Compass reviews

* Almost all leadership in product and engineering come from Amazon * Very top-down decision making (e.g., the CPO can come into a project and demand a feature be prioritized that was shown during user studies to not be what customers actually want) * Zero focus on diversity and inclusion. In fact, it's the opposite. There is a culture of elitism where people from FAANG (specifically, Amazon and Google), and people with degrees in computer science are considered the "gold standard" for engineers. I wish I could rate 0 stars for this because Compass is really, really behind the curve here, with no indication that anybody in leadership cares to make it better. My team hasn't hired a single underrepresented engineer in over a year. * Related to the above, all of our decisions and policies are based on FAANG. Compass is basically a wannabe FAANG at this point. * Career growth opportunities are heavily dependent on what project you're on, how high profile it is, and how much your manager is willing to work through all the red tape for you.

The tech is not revolutionary... CRM is just Contactually - which is not intuitive or EZ to use. AI is less helpful than using Zillow, Google, Redfin or even Homesnap. Management in coastal North SD County is focused on growth & putting out fires instead of supporting agents. It took 5 months after joining to get a single 30 min. meeting with the Broker in charge of over 100 agents. They need to add more brokers with so many agents! SF, LA & NY seem to have a lot more support! Lastly, they take our way too much of the commission considering how little support there is for the agents. They were too focused on their IPO and continued growth. Maybe this will change, yet the WS monster always demands more & more growth, at what cost?