Compass reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,501 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 2,501 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
1.0
Mar 25, 2023

Do Not Apply - Run

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Pros

I enjoyed most of my colleagues

Cons

I have worked in quite a few places and this is hands down the worst. Management will gaslight to get what they need. They are more than willing to sacrifice anyone to stay employed during round after round of layoffs. Promises of your position being safe and then a massive layoff weeks later. Lay offs are announced the morning of and you just have to wait and see if you are given an invitation for a 15 minute meeting with your manager which equals you're laid off. A memo was from the CEO was leaked telling managers to get rid of employees for any reason to avoid another public signal that this is a sinking ship. Forget it if you are applying for a staff position, managers and agents will treat you like you have zero intelligence or value and that you are their personal assistant. The company will tell you we're #1 and to wait out the storm over and over and over but it's very clearly smoke and mirrors considering benefits (that only apply to staff) are being cut or slashed.

3.0
Nov 23, 2020
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Pros

- People eager to do their best work - (used to be) top level talent - Clean, nice office spaces - Snacks (pre Covid) - Work from home days even pre-Covid - Trusting employees to do their job and manage their time on their own

Cons

- No diversity - Faux support from management - Lack of transparency - Rules keep changing on you (bonuses, raises, eligibility etc) - Toxic high school clique environment - Mostly white women employees, so if you're anything but that you stick out - No room for growth if you are in the creative department - No mentors or supervisors if you are in the creative department - Pleasing agents at all cost, even if it comes at the cost of employee unhappiness - Eventual elimination of creatives so the company can save money and rely on automation completely - Inviting a cis white woman to speak on diversity and inclusion while employees tried to get more qualified professionals - Management patting each other on the back and not listening to employee concerns - Management does not care about growth (no manager chose to participate in diversity and inclusion training when it was made available via said task force)

1.0
Apr 8, 2020
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Pros

co-workers, salary, swag, Camp Compass (no longer there), back-end support (no longer there).

Cons

Compass has done significant lay offs since I started with the company. Since my employment in 2018, they laid off staff twice. Even employees who had been with the company since the beginning, as well as employees who went above and beyond their job description, were laid off under the "guise" of COVID-19. Compass is a "hype machine". This company reels people in, poaches people, and gives people false expectations with a competitive salary, benefits package, and culture, which are all diminishing. They promised unlimited sick time, gym reimbursements, snacks, etc. which have all been slowly removed. I was told that I had to be let go, not because of my performance, but because the company financially could not keep me on payroll. They let a majority of us go on a combined video conference call, after we were loyal employees for years and years. What the company did to its devoted staff members was sickening. They did not think about the livelihood of the people who help make the company run.

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