Meh - Research Associate CoStar Group Employee Review

1.0
Dec 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people you meet and work with The free breakfasts

Cons

Everyone above managers and even some managers live with their heads in the clouds. At one point we were getting memos literally every week about what we needed to change. Ridiculous metrics to the point that you could have had a near perfect call with a broker, but then get a 0 score on your evaluation for forgetting to ask one question. Because one question is going to make or break the rest of the work you just did....

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CoStar Group Response
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