Absolutely disgusting excuse of an abysmal company. - Anonymous employee CoStar Group Employee Review

We do not require anyone in our Community Research roles to have advanced degrees. As that is not a requirement, a person who has multiple college degrees and accepted the role should not be surprised to find colleagues who have not reached the same level of education as them. As one of the newest additions to our Research department, Community Research begins with contracted employees provided by an agency, which should have fully explained the nature of the job when they offered you the position. At CoStar Group we are proud to have employees from all different levels of education and those with varied work experience, which is why we are not going to refuse a person with multiple degrees from an entry level position if that is the role they have come to us for. Saying that it insults your intelligence to work with someone who has a high school diploma doesn’t offend this company so much as it offends the colleagues you speak of. Community researchers receive weekly bonuses for excelling in their duties, many of which reach those marks regularly and as a result see that extra monetary compensation beyond their regular pay for doing a great job on a weekly basis. We hope our community researchers are able to see that as recognition. CoStar Group cares deeply about its employees, and while we do have to get actual work done while we’re in the office, the Community Research management team is constantly developing new things to help colleagues work together and enjoy their time in the office more – including team trivia challenges, team lunches, birthday celebrations and more. Recently the office gave away Atlanta Hawks tickets along with many other prizes as part of its ongoing recognition initiatives. It’s difficult to have office happy hours because we have about 80 community researchers who work hours later in the day who would be unable to attend any happy hours at all, and that would be unfair. We don’t want to give additional offers to one shift group that we can’t give the equivalent to for others, but employees are always welcome to set up non-sponsored CoStar Group events on their own to collaborate with their colleagues. The majority of our community researchers continue to be contractors – and the nature of that means not everyone stays around. But we notice good work and want to keep those who appear to enjoy the job as well, with new opportunities to apply for a full-time position and join the Research career path every six to eight weeks for community researchers.