Vantaggi
Great colleagues (you bond with them over how dreadful the day to day is) Above average starting pay for people in their 20s.
Svantaggi
Everyday at CoStar is a fire drill. Upper management has an obsession with phone calls to he point where clients routinely question why we call so much. Even if you have a great manager (I was fortunate enough to have one), the micromanagement that trickles down from the top permeates all levels of the company. Your entire day is monitored and everything you do is a metric. If you ever socialize with coworkers after work, the only thing that is discussed is how much everyone hates their jobs. There is no point in questioning the metrics or why there is such an obsession with phone calls. A former manager told me several times in private that the metrics make no sense and to just try and get as many pointless 90 second calls as possible to make directors happy. The job became even more unbearable in the past year because of insane turnover. Every team is severely understaffed. The company’s reputation makes hiring enough people to keep up with attrition very challenging.