Leave a good glassdoor review if you want to get a free car - Anonymous CoStar Group Employee Review

1.0
Jul 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

How much money do you spend on snacks? $3 a day? Like everyone else here I will say the biggest pro is free juice and snacks. But if the best thing about the company works out to $3 a day is it really a pro?

Cons

#1 costar is a data company. Manipulating data os our specialty. Look very closely at the glassdoor reviews. Scroll back. Look at the graph showing historic ratings. One day out of the blue 6 vice presidents and all their direct reports left 5 star reviews. Since then the company has held cash bonuses and even teslas ( why is the ceo obsssed with tesla??? ) as lottery prizes to incentivize 4 and 5 star glassdoor reviews. Because it is easier and cheaper than fixing the problems and because most of the people they want to hire will not look past the star rating at the top of the page. Ignore job titles when searching reviews. Thousands of Researchers just had their name changed to Marketing Consultant. Photographers had their job changed to Field Researcher. Poof! Now when I see a job opening and research it there are no negative reviews for Marketing Consultant. Like a bad restaurant changing names to hide from Yelp.

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CoStar Group Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback about your experience at CoStar Group. We are sorry to hear that your experience working here has been less than ideal. While it’s never easy to hear negative feedback, we take both the positive and negative reviews seriously and use them to evaluate where we’re getting it right and where there are opportunities to improve. Specifically to your comments about incentivized Glassdoor reviews: We, of course, appreciate when employees share their positive experiences with the company, but all reviews listed on this site are 100% voluntary and are provided by willing, real, current and prior CoStar Group employees. No reviews listed were written in a false manner in an effort to inflate ratings. The Teslas you mention were given to our Hall of Fame sales force during this year’s Sales Conference and were a recognition of years’ worth of hard work, outstanding performance, and dedication to CoStar Group. Additionally, a change in title is simply a reflection of evolving business priorities and refocusing job functions and duties. While data and research are the foundation of our business, marketing services have become increasingly important to our customers and the commercial real estate industry. For this reason, we elevated the titles of our researches to better reflect the core responsibilities of the position. We value all of our employees and the work they do to make our entire organization successful. If you would like to follow up on any of the concerns you addressed and provide additional detail, please reach out to your manager or email HRdepartment[at]costar.com.

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