Not The Company It Was - Anonymous employee Apartments.com Employee Review

1.0
26 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Have to write something so, they had snacks and the location downtown was nice and benefits were comparable to what we had at Classified Ventures.

Cons

Since CoStar bought the company it has been down hill. They took what was once a great place to work where people cared about our product, customers and employees to an atmosphere of who cares...I'm only here for a paycheck. They continue to lay off all the original apartments.com staff so nobody will be left that remember how great we were. The CEO is an egotistical little man that we nicknamed "Napoleon". Its his way or the highway who has surrounded himself with "yes" men/women. So Mr. Napoleon spend 100 million dollars on advertising but your still just a little man with deep pockets.

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