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CoStar Group – “I ESCAPED COSTAR AND SO SHOULD YOU!!!

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Nov 19, 2008

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CoStar Group Research Associate in White Marsh, MD:   (Past Employee - 2008)

Pros

Pay is fair, location was good. However my advise to you is RUN as fast as you can. You will find that the minute you walk in the door there is no such thing as job security or even job discription. No matter how bad you need a job right now, you are better off working at McDonalds fipping burgers. Trust me!!!!

Cons

Change, change and oh did I say change. They change their minds, rules and metrics faster and more often than I change my underware. Be prepared to get dizzy and never measure up. BTW dont bring anything personal from home to put on your desk, most people get discharged without warning and your stuff gets left on your desk. Management will tell you that your friends got fired for performance, but you can see the public metrics for yourself, and your friend was doing better than center standards. No rhyme or reason for the disposable empolyee mentality. STRESS STRESS and more STRESS to meet goals and oh btw, even if you are doing better than your manager asked you to, if someone else does better than you, you end up on the bottom of the metrics and therefore you dont get a bonus and can get fired. Where else can you meet and even exceed the company goals and still get fired because others did better?

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to school. You need some serious training in managment. For real, a good idea to create a company does not a good CEO make. Get some training.

Comment (1)

Dec 12, 2008

by Former Employee:

I saw people who did get a bonus still get fired all the time. It's ironic that a company would give someone a bonus for achieving high standards and then fire them for not meeting metrics. One guy in April even got over a 10% raise and was fired less than a week later for not meeting standards.
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www.costar.com
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1000 to 5000 Employees, $212M+ Revenue
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Bethesda, MD
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