CoStar Group Interview Questions & Reviews in Washington, DC Area

Interview Details – Very simple and to the point. They will ask about your resume and your interest in commercial real estate.

Negotiation Details – There were no negotiations. They gave a number and it was take it or leave it.

Interview Details – For background, was recruited after applying over Linked In. Started with email contact by recruiter, who was nice. interviewed with recruiter over the phone first. Since they're a DC based company and i don't live there (about 300 miles away) they offered to fly me down there. i just had to get interviewed over the phone by a manager. went through that and set up flight. this was then taken away from me for unexplained reasons. i moved on, but then a week later i got called again by the same recruiter saying they wanted to fly me down now. so they flew me down and put me into a hotel room for the night.

interview process goes from 9:30am to 2:00pm in one of the nicest office buildings ever right in the heart of dc within a 1/3 of a mile of 4 metro lines. interviewed first by manager, who would be your direct boss. was nice, young, and very friendly. next they put you on the floor with a Research Associate. he explains the basics, tests you on excel skill, (using it is important to job), puts you through a mock call, was a nice chill guy. my final interview was with your bosses boss. he was professional, as every was, but not as friendly.

This was unfortunately not a happy office, no one there really wanted to be there. the first two people i interviewed with said "yeah, this place isn't great like a lot of other places, but hey, it's a job!" needless to say that was the theme. come work here, we pay well and you can be in our fancy office! lots of great perks! but the office environment was just about as sad as could be found. a place where dreams go to die, everyone who worked there had a story of not finding a job in their major (history, creative writing, JD's, they take all sorts) so they ended up there.

Interview Details – It starts off with a phone interview asking you the traditional interview questions. After screening you to make sure you're not totally incompetent, they either send you to an on-campus interview session or straight through to HQ.

While their new "state-of-the-art building" is a wow-factor going in, you'll get a sense that something is amiss in the company. The research director was incredibly honest with me in saying they had a very high attrition/turnover rate within the first year. I think he said the number for research associate was 70% if not higher. There is a good reason for that. It seemed like a job you would get bored at very quickly. The pay may be high but the reason they do this is to try and incentivize better workers who won't shirk.

I was almost highly impressed by CoStar until I got through the final round of interviews. I was told I would receive a final decision within the week. I waited a week- no answer. I waited two weeks and placed a call to check in with them and they said they'd call me back which they did not. After finally a little over a month, I call for what was at least the fifth time only to be told that I was qualified for the position but that I was not "passionate enough" about the job and that I didn't give enough details about my experience. Maybe it was because I was recovering from the flu going in. But if you have enough passion for real estate, cold calling and sales, and can convince yourself that you want to stay here for more than a year- then have at it. But don't say the reviews didn't warn you.

Interview Details – I randomly ran into a recruiter as he walked out the building in DC. I had a quick interview via phone with him. Then I was brought to the dc headquarters for a day long interview process which included 2 interviews, lunch, a building tour, and a 'side by side' with a current researcher.

Interview Details – I was recruited on campus my senior year where I had a half hour interview. Then I was brought to the dc headquarters for a day long interview process which included 2 interviews, lunch, a building tour, and a 'side by side' with a current researcher.

Interview Details – Informal Phone Interview. If you pass you get to the next step of an In person interview with 3 parts: Sit side by side with an RA, Interview with a Research Manager, Interview with a Research Director.

Negotiation Details – None.

Interview Details – 1st Round - In person interview with a manager and a research associate at my University.

2nd Round - Consisted of three face-to-face interviews

- 1st with two Research Managers
- 2nd side-by-side with a current Research Associate that involved excel tests and they made me do two sample phone calls on the spot
- 3rd with one of the C-level executives (the easiest)

Reason for Declining – I realized the job was not as described. You are not truly doing research, you are making calls and being measured heavily using a metrics system. I found all of this out through reviews on glassdoor.com and doing other research. This job is similar to a high pressure sales job, and that is not what I was interested in doing.

Interview Details – 1st Round - Phone Interview with HR recruiter (if pleased they will ask you to come in on the phone at that moment) - Basic background questions in reference to education and professional experience. First question was, "Why do you want to work in commercial real estate?"

2nd Round - Consisted of three face-to-face interviews

- 1st with one of the many Research Managers
- 2nd side-by-side with a current Research Associate
- 3rd with one of the many Directors of Research

Group tour with other applicants at the end of the interviews...

Reason for Declining – Could not match prior pay, vague in regards to future growth, would not allow relocation to another one of their offices.

Interview Details – Very straight forward interviews. They make you do a mock call to one of the other researchers. Basically just reading off a script. Stay calm and ask all your questions that you are given for the mock call and you will do fine.

Negotiation Details – No negotiating. They will pay you $40,000 and you will accept or they will move down the line. This place brings people in on an assembly line. You are not valued.