Compass reviews

- A bizarre, exclusionary internal communication structure that creates siloed departments and teams. The need-to-know culture trickles down from the top, leaving folks in the field scrambling with last-minute information. - Habit of throwing money at new talent instead of promoting/appropriately compensating the great team already under the hood. If you're applying, negotiate up front! You won't see bonuses or substantial increases once you're on payroll. - Emphasis on selling the product (Compass tech platform) instead of helping the agents — hitting KPIs is the first priority, agent needs the second. - A 'That's not my job' team culture — obsession with lanes, internal procedure, and moving agents through the steps as efficiently as possible. No room for creative problem solving or using your brain. If you like talk tracks, you'll be right at home.

The executive team will not accept being challenged. Compass is a traditional brokerage that spend a ton of money on technology and employee retention, but it is unsustainable as they give outsized commission splits to their (high quality) agents but do not earn any additional $’s to pay for their extravagant spend elsewhere. In other words, they have spent $100’s of millions of dollars pretending they are a technology difference maker in the industry that commands a multiple relative to the competition, but all they are is a smaller version of them that just happens to spend a lot more money.