CoStar Group reviews

2.7

34% would recommend to a friend

(3,015 total reviews)
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Andrew C. Florance

32% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

CoStar Group has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,015 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The CoStar Group employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Nov 20, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good location. Nice office space at HQ, especially for a glorified call center. Some employees are very bright and committed and try to do the best job they can despite the insanity of a "metric driven" company.

Cons

Only one example is necessary to underscore the dysfunctionality of the organization. The CEO decided to create his own building rating system that would change the Class A, B, and C normally used to 1-5 stars. Not a big deal you say. To accomplish the task, he put all 700 of his researchers on the assignment for three solid weeks. Not a big deal you say. Each of those 700 researchers had to validate the ratings of 4,600 properties (4 million in total). I'll save you the math. That works out to be an average of 90 seconds per property, every minute of every day for the 3 weeks. Let me be clear, not a few hours a day, not even half days, but every 90 seconds for 8 hours a day for 3 weeks. Take a break to get coffee, and that put you behind. The metrics (this is what it means to be a metric driven company) were being watched live to make sure there were no slackers. So how did it turn out? Almost no training of the employees made any consistency questionable. Perhaps this was all worth it, but what company owner would divert his whole staff to a task of this magnitude with no real training, and here's the rub, expect them to keep up with their normal workload.

1.0
Nov 18, 2012

Shady Business

Recommend
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Pros

I have made some good friends there. Rooftop penthouse is a decent perk in the summer.

Cons

This job sucks the life out of you. It's hard to take pride in your hard work when management always makes you feel like your best is never good enough. The wrong people usually get priased; those who come from money, who's parent's arte brokers in the DC area, or who obviously cheat to make their numbers look better than others. It makes it hard to be an honest worker, because no one appreciates it. This company is all about the numbers by ANY means necessary.

3.0
Oct 30, 2012

Great place to make friends

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and efforts to create engaging social atmosphere but it needs to come from the top, not just from those employed to do damage control

Cons

I have tried looking past how stressful the work atmosphere can be with unrealistic goals that you get constantly confronted for obviously not being able to meet because of the people that do care enough to put a lot of effort into employee engagement and benefits. The office was on liberal leave the past 2 days during what was supposed to be a hurricane--most of the area was fine, but in a city like DC, employees commute from all over and surely some were actually affected. Most importantly, almost all employees use public transportation which was shut down. Instead of feeling sorry for most employees being forced to use vacation time and not be normally paid for 2 days, the CEO sent out a company-wide email "thanking" the employees who did make it in "despite drizzle and 12 mph winds". If he only had access to public transportation and made $40,000 I wonder what he would have done. I don't have any hard feelings and do like my job and what I have gotten out of my experience, but I hope he regrets the diction in his email and realizes that just because he doesn't depend on public transportation doesn't mean the employees that drive his company don't.

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