So morally bankrupt and delusional they believe their own lies - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
17 July 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Some good agents and managers

Cons

-took away benefits with no warning. When I pushed back, HR tried to gaslight me into thinking it was my fault for taking things “out of context”. Not sure how a written agreement could be taken out of context but ok? -loves to push the “we care about our employees” narrative when the reality is quite the opposite. For example, when I received a company wide “Happy Mothers Day” email from the CEO while they were simultaneously changing, manipulating, and taking away my maternity leave benefits. -ever since compass started loosing massive amounts of money and laying off half of their employee population, they’ve outsourced certain positions to contract workers. This results in almost no continuity across departments which leads to a lot of confusion from the top down. No one seems to have any idea what they’re talking about. -zero incentives to work here

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Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

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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