Sad for the current company - Anonymous employee LoopNet Employee Review

2.0
May 23, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Team management is great. Happy hours every Friday. Breakfast Monday and commuter checks

Cons

The have doubled price, cut leads in half, opportunity in half and doubled commission. Oh and we compete with the same leads as other parent company reps. Costar purchased loopnet over a year ago, and everything was fine until January. Costar fired 15 reps some based on performance and some not. When asked what metric they used we were told to go back to work. Then we spent 5 days at a conference where costar management basically told us we had no place in their long term plans. When asked management told us we have a job now so go to work. Since then the company has been bleeding personelle with 2-3 people a week leaving. In march there was a pricing discrepancy and when asked management told us to take advantage of that. In April they announce they were going to take commission away for those sales upward of $1000+ for some people. Only when we petitioned to keep our pay checks did costar finally give in. Culture has changed and it is no longer a good place to work.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Pay is good at the beginning

Cons

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