Pros
This is an avenue to get into Commercial Real Estate, albeit a circuitous one Free fruit The benefits are great Many nice, well-meaning people
Cons
The way that people are treated and managed at CoStar is notoriously dehumanizing. My manager once told me: "Make sure you have someone to blame" My team often worked directly with the CEO, Andrew Florence. Andy is an irascible, mercurial, vindictive leader that believes in humiliating, intimidating, and debasing his colleagues in front of others. Despite his stature, Andy terrifies the executive leadership on down. People are even afraid to openly acknowledge Andy's behavior and only reference him to others with cryptic whispers. Andy blames all of the company's shortcomings on the people around him, which is ironic because he doesn't allow virtually any decisions to be made without his approval. Andy is the King Joffrey of CEOs. If you've ever had to use a CoStar product, you know Andy doesn't know how to run a technology company. The technology stack is a massive dinosaur of obsolete bandaids-on-bandaids. I am sure that many of the higher-ups are actually talented but their single most important skill is surviving at CoStar. Almost all of the leadership has worked at CoStar their entire careers so they have never had exposure to real leadership. Andy was worst rated CEO in DC on Glassdoor in 2013 and he had a meltdown. After that came out, you can see that there was some pressure to improve the reviews of CoStar/Andy. This also seems to be the time when they started publicizing the employee health initiative, which rewards people's Fitbit achievements. Keep looking. You're better than this.
