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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3K reviews
5.0
Mar 27, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and a lot of leeway in how you can do your job best. A lot of opportunity to grow within the company with great perks like fitness reimbursement and tuition reimbursement for personal development purposes.

Cons

Most offices are in major metropolitan areas, meaning if you want to live somewhere affordable while doing this job you'll end up with a really long commute. Also, the Coronavirus caused them to lay off 15% of their workforce.

3.0
Feb 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-They hire great people, and I loved most of my coworkers. -If you are in HQ up in NYC, they have a lot of great perks and great corporate culture -Free healthcare! -Great parental leave policy -Decent pay

Cons

-Terrible work life balance due to long hours (note, this is just for the marketing+design department, most other positions were still able to leave at a normal hour) -No local leadership in their "expansion markets" (newly launched offices outside of NYC, CA, and DC) -No room for growth (due to no leadership, and unclear career mapping outside of HQ) -Big promises made during the recruitment phase that aren't delivered on. Negotiate the highest starting salary you can, because once there, getting a raise or promotion is harder than it should be. -Unclear leadership structure outside of HQ -Unrealistic ratios for staff to client support. As they bring on more real estate agents, they don't scale their internal staff comparably. -If you were previously at an agency, and excited to go in house for better workload, this is not the job for you. You support 50-100 different real estate agents, all with different personal branding and goals, so its far worse than the 10 clients you had at the agency. -For a company that touts diversity and inclusion at HQ, this is not exhibited at our office.

1.0
Sep 16, 2019

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Pros

It has a good work-life balance.

Cons

Not paid up to market value. Managers have little to no info. Feeling completely undervalued. Once the review cycle approaches it's a mess. Give zero equity to their employees. Everyone but management and people who work at HQ are severely underpaid. No room for growth.

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