesda ofice is on top of a Metro stop. And you get your own incoming 800#.

Cons

Any job in the Research Dept. has a requirement for a set minimum number of completed tasks in a day and/or week and/or month. These standards are determined without realistic consideration for the researcher's ability to successfully extract the necessary information from a research base that has little or no inclination to provide such information. If you fail to meet those standards then you're soon on a short walk toward the door. Managers are terrified to counter the edicts of upper management as they themselves are held to similar metrics regarding their own production and there are always warm bodies able to be promoted to a management slot (all too frequently without any training on how to manage people.) Career paths are created with great flourish although they require the need to meet annual standards that cannot be met when working a 40 hour week. As a result, the salary bands look attractive to newcomers but no one stays around for longer than 12-18 months before fleeing. One of the best comments from a departing employee was: "This was a great first job." Oh yes, all of your telephone calls are monitored for "coaching." "Coaching" could better be described as catching you in your mistakes and warning you about ever doing anything like that again.

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