Research Associate II - Research Associate II CoStar Group Employee Review

3.0
4 Jun 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

fast paced environment, willing to promote you pretty early on in your career, can build relationships with commercial real estate professionals outside of costar

Cons

research is a daily grind, and it can get frustrating to have a bunch of work that you need to do for your clients, but really all some managers care about is how many calls you get. it is frustrating to have to stop doing work for your paying client to call on people who represent one property in the suburbs just to be able to hit a call metric

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CoStar Group Response
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Thank you for the feedback. Our researchers do a fantastic job of building lasting relationships with many of our clients, while also working tirelessly to improve and expand our information database. From an upper management standpoint we do not evaluate our researchers’ success based on the number of calls made. Still, phone conversations with both clients and non-clients are necessary to verify information in our database that is used on a daily basis. We are always evolving our practices to better measure the quality of our work, and trust that you will continue to see less emphasis on call metrics as we continue to evolve the research process over time.

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