CoStar Group reviews

-Although this position requires a 4-year degree, you will quickly learn that your education is absolutely useless here; anybody can be trained to do this job -The metrics are unrealistic; depending on your portfolio and market you are either set up to succeed or to fail. You can work your butt off but if you have a difficult portfolio, you will not meet your metrics. -There is an extreme lack of communication between middle-management and researchers with things constantly changing without the changes being communicated -You are made to feel completely disposable and unvalued, they do not think twice before firing people, often without good reason -They are very misleading during the interview process, stating that "every research research associate starts at the same annual salary, paid hourly," when in reality the researchers in Richmond get paid 20% more for doing the exact same job in a city where the cost of living is significantly lower than DC, San Diego, & Toronto -You are also led to believe that you will learn a lot about the CRE industry when in reality you will only learn some very basic key terms that most people with any CRE knowledge already know

New Costar Account Execs will find themselves in situations where they are required to extinguish fires from previous reps who oversold or neglected to provide good customer service to clients. Additionally, vultures from larger markets will claim ownership of your deals given the fact that there are limited prospects. This will effect how you are commissioned. Significantly. Be prepared to be baffled by how such a large organization can make up rules along the way and permit a canabalistic sales culture.