CoStar Group reviews

The main con I have really comes down the lack of respect the company has shown to its employees. For years, employees have asked for the ability to be able to work from home (not every day just the occasional one when needed), by almost every metric that costar loves to track the pandemic proved we could do that, and after a half hearted vaccination incentive program (where the winners were high ranking members of the company) the company said everyone needed to be in the office 5X a week after Memorial Day weekend. If you needed an exemption you had two weeks to figure it out. There was a lot of jaw dropping when we were told this. Respect also comes from making sure your teams are fully staffed. It’s a constantly growing company with way too many objectives it tries to accomplish at once. For example, I received a different role late last year, and was told my old position would be backfilled. I spent more than half a year simultaneously working both roles. Unless you have been at the company a decade or more its very hard to progress in your career at CoStar. Yes you might get a lateral promotion here and there, but when it comes to one day managing and leading people expect the company to go outside the firm to find them. Once they are hired very rarely will their “best practices” be implemented because the costar way is the only way.

The CEO is an unhinged dictator & this trickles down to all levels of leadership. Costar is eager to preach a narrative of diversity and acceptance at the workplace, but when called into practice those sentiments seem to be either exclusive or superficial at best. I was terminated for not getting vaxxed after being a top performer in the department for years. They say they are not forcing it, but they are unwilling to make any accommodations even to those with religious or medical exemptions - breaking Virginia Law! I see HR commenting in the other reviews that they are not forcing, but that is a blatant lie. How can you all deny you are forcing it? You are requiring employees to come back to the office, in order to come to the office you need the vaxx, & if you don’t come to the office, you are terminated. There is no choice here. You are being deceitful. They do not care about their employees. Even if you are the best employee, they will soon forget about you & throw you to the side. Don’t walk, RUN. If you absolutely have to take this job, keep it for 6 months max while you look for something else. You deserve better.