What is working from home like at CoStar Group?

Chill, good wfb, managers are good

Pay is not good, politics in promotion , no work from home

Pay was increased due to inflation, but being laid-off neutralized it. Some good people work there.

Work-life balance is terrible, no flexibility to work from home, except Fridays. Constant layoffs, changes that are all of the whim of the upper leadership, diversity is non-existent and the company has no culture.

-Pay is above average for the area, that's about it

Where to begin...I can't speak to all departments, this is just the department I was in: -The culture is so metrics driven, it's become irredeemably toxic. The department is being treated like a sales department, despite it not being sales -They have TV screens on the floors showcasing to everyone how close you are to reaching your metrics. They say it's "motivational" but it's really a scare tactic to make you afraid of losing your job -Speaking of losing your job - I had at least 3 coworkers who were fired in the time I worked there for "not meeting their metrics". They were put on performance plans with unreasonable expectations to "bring them back up to goal" and then fired before their performance plans even ran out. How they approach firing people is also questionable, as they call someone into a conference room with HR and then have another individual go to their desk and gather their belongings (which, to be honest, if anyone touched my personal belongings without my permission I would throw a fit) -All of the associates are miserable and on the look out for new jobs. I didn't know a single person who worked there when I did who was happy, and management KNOWS the environment is miserable and toxic and does nothing to change it because it comes from the absolute top and everyone's too afraid to say anything -The managers are so far removed from reality, it's laughable -They monitor badge swipes (to ensure you are working a minimum of 40 hours a week, despite the majority of employees in our department not being hourly), and on the one day you get to work from home they monitor how long you are away from your computer. -If you're sick more than once in a year, be prepared to either come into the office sick or use your limited vacation days. They offer NO flexibility to WFH when sick and you only get 5 sick days annually, so god forbid you're out with the flu once and then catch COVID another time, you better be prepared to not take a vacation that year.

Good Pay, Nice benefits, Steady work, Offers some work from home

Unrealistically data driven, pit employees against one another as motivation, not very understanding

Benefits, Pay, People, PTO, Social events

Commute, No hybrid or work from home options at all, micromanage, the only care about the bottom line and metrics. You will just be a number to them.

Decent pay Good time off policy

Used to be a family owned, now you're just a number Management only looks out for themselves Removed wfh policy, but still expected to do extra work from home

I've had my greatest technical growth at CoStar, their leadership always encouraged me to push myself to become an increasingly capable engineer. If your goal is to learn as much as you can in the vast landscape that is DevOps, CoStar is for you. But you need to be patient, as there are so many different technologies to learn when working here. But overall, if you prioritize collaboration and learning the latest and greatest in DevOps technologies with solid support, CoStar is the place for you.

They track your ins and outs when in the office to ensure you are there for 8 hours on office days, but it's not so bad since it's hybrid and you get Monday and Friday to work from home.

The only benefits are that they do pay quite well, the view from The Shard is gorgeous and you'll make friends for life as you will be bonded from the mutual trauma. If you can survive CoStar, you can survive anything, I feel proud I made it to 2 years.

It's hard to know where to start in summarising why working in CoStar's sales team is so awful but I will try. Inhuman attitude and lack of empathy is not only accepted, but seen as a benefit in climbing the corporate ladder, get used to being spoken to like a child and treated like you are unworthy. There is NO opportunity to execute any flexible working hours, if you have a kid, you won't be dropping them off at school or going to their sports day or even taking them to the dentist in an emergency, unless you want to take annual leave or emergency unpaid leave. And you will never, ever work from home and asking to do so would responded to in a similar way I can imagine asking to leave prison early. Monday is call day, where you are micromanaged into making as many calls and book in as many new opportunities as possible, it's intense, it's stupid, it's forced and everyone spends the whole day faking their day to tick the box. It's wholly a depressing waste of everyone's time and hideous start to the working week. New business bookings ONLY count on a Monday and it's encouraged to call each others clients, hunger games style. The rest of the week is equally awful, you have to hit a high meeting number (4 per day) and they have to be face to face, and everyone has to be seen every 60 days. You will be running around chasing that number for the next 4 days, no one cares of the client doesn't want a meeting or you may have been given some clients the other side of the country who it's impossible to see, but that's your problem. And there is no time to prepare for these meetings, you'll have to do that in your own time. Middle management have no voice, everything is dictated by America and there is no point giving any opinion or insight, no one cares about anything you have to say, about anything, so just keep your mouth shut. 'Make it make sense' became a common term as the strategies were so off the mark of anything that would make any sense. It's a complicated layer cake of ways to make things as difficult as possible for you, imagine a corporate jumanji. Just when you think you might have made it through the month unscathed and actually get some commission, some fresh hell will appear, usually a last minute teams call entitled 'URGENT UPDATE' drops in at 4pm. Get used to change, as everything will change constantly, about 10% off the time it may work in your favour, so jump on it, because as soon as you start to gain some benefit, it will be changed. Again.

Pay higher than most in area but they know this and use it as leverage

WFH barely exists. Company "gives" 40 hours of work from home. One tone with covid or a sick child and your entire year of time is wiped out.

The company does not withhold salary.

WFH benefits being slashed, poor work life balance, poor job security