CoStar Group reviews

They act like they really care about their employees, but you are clearly only worth whatever your metrics are. As many have said below me, the metrics are extremely unrealistic, especially the higher you go in portfolio. This was something we discussed over lunch literally every day I was working there, so I know I wasn't the only one who felt this way. They try to claim not to focus on the metrics, if you just do your job, the call numbers will happen naturally. Not at all true. There were days where I made 80-90 phone calls, and still only had 9 "quality" (minute and a half long) conversations. I had plenty of clients who vastly preferred to communicate via email, and would give me all the information I needed, and yet they still didn't count towards my update frequency unless I also gave them an unnecessary phone call just to check, which usually pissed them off. They also change so many of their methods so quickly, it's hard to keep up. I understand that a company is constantly growing, but when you are taught something in your training, and the next training class (one week later) is taught the complete opposite, you're going to have a problem.

Please read everything in the below reviews. They are spot on when it comes to poor and incompetent management, terrible metrics that make the job worse than it really has to be, and unrealistic career goals. Research is essentially a slave ship where you either die (quit/fired), or you get a chance to move to another part of the slave ship (another dept.). Either way, you're still on a terrible ship with poor leadership. Granted, the company makes A LOT of money. In those terms, it's a good company. It's when you pull back the facade and look deeper and see the grimy, gross, underbelly of the beast. It's sickening that they haven't acknowledged their growing employee morale problem. They don't care. You're just another cog. Do not listen to their lies in the interview. You will be calling. A lot. You will not learn SQL, you will not learn anything advanced when it comes to commercial real estate. You will be a call center professional. That is your job until you quit or change departments, regardless if your'e an Research Associate I, II, or Senior Research Associate.