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3.9

70% would recommend to a friend

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Robert Reffkin

74% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

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3.0
Sep 4, 2022
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Pros

Excellent health insurance, decent benefits, salary is not offensive. Probably best fitted for a first job out of college or changing industries, doesn't require very much hard skill, opportunity to learn on the job by working in every medium branding and marketing collateral exist in. If you're skilled already, after a period of adjustment daily tasks can be automated to minimal effort and a lot of free time.

Cons

Honestly if you're looking for a corporate marketing gig you will probably be fine with a lot of quick turnaround projects, speed and servility being more valued than the quality of design and a lot of micromanagement by the senior creatives, marketing and clients. Wouldn't recommend for a seasoned designer who expects growth — the job is mostly production design, structurally there's no space for neither salary or job title changes.

3.0
Sep 1, 2022
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Pros

-a lot of really awesome workers around -health insurance is free (probably one of their best recruiting tools) -could be better for the amount of work expected, but starting salary wasn’t horrible (they will not give good increases tho so fight for a good rate at offer, assume you will be doing a lot more than the job description)

Cons

-everyone is given a workload of 2-3 people, it’s up to you to decide what’s important -if you express how overworked or overwhelmed you are- upper management will look at you like you’re crazy, mid management will tell you to just try as hard as you can within your 8 hours -customers (agents) are constantly asking for things which is their right (because you’re doing the work of 2-3 people) so you have to disappoint customers (agents) to take a lunch break -use of toxic family/community language with pretty regular mass layoffs and turnover -not diverse -upper management is a lot of white men -the “sell” of compass is “a luxury office experience that other agencies don’t offer” but because of COVID/remote work and downsizing/layoffs a lot of work is put on national remote teams that are not on the ground and don’t have urgency around local problems -as an admin- super difficult to get a hold on spending when they give you a massive budget (like way more money than you could ever spend in a year) but then vocalize how they want you to spend as little as possible and how we need to cut costs -they don’t respect the work of administrators and don’t consider it a legitimate trade and view it as entry level work even though they’re hiring experienced admins -burnout and high turnover is constant with all IC workers -upper management sets really bad boundaries surrounding work, hurting workers abilities to set boundaries -compass is a “tech” company but IT is a remote national team- agents (customers) see IT as kind of useless to solve problems - they hate calling the help line so it’s really on the people in the office to assist customer with the tech platform, their devices, etc -when workers quit- they are slow to replace or just don’t replace, and then the team needs to absorb responsibility for that work load

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