Cult of Constant Chaos - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
26 Sept 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The marketing behind the brand is appealing.

Cons

Constant state of chaos. Everything is always changing—staff is moved around so frequently it’s hard to know who to contact. While they seem to provide great tools, it’s really just smoke and mirrors as they simply bandaged together multiple independent companies, negotiated a bulk discount for themselves and then up charge you in addition to the huge split they take for none of their effort. They lure you in with incentives and high splits but don’t tell you they’ll lower your split after the first year. If you try to leave, once you see it’s nothing more than smoke and mirrors, they use contract claw backs and penalties to make it impossible for your business to survive the move. Beware of the contract that says they can change any of the terms at any time.

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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

Focused on expansion by any means necessary

2.0
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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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