Lower management is a joke - Commissions Analyst Compass Employee Review

2.0
1 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent benefits, nice HQ, some managers are decent

Cons

Lower managers hold on to their positions and are afraid of any minor change. Dealing with commissions is insane since there is no unified database for a-lots and everything is scrambled from multiple sources, often making the -recess extremely painful due to constant split mistakes. Getting to the upper management is a buzzard process. The -Erwin might be sitting two rows away from you, but it could take you two weeks of back and forth emails to find this person. Also, during the COVID they just started to cut down the workforce and splitting the remaining work to those who were still employed, making the workload excessively large (all while housing market was fine and kicking with no visible downward trends)

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Cons

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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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