This company will soon bust. - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
26 Jul 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Sure, your typical great "startup" stuff - open spaces, stocked fridges, catered lunches, and monthly happy hours. Also has a flexible WFH policy which is fantastic for staff. There are certainly some great diamonds to be found in the employees here, but it's not super common.

Cons

Leadership is too young, too financially-driven, and not at all transparent. It's extremely male-dominated, and there is a super bizarre culture of talking behind everyone's backs. Management doesn't know how to take care of its employees yet, which is ridiculous considering it's no longer a small, nimble startup. It should be mature enough to know how to treat people with respect and keep turnover at a minimum. Very reactive and not at all proactive.

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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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