CoStar Group reviews

Big Brother like. VERY metrics driven, everything must be entered & tracked in their CRM system. Loved the training department, but felt they seemed disorganized... Not sure an entire 3 weeks++ away from the field was totally necessary. Some things could have been condensed into fewer days. Additionally, if we completed the days activities by 4:45m, why not let us leave? We felt that we were kept there till 5:30 to placate management.

-Telemarketing type work although not properly defined on the actual job description or interview -It is truly not "research' or analytics. You never have the opportunity to really dive down on the true market data and study any CRE trends, this is due to the 2min call matrix that you have to meet daily. So you constantly find yourself, dialing or leaving voice-mail and not doing any meaningful work. No meaningful research, just data input. You get a broker on the phone, ask the scripted questions, if you forget to ask something you get a bad quality assurance score. And you dial again, and do the same thing again. Over and Over and Over. -Busy work, and no acknowledgment in return -Late or not paid out bonuses despite the immense work that you put in during a certain quarter -It is a cut-throat environment, you can sense the tension on the research floor daily -Every Spring, there is a massive lay off, known as "Spring cleaning" by Costar terms. It is pathetic, the terms in which they fire an employee -Very high turn-over rate, more spend on recruiting then ensuring your current employees are satisfied -You're the front face of Costar, consistently branding however sales gets the actual credit/pay if a client subscribes -Environment can get quite unprofessional. While, I enjoyed company HH, drinking with your boss and then showing up the next day hungover is not your ideal professional environment. A lot of managers drink with their employees. Granted, the managers are immature and most of them are previous researchers in their early-mid 20s. -Hard to interrupt brokers from their daily tasks to call and update on the phone every month for a property that is still on market and nothing has changed with the listing especially if that broker has 30+ listings -Micromanagement to the core -No respect for researchers. Ex. A broker was very rude, and used profanity with me over a call to which then I had to respond by disconnecting the conversation. Once discussed with the manager, she criticized me on having ended the conversation, despite the fact that I had asked the broker politely to please not use profanity -If you miss a day because you are sick or you want to take a personal day, everyone thinks you were interviewing with another company