A stepping stone career - Anonymous employee CoStar Group Employee Review

3.0
May 9, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Learn how to make cold calls and deal with rejection. Good job for someone straight out of college. Decent pay and great benefits.

Cons

Company micro manages everything. No real growth inside the company.

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CoStar Group Response
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Thank you for leaving a review and for the work you do. We agree that CoStar can give you a great start in CRE. We also encourage employees to advance internally, hundreds of CoStar employees have also gone on to lead successful careers inside the company. In fact, the head of the research team began her career at CoStar as a field researcher.

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