only as your last resort - Product Marketing CoStar Group Employee Review

1.0
Aug 12, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Competitive pay, good benefits, great employee stock plan

Cons

How the CHRO and HR are responding to comments on Glassdoor with defensiveness is a perfect example of how this company operates. Complete lack of self awareness, EQ and accountability. This company is imploding. People are being fired on a whim or are leaving in droves because of the full time back to office requirements. It’s bleeding money through attrition. There are so many open roles they can’t fill, but they continue to fire or lose people instead of letting them work from home. The only way you are really allowed to succeed is by being available and committed 24/7. If you are going through big life events (kids or marriage) you will likely be passed over for someone less skilled or less experienced because you are not as available, especially as a woman. Look at upper management’s lack of diversity for evidence. When you’re in the office they track your every move with the keycard, you even have to swipe to leave the garage. The big brother mentality is so intense, people wonder if office conversations are recorded. I’m sure this is also for everyone’s safety, but it’s definitely for more than that. Micromanagement, divisiveness, and fear tactics are celebrated. Executive leadership takes zero accountability for its mistakes and uses scapegoats to distract from their failures. There is no room for creative freedom, being entrepreneurial within the organization nor product innovations and the suggestion of those will get you fired, threatened or the target of public humiliation. All prioritized product work comes down from the very top. Development is too dysfunctional to practice agile methodology and there are not enough resources for some products which suffer massively because the existing resources are spent rushing to integrate newly acquired companies with little to no long term strategy to guide the integration. Further, there is a mass exodus of developers which they have yet to replace. If there is a personnel issue they throw money at it or goes into litigation.

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Here's the deal with working here if you're starting as an Associate Research Consultant. You will do 5 weeks of training 2 weeks in the classroom in which you will undergo two tests that you must pass to continue being employed. Then you will go to the "nest" for three weeks in which you're performance also determines if you will stay. Then you will go to your team where your performance also determines whether or not you'll stay. Everybody knows this is a metric based company and the truth is you can promote quickly if you're numbers are very good. The problem is that a combination of your market/team/managers/portfolio given once you reach the nest all determine how good your score can be. Also a lot of the metrics are pure luck. One of the metrics "CUF" basically means in your portfolio of brokers how many can you talk to on the phone for at least 90 seconds per month and this metric is worth 20% of your score which is odd considering it's luck if these old stuck up brokers pick up the phone or not. If you're smart you will find ways to "game" the system/metrics and rig your score to be higher. A lot of the tactics are hard to learn at first but with time if you're smart you can sneakily rig your score to be higher by frauding the system in certain ways. I was able to learn certain tactics even years ago in the nest that still work although some methods are only applicable depending on the market you are assigned to. If you're smart and sneaky and diligent you can find ways to cheat and make your life easier which I encourage everybody to do. This company is worthless and they do not stand by there employees at all. Only work here for money and benefits.

Cons

The pay and benefits is the only reason people stay at this job. Otherwise it is hell. Constantly being micromanaged and encouraged to do more regarding metrics that continue to become even less obtainable unless you cheat the system in some way which again I encourage although it is difficult and I think most people are not competent/diligent enough to do this consistently without eventually getting caught. The company now doesn't even want to build/accommodate enough parking spaces for employees. Overall it just gets worse and worse.

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