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      CoStar Group

      Engaged Employer

      CoStar Group reviews

      2.7

      34% would recommend to a friend

      (3,017 total reviews)
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      Andrew C. Florance

      32% approve of CEO

      38% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      CoStar Group has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,017 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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      3K reviews
      1.0
      Jul 3, 2019

      Leave a good glassdoor review if you want to get a free car

      Anonymous
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      How much money do you spend on snacks? $3 a day? Like everyone else here I will say the biggest pro is free juice and snacks. But if the best thing about the company works out to $3 a day is it really a pro?

      Cons

      #1 costar is a data company. Manipulating data os our specialty. Look very closely at the glassdoor reviews. Scroll back. Look at the graph showing historic ratings. One day out of the blue 6 vice presidents and all their direct reports left 5 star reviews. Since then the company has held cash bonuses and even teslas ( why is the ceo obsssed with tesla??? ) as lottery prizes to incentivize 4 and 5 star glassdoor reviews. Because it is easier and cheaper than fixing the problems and because most of the people they want to hire will not look past the star rating at the top of the page. Ignore job titles when searching reviews. Thousands of Researchers just had their name changed to Marketing Consultant. Photographers had their job changed to Field Researcher. Poof! Now when I see a job opening and research it there are no negative reviews for Marketing Consultant. Like a bad restaurant changing names to hide from Yelp.

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      CoStar Group Response
      6y
      Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback about your experience at CoStar Group. We are sorry to hear that your experience working here has been less than ideal. While it’s never easy to hear negative feedback, we take both the positive and negative reviews seriously and use them to evaluate where we’re getting it right and where there are opportunities to improve. Specifically to your comments about incentivized Glassdoor reviews: We, of course, appreciate when employees share their positive experiences with the company, but all reviews listed on this site are 100% voluntary and are provided by willing, real, current and prior CoStar Group employees. No reviews listed were written in a false manner in an effort to inflate ratings. The Teslas you mention were given to our Hall of Fame sales force during this year’s Sales Conference and were a recognition of years’ worth of hard work, outstanding performance, and dedication to CoStar Group. Additionally, a change in title is simply a reflection of evolving business priorities and refocusing job functions and duties. While data and research are the foundation of our business, marketing services have become increasingly important to our customers and the commercial real estate industry. For this reason, we elevated the titles of our researches to better reflect the core responsibilities of the position. We value all of our employees and the work they do to make our entire organization successful. If you would like to follow up on any of the concerns you addressed and provide additional detail, please reach out to your manager or email HRdepartment[at]costar.com.
      1.0
      Mar 26, 2019

      Horrible Company

      Community researcher
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good benefits, free snacks, and nice office building.

      Cons

      Where do I start? CoStar is a very racist company. The department I worked in (apartments.com) was 97% African American which included managers and the director. The job itself was very repetitive and almost robotic-like. Breaks were minimal considering you're expected to make 250+ calls a day. Coming into the job everyone seems friendly until you've worked there long enough. A lot of nepotsim goes on in this place. If you are favored here, they will cover up a lot of tardiness and adjust your metrics. There is no work life balance especially if you have children. HR completely ignores any concerns you may have. If you are considering a job here and you absolutely need a paycheck then this job may work for you, but career wise look elsewhere.

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      CoStar Group Response
      7y
      Thank you for your feedback and more importantly, thank you for your time and contributions while you were a member of the CoStar team. CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race or any other protected class, and we take all reports of potential discrimination extremely seriously. It is also very important to us that our employees’ metric-based performance is evaluated objectively and that employees are provided with information regarding the career opportunities available to them in the company. Again, we appreciate your feedback and your contributions to CoStar. We wish you the best of luck.
      1.0
      Jan 21, 2019

      I think my one star can be the title of this

      Collections specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Free food Trainer Gym and fitness room Great Christmas Party every year Good location!

      Cons

      MANAGEMENT! Omg what can’t I say is wrong with this place. First of all I was super excited to work here when I was offered the job. BUT that was short lived. They glossed away from the full truth about the position being a call center—IT IS! A glorified call center! Collections a call center?! How do you expect people to get stuff done? They dodged that in the interview. Other people have said the same thing pertaining to their interviews. They micro manage you and track EVERYTHING over half the people in my dept are unhappy working there. I’d say about 80% *shrugs*. The environment is uncomfortable you feel like you’re being judged by your every move. There are also people who secretly watch people and tell management about the littlest things that have nothing to do with them, their work or your work! I’ve seen people who are new start looking for work elsewhere after like 3 months of being there. I’m open to work at Starbucks until another position opens up. Don’t let the free stuff fool you. Its a heavily metrics environment and all they want are results no matter the cost of the employees level of stress. Some people are handling it well. I will say this though..... I don’t think every manager sucks. I enjoy working with some of the people there. I’ve developed quite a few friendships as well BUT STILL! It’s a very babyboomer vibe but with a lot of millennial and the younger Gen X’ers as employees...think about how that works smhh

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