Company Headed In the Right Direction - Senior Software Engineer Compass Employee Review

5.0
10 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Company leadership recognizes issues w/ speed impacting quality of tech offering. - Leadership is capable, transparent. - Flexibility of working arrangements. - Regular performance reviews to calibrate company + career goals. - Intelligent co-workers, and openness across departments.

Cons

- Company's obsession with speed + growth has harmed quality of tech offering.

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17 June 2026
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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

Focused on expansion by any means necessary

2.0
17 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People are smart. Very much a “move fast and break things” culture which can be refreshing compared to bureaucracy-heavy corporate life. I don’t agree with their values (if they have any) but what they’re doing is unquestionably working - business outlook is strong.

Cons

Leadership will tell you there’s no ego or self-interest involved in their strategy - that is untrue. It’s an extremely heliocentric culture around the CEO. A lot of the work is based around what people they're guessing he’ll like, but there’s no alignment at the outset and something you worked on for weeks/months will be trashed after one look from him. Their mission is ostensibly about empowering agents but they are solving a problem that pretty much no one was complaining about before they started, and which just so happens to work highly in their favor in terms of market share. It’s just business but very disingenuous- don’t believe the hype that it’s altruistic somehow. Also the CEO loves to share his sob story about his single mother upbringing, but simultaneously enacts some of the most anti-parent policies you could think of.

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