CoStar Group Reviews

Pros

Excellent Products, collaborative culture, smart people, management cares about the employees.

Cons

Office location is downtown, so commuting might be longer.

Pros

Great benefits and the people you will work with are some of the best. Depending on the department you are in, the work life balance can be easy to manage.

Cons

The company as a whole and upper management do not care nor do they seek to understand what is going on in multiple departments. Especially those that seem to be "lower on the totem pole" in the company. Transparency & communication are nonexistent. Changes that are made from the top down are sent with no explanation or consideration of its effects on their employees. Advancement opportunities are few and in between unless you have well over the amount of years of experience in whatever you are trying to transition into next. Opportunities to grow skillset are solely your responsibility and that still isn't enough. There is no path or support to lead in the direction of your interest. Overall poor planning for employee advancement. They only care about the betterment of the company.

Pros

* Decent pay * If you want to rest and vest and do what your "technical" manager that hasn't programmed in literal years tells you it is a pretty stable gig; people will be amazed if you work past 6 * If you like scrum-thats-actually-waterfall with _all_ the trimmings and want to work for a strictly microsoft shop, this is the place for you * Despite the fossilized nature of how they develop their software, their devops teams are extremely competent at running things on AWS

Cons

* Their healthcare plan excludes LGBTQ+ people, the "diversity" they preach is a farce * Product deadlines are determined by overworked sales people desperately trying to make insane quotas * "We've always run our infrastructure this way, it worked back when we had 1,000 customers, why would it fall over when we have several times that?" * If you need to do anything cross functional you need to stroke the egos of lead CSS developers that can barely write a for loop * Have a new product idea? Great! Let's put it at the end of the 3 year backlog because that's the agile way to develop software!

Pros

-pretty great coworkers -for the most part, everyone is helpful and friendly and has your best interest in mind.

Cons

-Some people get paranoid about losing deals and people trying to sell over them but its part of the environment that has been created in the sales department based on things like ecoms (where a client just signs up online instead of through you-you will never really get credit for those deals) and to get as many transactional deals as possible. -Upper Management seems to care more about keeping the shareholders happy than their employees -CEO and upper management have created an unhealthy work environment -(Upper management) had created a poor work environment by micromanaging daily at the start of Q1 2021, Upper management (C level executives) created this environment. Middle/Lower Management (Inside sales managers, Regional directors) are just following orders and whats asked of them. -CEO and other C level executives regularly ridicule reps on all hands sales meetings by playing their calls on them and ripping them apart. Rarely is the feedback positive. Typically focus on the negatives -A lot of employees were anxious and constantly on edge because they didn't know if they would get let go at any moment.

Pros

I was lucky enough to have a decent boss. Not common. Work/life balance. Benefits are good but not great. You’ll learn once you start job hunting after training. If you are looking to get your feet wet in CRE then it’s not bad. No trouble finding a better job with CoStar on your resume. It’s actually a positive. Pay is okay as long as you are promoted quickly but caps out fast. Depends on how you look at it but the job is insanely easy. Use the education reimbursement benefit and earn your graduate degree. Maybe takes 2-4 hours each day to do your job well so you have plenty of time to complete homework. Nice colleagues.

Cons

Extreme Micromanagement and heavily metric oriented. All about calls. Became much worse when working remotely. They track every click and scroll even if you are hitting metrics. Causing unnecessary stress for such a mindless job. If you like being treated like a child you’ll love working here. Forced return to office with no remote option. So ridiculous as it was proven productivity isn’t negatively impacted. I get they are a Pseudo CRE company but no one is forcing you to give up your offices. No need force people back. They’ll just have to learn the hard way once more people start leaving. Too much opportunity out there with remote infrastructure build out. Great time to look elsewhere. Feel bad for those still there spending money to commute to work everyday and losing valuable time they could be spending with family or enjoying life. CoStar is basically like going to a JC before university. Nobody wants to be there but once you’re in you have to put work in to move somewhere worthwhile. Wouldn’t recommend sticking around more than a 1-2 max unless you’re promoted quickly or move into another department or role like analytics. In San Diego they don’t care about you because bright people don’t work as an RA very long. Those that have tenure are basically stuck or comfortable. Not very motivating. Work with a lot of “duds”. Even Management. (Not Craig, he’s great) It’s discouraging. Didn’t know how much I would appreciate working with bright, motivated, and well compensated colleagues until I moved on to another company. I also learned how awesome it is to work for a company that listens to feedback and trusts their employees. It’s almost too good to be true and they are out there. Most at CoStar in San Diego are the kind of people who enjoy their safe little job where they can punch-in/punch-out the go home to their suburb or small apartment/studio. Can’t afford much here in San Diego on their hourly if you’re single and want to live alone. Even at the highest level of RA you might be able to afford a one or two bedroom in a desirable neighborhood without roommates. That’s of course subject to your standards. Dead end career path for most. Some interesting opportunities do arise but you will need to move departments or leverage experience into landing a better gig elsewhere. If you need money and basic experience I can’t fault you for taking the job but have a plan to get out.

Pros

Good Pay Great Benefits Coworkers in office

Cons

Higher management unwilling to listen to employees No work from home options in sight even when we saw growth while working from home 12 hour work days sometimes

Pros

They make a good product.

Cons

The cons are many. The treatment of that sales staff is agregus and archaic. This is a company that still figures out the monthly commissions on an excel spreadsheet. The commision plan changes every year and very few understand it, management included. The company has numerous ways to reduce your commission, here are a few examples which reduced my commission: a 15 year client retired, a company in my book of business merged with a company that was not in my book of business,(negative net effect over $10K), a single use client died - I was penalized and I even sent to company the obituary. In the 48 plus months of working there, only 3 months had correct commision statements. The onus is completely on you to catch the mistakes and correct them. Then you must follow up to make sure it is correct - then there is no guarantee that the correction will be properly reflected in your next payment. It once took me 4 months to get the proper commission payout. The bottom line is - if you don't find a mistake in your numbers it is because you didn't look. There are many other reasons this company is a revolving door. The commision structure is just one - a big one. I stayed way too long. It never got better. So do yourself a favor, skip this sales job and keep looking.

Pros

Great product Great colleagues 401K matching

Cons

Toxic company culture in my opinion Lack of development and advanced opportunities for women and people of color in my opinion No remote work No work life balance in my opinion

Pros

- Interesting product - Working with a lot of smart folks - Good work/life balance with low turnover - Good Benefits

Cons

- Could have better internal processes - Better career growth paths