CoStar Group reviews

You have so many different people watching your every move. Constantly changing and shifting priorities/ad hoc projects and you still have to keep your portfolio up to standard, and write market reports if you want to advance up the RA chain to management. Milk, Milk, Milk that lower level cow for all she's worth. That's what you are when you start. OT is allocated gingerly. It really depends on what is going on in a given year.

Company culture centers on paranoia and upper management is blindly devoted to the CEO and SVP. Small wonder that external executives usually last months, not years, on the job. There is a lot of work to be done to properly align performance and incentives. Sadly, the company has never learned that the results they get will always be what they incentivize, not what they think researchers "should" do. There is very little that is transferable from the research job to working anywhere else. You learn some useful terminology and concepts about the CRE industry, but your responsibilities and goals change so frequently it's hard to have real, quantifiable impact.