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      CoStar Group

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      CoStar Group reviews

      2.7

      34% would recommend to a friend

      (3,014 total reviews)
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      Andrew C. Florance

      32% approve of CEO

      38% positive business outlook

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      CoStar Group has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,014 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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      3K reviews
      1.0
      Jul 26, 2012

      A job for the unemployed, kids and losers.

      Research associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Excellent benefits and facilities. I loved the avocados!

      Cons

      Cons outweigh any benefits by far. Research Associate position is just monkey phone dialing. They just hire kids with no experience because they cannot compare whit any other job. They are easier to make them believe they will develop a career there. They hire anyone who applies. If you are a mid-career pro like me, once you get the job and the first day of work you notice that you were hire along with 24 more people at the same time, in this job market environment, that they are all kids right out of college with no experience, no even a real estate related degree is needed, you will feel really depressed. If you are real estate pro, soon you will notice that your couches don't know anything about real estate. They only know a few basic concepts and terminology and they think the know it all. (that's sad). Leadership, charisma and intelligence are not needed for the job. That would only put you on the spot light (not in the positive way). Don't call people's attention. As someone said before, keep your head down. Try to be unnoticed and don't over think what you have to do. Don't try to do it well because it doesn't matter. If they don't fire you today, they will do it tomorrow. Just make your 40 phone calls per day and you will be safe but if they don't like you, they will find the minimum mistake to fire you. It is to sad the job market is so bad that i ended up here. They really made me believe that could be a good job and the end of a long time looking for one. First mistake, don't get enchanted by their facilities the day off the interview, that means nothing. I was there just for 5 weeks. I didn't get to experience all the terrible things people here is commenting but believe me, it was headed that way. Again, that is not a commercial real estate job. That is a data gathering, entry and telemarketing position. If you are a kid out of college, don't even dare con complain about the job, because it is the right job you for you! for your first job you are suppose to suffer like hell and this is perfect for that. You are fresh, young and you don't know anything better.

      4.0
      Jul 14, 2012

      short

      Marketing solutions sales associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      nice building, good downtown location, free snacks, young workers. you can make good money working in sales ($46,000 to $86,000 for the year). every day you will be challenged. a good environment for professional development.

      Cons

      they fire fast. i worked in sales. for sales, there is not much time for training. they give you two weeks training to figure it out. then you are on the phones and expected to make deals.

      1.0
      Jun 22, 2012

      A Job Not a Career

      Research associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1) Benefits- Good health insurance, healthy food available on every floor, pre- paid metro card, etc. 2) Location- downtown DC, easy access to metro

      Cons

      1) Pay- It's average at best for what you should be making out of college. 2) Management- Everything is micromanaged. 3) Metrics- Impossible to reach..constantly changing...and many times serve no purpose. 4) Career Growth- Does not exist here. This is a job, not a career. You won't know whether to laugh or cry when you realize that every month or so some idiot from outside who has no relation to real estate and has some laughable "management" experience gets hired as your boss when you've been working for 2-3 years and are still referred to as "trainee". It gets even better when you have to teach those same people how to do their jobs...so they can spit in your face and fire you a couple of months later. Basically, in short, you should get here with the expectation that this is a job...you'll never get promoted or develop your career here. My advice is to try to meet the miniumum goals required for you not to get fired. And definitely look for soemthing else...and look hard. Out of most training classes, less than 5% of people will make it past a year. I noticed from personal experience that most of my class was fired, and there was no way you can blame them. They get unreasonable metrics to meet, and get threatned to get fired anyway if they don't meet them. So they get two options...one, cheat...or two, try to meet their goals, fail, get on a PIP, and eventually get fired. The rest of my class were relentlessly looking for other paths, and most found something by year end. So, if you have no other choice, and you just graduated school, with no job or plans, like most college grads in this economy, go for it. Put in your 6 months to a year, try to please senior management, and use this as a stepping stone to something else. But once you do find something else, get out, and do it fast.

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