Working at CoStar Group — Reviews by Employees

Another manager quit in Maryland.....

Pay and Benefits are ok, as is the location, but the rest is horrible. Extreme turnover. Middle management has no respect for their bosses (I don't respect them either, but a manager should NEVER make derogative comments about their bosses to subordinates), but then again, the director calls himself KennyPoo, so what can you say.

My Co-workers make great friends, but I wouldn't call too many competent.

What a joke to ask about career potential, all the good people quit or get fired.

If you like high turnover, daily change in policy, meaningless meetings and a thankless job this is the place for you.

I think Nancy Pelosi has a higher approval rating is higher than this place.

Worst. Company. Ever.

This place is ridiculous! Not only does every office in the USA working on Power Broker Awards, but on top of that, we have TWO OTHER PROJECTS!! They need to have a team of people doing "projects" only! And now Market Reports will be here in a few weeks! Can't they make a group of people that handle market reports and Power Brokers? Researchers and managers don't get paid enough to do this stuff!

Ex-employees from the San Diego office who are interested in the class action lawsuit regarding overtime and labor violations please contact Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik in San Diego. We need everyone's voice to be heard.

I work in field research, and I have to say this is the most laid back job I have ever had. It's especially nice because field researchers only have to deal with one person (their managers) and if you have a good manager (which I do) it's especially easy. I may not get paid as much as the office folks but from the looks of this website I think I'll take my lower paycheck over what you all have to go through. In all seriousness though, my apologies to you people who work in Columbia and Bethesda, it sounds like working in the office for this company really sucks.

A war of attrition

I used to like Costar but now I only like the people I work with not the Company. They do not appreciate the most important department in the company and nothing is going to change. We seem to be dispensable, training classes going on monthly to replace the next person they can get rid of. Forget about the clients complaining about a new RA every quarter.

I really want to vent about how my friends have all been fired for just trying to compete. True they attempted to cheat the system but people want bonus since we can’t seem to get a raise. They say its not about the points, its about quality. Who are they kidding? People are getting employee of the month (especially January, the worst decision ever!!!) and getting promoted for putting garbage in the database. Please look at what the people are adding…someone please!!!! Others, like myself are struggling to stay out of the bottom, off PIP, and do an honest job or get fired. Management act like they don’t see the crap people are doing and if they don’t like you the next quarter you may be gone. You’re only as good as your last quarter and kissing ass will get you far in this company.

Hey Rookie who likes her job- I agree with the other comment, work here for a year and deal with the crap we deal with then you'll hate your job too. Trust me, everyone is looking- and I know some managers are looking too cause they have told their teammates this- of course, this is "rumor" but I think upper management needs to open their eyes and see which manager is looking for jobs too. Managers are nice 100% as a person, but some managers just can't manage at all- they don't lead by example (i.e. making too many personal phone calls at their desk but then gets pissed that we take one personal call and we don't even sit at our desk, we walk away from our desk to go to a break room or outside).

All these ACS Leads, COMPS, calls, etc... too much to handle esp when they want calls more than a minute. I take my time in the morning or afternoon to work on ACS leads and calls ARE NEVER over a minute! UG

Actually, I wish they would have those meetings during my lunch time. I wouldn't loose an hour from my day. If you're going to pull us away from the floor, remove that hour from our production time. I hate always having to sacrifice my metrics for dumb stuff: mentoring, day-in-the-life shadowing, center meetings, and Jenny TV.

If you actually read what some of these posts say, you'll learn a lot. There's a tremendous amount of wasted time with this company. Most, if not all communication can be handled through email... concise emails.

Not to get off topic, but, if you’re going to send us meeting minutes for a 45 minute meeting, why would we have the meeting to begin with? I guarantee that 99% of the office started reading the first few lines then deleted the email. If it was a strategy meeting, I understand… send the minutes. But, this… this… most of this center meeting was wasted time. Why would I want to waste more time reading the meeting minutes?

I was a newbie once, and I thought that this was a great job. The pay is less than I'm used to, but that's what a recession is about. Trust me, if you’re writing something good about the Columbia Center it’s because of one of these three reasons: you’re management, you’re new, or you’re a masochist.