Not worth your soul - Tenant Researcher CoStar Group Employee Review

2.0
Aug 5, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay & benefits especially for an entry level position. This was a much better place & environment when I started 3 years ago. I don’t have anymore pros.

Cons

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.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

they fly you to richmond for two weeks and pay most expenses which is cool, job is very easy. the pay is decent, benefits are also decent, work life is also good.

Cons

if this is your only opportunity take it. this is not a real 'research' job. its where uber meets data entry. you drive around in an obnoxious and embarrasing looking costar wrapped car, TRESSPASSING into buildings. you report the tenants inside buildings. people think its weird and its hard to explain. If you decide not to tresspass, you will not hit your metrics and youre suceptible to a layoff. They train you in one way, and weekly seem to change up SOPs. So its not uncommon to fail an assignment due to a sudden 'change' in SOPs. Again, another excuse for the HR department to lay you off. The field research department gets rehired and cut every 3-4 years or so. So dont plan on this JOB being a career. you will not work at a desk, so youll be eating at gas stations (and using the bathroom there.) If youre a social person this job is not for you. You can go days without speaking to anyone else at work. Ive never met most of the people in my market.

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