Toxic workplace - Anonymous employee Apartments.com Employee Review

2.0
28 Aug 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Nice office -Good snacks -Great benefits package

Cons

-CEO is a controlling, narcissistic dictator -Not organized; wildly shifting priorities with unreasonable deadlines -TERRIBLE culture

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Apartments.com Response
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We pay careful attention to feedback from our employees – including exit interviews, administered surveys to current employees and reviews like those that appear on Glassdoor. CoStar Group is certainly a fast-paced environment, but deadlines and company goals are based on a careful measurement of the needs of clients and the capabilities of our talented staff. Often, when major projects have a tight deadline, we look to incorporate a larger group of our employees to ease the load of others, and occasionally bring on temporary employees to ease the load of our full-time contributors. All decisions are looked at from all sides and measured by senior management directly involved as well as members of other parts of the organization to ensure all changes serve both our employees and our customers in the best way possible. We care deeply about our employees, and work constantly to foster a healthy, productive work environment for the entire company. We enjoy seeing our employees working together and enjoying their time with coworkers because we know it makes the day-to-day functions of the company better inside and out.

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