They lie about their technology. It sucks. - Agent Compass Employee Review

1.0
4 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

They spend more money than they make so it looks great!

Cons

Several: - Compass says it is revolutionizing the home buying/selling process by creating superior technology. Compass has been around for 7 years and still has absolutely zero technological advantage over a low/mid-range small-town local brokerage. They use gmail & facebook, tools any 5th grader can sign up for. - Compass is run by an inspirational aging peppy millennial, not unlike Adam Neuman, who likes to stand in front of compass offices and hand passer-bys cake pops. He frequently sends long emotional emails about past moments from his life & asks agents to buy compass stock. - Compass is incredibly arrogant and does embarrassingly tacky things like stamping their logo all over legal documents and real estate contracts. - Compass has raised $1.5 billion dollars in venture capital, the majority from Softbank, and frequently boasts about its fundraising on social media. Even though they have never turned a profit & they refuse to open their books. - They use the majority of their fundraising dollars to lure top-producing agents away from their brokerages with massive signing bonuses and unrealistic commission spits. Yet they claim they are growing organically. - Amateur C-level management continuously fleeing & being replaced by more amateurs with little to no real life real estate experience

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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

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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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