this place is such a joke, prepare to hate your life - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
30 Jan 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

its really easy to be seen as a shining star, because most people here are idiots

Cons

The realtors are NIGHTMARES. They're the most unrealistic and pompous people you've ever met, they act as though they are sparkly unicorns that walk on water, and every small problem they feel is fit to go straight to the CEO about. The total lack of respect for support staff is disgusting and in any regular corporate environment, the majority of these people would be fired. The worst part is, corporate management are too scared to reprimand them as they're worried they'll leave the brokerage and take their commission checks with them, so nothing is done about it. I warn you- don't work here if you dont have thick skin or cant handle being treated like crap.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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