Compass reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,506 total reviews)
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Robert Reffkin

75% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Compass has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,506 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Compass employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Feb 25, 2020

Not a good place to work

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Pros

Your colleagues and some of the agents make this job bearable

Cons

If you work in marketing, you will consistently work 50+ hour weeks, and be expected to manage upwards of 100 accounts yourself. You will not have a moment to eat lunch or breathe between meetings, and you will be held to an incredibly high professional standard (when the agents you work with are often unreasonable, unrealistic and extremely unprofessional.) There is a lack of transparency from HQ to other markets regarding initiatives and changes in OKRs, and management can be disappointing and make decisions without all of the information.

1.0
Feb 12, 2020

Toxic and Dysfunctional

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Pros

Free food, 100% paid healthcare

Cons

Awful leadership and lack of direction. My boss and group leader talked badly about a coworker behind his back to my face. I have gotten nasty comments towards me just for asking a question. If you ask questions to get a better sense of the work you are doing, you get dirty looks. Miserable culture. Excessive micromanaging. A business model that will fail like WeWork.

1.0
Dec 4, 2019

They lie about their technology. It sucks.

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Pros

They spend more money than they make so it looks great!

Cons

Several: - Compass says it is revolutionizing the home buying/selling process by creating superior technology. Compass has been around for 7 years and still has absolutely zero technological advantage over a low/mid-range small-town local brokerage. They use gmail & facebook, tools any 5th grader can sign up for. - Compass is run by an inspirational aging peppy millennial, not unlike Adam Neuman, who likes to stand in front of compass offices and hand passer-bys cake pops. He frequently sends long emotional emails about past moments from his life & asks agents to buy compass stock. - Compass is incredibly arrogant and does embarrassingly tacky things like stamping their logo all over legal documents and real estate contracts. - Compass has raised $1.5 billion dollars in venture capital, the majority from Softbank, and frequently boasts about its fundraising on social media. Even though they have never turned a profit & they refuse to open their books. - They use the majority of their fundraising dollars to lure top-producing agents away from their brokerages with massive signing bonuses and unrealistic commission spits. Yet they claim they are growing organically. - Amateur C-level management continuously fleeing & being replaced by more amateurs with little to no real life real estate experience

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