Working at CoStar Group — Reviews by Employees

So its been about a year since I last worked here. Honestly one of the most miserable experiences of my life. Stay far away. No respect given at all. It sickens me when I think of my workdays there.

There is only one thing to say about the star: This company ruins lives!

If you make it to your vesting date, things will go downhill from there. Costar promotes those who are social butterflies. Then when people get fired, they sit them across from the claimant (ex-employee) at the unemployment hearing when they try to deny benefits. Pretty slimy?

To bad your directors and HR shills have a bit of a heart and never put up good arguments at the hearing! They've lost a bunch of 'em lately!

Costar is a boat that's taking on water. It's a sinking ship. Employees and ex-employees (who refuse to be intimidated) hate this company. Don't believe me? Check out the last quarterly report!

Do yourselves a favor and get out, before you get fired. Yes, trust me, this company WILL find a reason to fire you.

You know your company sucks balls when the only thing you have to look forward to is a settlement payout won by a former employee that sued the company.

You know your company sucks balls when employees are so fed up they quit their job even with nothing else lined up and in the worst economy since the great depression.

You know you company sucks balls when they have a 92% renewal rate, just purchased a 10 story class A office building, and three other companies, yet tell employees they have no money for raises.

WTH happened to CM in WM? And I heard in the C office that one of the new managers quit... HR was the guy's name.

I know everyone knows that DN from LCOMPS quit/fired cause he didn't want his name on the LCOMPS product cause he thought it was GARBAGE. I don't blame him, I wouldn't want my name on there either!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Signs you work in a fear based workplace:

Numbers rule. Sensible performace goals help people understand what's important. An absession with metrics, daily, weekly, and hourly, and a world view that says an employee is the sum of his numeric goals, are signs of a fear-based culture. Why? A healthy organization builds performance goals into its leadership framework, but the metrics don't equal the framework. When management views people as complex, creative multifaceted value producers and considers metrics as just one element of a well-rounded leadership program, you can beat the fear back to a tolerable level.

Chief executives know in their hearts that smart people, set loose to solve big problems, are responsibly for every success and innovation industry has ever seen. Fear-trampled employees don't do a thing for your business. Still, management by fear is a hard habit to break, because fear-whipped underlings don't squawk. Meanwhile, your competitors may be hiring your best talent away and stealing market share while you make it easy for them to do so. Those meek, submissive, broken-down employees might blossom in your rival's trust-based culture. Do you really want to find out?

I love Costar and everyone should joing this company if they are able to pass the strict interview process and screening. I used to work at McDonalds but they picked me up and I'm now a Research Associate doing professional stuffs! I like making phone calls to strangers even if they yell at me. It's totally rad! And who doesn't like watching the Jenny Kitchen videos although there's no cooking involved. I thought it was suppose to be a cooking show and the broad in it looks like she could cook and the name is very misleading. However none of that matters because CoStar is number one and our competitors stand no chance and all their base are belong to us.

Horrible place. I come home so stressed out every day. A lot of people have to take "mental health days" from this place. Too many 'micro-managers' here - tho not all of them. Some actually fight for you which are the ones that hate their jobs too. Dont even bother trying to get promoted cause it is all about favoritism.

Anyone want to spill what happened in Field Research today? Another one bites the dust?

Yes, the sorry shills at costar monitor this site and glas-do-r like mad. They take down anything that they don't like. Sad company with sad management. It's ok, this sad company will pay its' dues in time, just wait.

They've gotten rid of a bunch of good people recently. RAs that have been with the company for 5+ years.

If you think you've got job security because you're doing well, in time, metrics will be changed so that you won't meet them. I thought I could adapt to all the crazy metrics too, and I did. So what does costar do when that happens, they find a technicality to fire you for (i.e. if you don't leave an activity - fired, add a listing that gets changed from multifamily to res - fired). This shameless company will manipulate things to get rid of good people. But recently they were taught a lesson.

A paycheck only...if you are looking for a rewarding work experience, this is not it. Don't know how they do it, but feedback on CoStar is removed from JobVent on a regular basis. No job security, no respect, there used to be some good people here, but they are long gone. Like so many others I wonder when there will be sublet space added to CoStar to represent the space they currently occupy.