CoStar Group reviews

2.7

34% would recommend to a friend

(3,014 total reviews)
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Andrew C. Florance

32% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

CoStar Group has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,014 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
Jul 9, 2018

Horrible work environment and culture

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Pros

the health benefits were good.

Cons

Terrible leadership from senior management. Employees are under constant threat of being terminated. When employees make a mistake, they are often times called out by a senior manager or CEO in front of their peers. The culture needs to change to allow employees to feel safe with speaking their minds.

1.0
Jul 31, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits. Not cooped up in an office.

Cons

9 hours a day in a car. Editing photos in a car. Driving until you can find a good cell signal so that you can work. Great amount of time wasted. The job was initially to work for several hours gathering photos and data, then going home to edit photos and enter data. This was a great job. Then, in April, they decided to make us work out of our car. All day long. A car is NOT an ergonomic workstation. If you have any lower back problems this will destroy your spine, like it did mine. Then, when you're on doctor's restrictions they will fire you, leaving you without a way to pay for all of the medical bills you've accumulated due to their ridiculous, bottom-line-is-the-only-thing-that-matters policies. This job cost me a lot more than it ever compensated me.

1.0
Aug 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and competitive salaries. 401k matching, employee stock options and stocked up fridge. I can't think of anything else.

Cons

Very bad work culture. You have absolutely no freedom to work. You must only follow orders from your manager. The culture does not encourage new ideas and engineers working there for over 10 yrs are extremely sensitive about their code even though it's obsolete. There's absolutely no scope of growth and if your manager is bad, God help you. There's no chance of switching the team. Absolutely zero work from home policy. I had to come to work even during Sandy storm. I was told that CEO has a habit of sneaking in and peep in your machine and hence absolutely NO NO to browsing other than work. They track all your incoming and outgoing time and if total is less than 8 hrs, an email gets triggered to your manager, that's the level of micro management. If you want a 9-5 job and do not want to take pride in your work, this job is for you.

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