CoStar Group reviews

Since I was not in Research, I originally assumed the dreadful treatment so many people wrote about being subject to at the company would not happen to me. Now I know people in all departments and at all levels, including his direct reports, have varying degrees of fear of the CEO. It is well-known that the VPs who manage to survive do so by going along with everything Andy Florance says, deducing what he will be expecting them to claim to believe, looking the other way when he flies off the handle to publicly accuse them or one of their people of being everything from morons to Marxists, and running back to instruct their departments to drop what they were doing to meet his latest demands. Andy seems to love ranting about the “idiocy” of specific employees – both with them in the room and behind their backs. He also revels in telling people they’re fired, and then taking it back, which is not funny considering the number of people who have been fired on a whim because it’s Andy’s company and everyone is replaceable, especially if they are older than 25 and not blond. Andy also enjoys calling on people to answer random questions and then making fun of them and telling them they are stupid for giving the "wrong" answer. The nervous laughter and averted gazes that surround Andy when he’s in these moods are painful to experience. The other issue is the lack of respect the company overall has for the efforts of its people. This is especially true of salaried employees, who have to burn 3 hours of PTO to attend the occasional doctor’s appointment even though they regularly work 12+ hours/day. The joke is that CoStar’s idea of work-life balance is that they bring in free yoga a couple times a week so you can practice improving your balance for an hour and then get back to work.