Company Dying - Research Associate CoStar Group Employee Review

1.0
Aug 6, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Salary Free tea/coffee and fresh fruit

Cons

Riduculous targets. Data company with o data target and main focus on calls that need to be over 90 secs. The data is suffering and the clients are noticing. Barely any information being added now and the quality of the data have diminished dramatically in the past year and a half. No wonder the clients are cancelling. CoStar will not have a presence in the UK in the next few years.

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CoStar Group Response
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Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback, it really is appreciated. I hope that you also participated in our Employee Engagement survey last month. In regards to clients cancelling, our recent 10-q filing for the second quarter of 2018 would show otherwise: “For the six months ended June 30, 2018 our contract renewal rate for existing CoStar subscription-based services on annual contracts was approximately 91%, consistent with the six months ended June 30, 2017”. If you would like to discuss this or any of your other concerns further, I encourage you to reach out to your manager, your HR representative, or me directly. Brad McGetrick

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Cons

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