Good until it’s not. - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

3.0
7 Nov 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Friendly staff. Company events. If you work in a good office, you’ll have fun.

Cons

Went downhill really fast. Employees are second class to agents and that only lasts so long. They stripped away nearly all benefits that made them so popular in the first place and keep adding new projects for the team to work on. Employees are stretched incredibly thin all the time. They severely underpay compared to other tech roles and if you are part of an acquisition, it will be even less.

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5.0
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Pros

The technology is the best in the business.

Cons

The company is growing incredibly fast, making company culture a challenge.

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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