Pros
-CoStar is an amazing company in the sense of the services they provide to the CRE industry, but internally it is much less amazing -Solid pay for difficulty of work -Strict 8 hours, don't have to take any work home with you -All expenses paid training -Free avocados
Cons
-Although this position requires a 4-year degree, you will quickly learn that your education is absolutely useless here; anybody can be trained to do this job -The metrics are unrealistic; depending on your portfolio and market you are either set up to succeed or to fail. You can work your butt off but if you have a difficult portfolio, you will not meet your metrics. -There is an extreme lack of communication between middle-management and researchers with things constantly changing without the changes being communicated -You are made to feel completely disposable and unvalued, they do not think twice before firing people, often without good reason -They are very misleading during the interview process, stating that "every research research associate starts at the same annual salary, paid hourly," when in reality the researchers in Richmond get paid 20% more for doing the exact same job in a city where the cost of living is significantly lower than DC, San Diego, & Toronto -You are also led to believe that you will learn a lot about the CRE industry when in reality you will only learn some very basic key terms that most people with any CRE knowledge already know