Pros
It is undeniable, the product which Costar produces is invaluable to subscribers. You can talk to any CRE company, they will say we don't know what we did before CoStar, there is no going back. $40,000 starting isn't bad at all. It is a young environment and has many promising, fun, and talented people. The benefits are good and cover all the necessities.
Cons
You are a market researcher for a database company. Your primary job is to update as many properties daily in the database as possible. Many if not all days you will dial out on your phone over 100 times. Your incentive is built off of a bonus which for the majority of people is not attainable. You have a portfolio, and if you do not have a good portfolio, you can do twice as much work and get half the results of someone with a good portfolio. The nature of the job allows for a wide variety of people, which means along with the promising, fun, and talented people, there are also people who have quite possibly never had an intellectual conversation in their lives and you wonder how they received a college education. The work is easy, but monotonous. You do the same thing day in and day out. There is no room for advancement in the multi-family department unless you switch to a different department. Pretty much 98-100% of the people there are looking for or desire a different job.