AVOID AVOID AVOID - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
3 Oct 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Used to have free healthcare, job was guaranteed full time permanent remote, decent pay, decent time off. The IPO flopped, consistent lawsuits, multiple waves of layoffs, so at least Compass won't be around for much longer. Not a whole lot of forward thinking here.

Cons

Chaotic with no guidance, direct managers are useless. Ghoulish upper management, went through several managers over a short period of time (they all either got fired with zero communication to the team, or quit with no notice). Total lack of consistency and care, robotic non-answers abound. Employees are consistently ignored or punished for bringing up relevant issues, and placated with hollow gestures like mental health seminars and hashtags. Full time hours are no longer guaranteed with soulless management leading the charge. There are some absolutely horrible, truly bad people working as regional managers/on the executive team, nasty people. Asinine tasks that keep changing every week for absolutely no reason; constantly tinkering with processes and adding more to everyone's plate is not innovation. Absolutely awful job, one of the worst places I've worked in a very long time.

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5.0
17 June 2026
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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

Focused on expansion by any means necessary

2.0
17 June 2026
Recommend
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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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