CoStar Group reviews

Metrics are idiotic. They go out of their way to create ridiculous requirements that don't actually have a benefit. Clients who pay thousands and thousands really hate getting called over and over just so you can get your 90 second call and spew out the company branding(yes this is essentially a scripted call center position)

It has been a long, long time since I worked for CoStar (over 15 years). On many levels, CoStar in 2018 is vastly different than the one I knew. Given how long I've been gone it's impossible for me to describe, with any degree of accuracy, CoStar's current culture. It is interesting, however, that many of the negative comments I've read in these reviews are carbon copies of those I heard in the early 2000s - toxic environment, emphasis on metrics, poor communication, disdain for non-senior level employees, very little/no professional growth opportunities, shifting directives based on the Andy's latest whim, not knowing if today would be your last, and on and on and on. I saw committed employees - good, solid people - fired for the most ridiculous reasons you could imagine. The best analogy I've ever heard about working for CoStar came from someone who worked there (sales) much longer than I did. The person said that working for CoStar is kind of like being hired to be an NFL coach. The day you accept the job you know you're being hired to eventually be fired. In the interim, you try to ride the wave as long and as well as you can.