Love the workers, company needs to change - Administrative Compass Employee Review

3.0
1 Sept 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-a lot of really awesome workers around -health insurance is free (probably one of their best recruiting tools) -could be better for the amount of work expected, but starting salary wasn’t horrible (they will not give good increases tho so fight for a good rate at offer, assume you will be doing a lot more than the job description)

Cons

-everyone is given a workload of 2-3 people, it’s up to you to decide what’s important -if you express how overworked or overwhelmed you are- upper management will look at you like you’re crazy, mid management will tell you to just try as hard as you can within your 8 hours -customers (agents) are constantly asking for things which is their right (because you’re doing the work of 2-3 people) so you have to disappoint customers (agents) to take a lunch break -use of toxic family/community language with pretty regular mass layoffs and turnover -not diverse -upper management is a lot of white men -the “sell” of compass is “a luxury office experience that other agencies don’t offer” but because of COVID/remote work and downsizing/layoffs a lot of work is put on national remote teams that are not on the ground and don’t have urgency around local problems -as an admin- super difficult to get a hold on spending when they give you a massive budget (like way more money than you could ever spend in a year) but then vocalize how they want you to spend as little as possible and how we need to cut costs -they don’t respect the work of administrators and don’t consider it a legitimate trade and view it as entry level work even though they’re hiring experienced admins -burnout and high turnover is constant with all IC workers -upper management sets really bad boundaries surrounding work, hurting workers abilities to set boundaries -compass is a “tech” company but IT is a remote national team- agents (customers) see IT as kind of useless to solve problems - they hate calling the help line so it’s really on the people in the office to assist customer with the tech platform, their devices, etc -when workers quit- they are slow to replace or just don’t replace, and then the team needs to absorb responsibility for that work load

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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

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2.0
17 June 2026
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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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