Community is key - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

5.0
Oct 18, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Compass is building the operating system for real estate through technology, marketing, and community, and as an employee, you have the rare opportunity to experience that focus every day. Community is key here - for agents and employees - so that's a major focus during the interview process. Leadership views candidates as people being welcomed into a family, so fit is incredibly important. The leadership team is impressive, collaborative, and transparent - you don't feel left in the dark here. The CEO is passionate and inspiring. He continues to call new agents and new hires to personally welcome them to the team even as the business continues to grow. He's focused on building an incredible community that feels close and personal no matter how big it gets. He's also just a great human being.

Cons

The company is still young so some of the administrative systems need tweaking. If you don't like moving fast and wondering where the weeks have gone, you might not enjoy "the Compass way" as the fast-paced environment is affectionately called.

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Cons

Leadership will tell you there’s no ego or self-interest involved in their strategy - that is untrue. It’s an extremely heliocentric culture around the CEO. A lot of the work is based around what people they're guessing he’ll like, but there’s no alignment at the outset and something you worked on for weeks/months will be trashed after one look from him. Their mission is ostensibly about empowering agents but they are solving a problem that pretty much no one was complaining about before they started, and which just so happens to work highly in their favor in terms of market share. It’s just business but very disingenuous- don’t believe the hype that it’s altruistic somehow. Also the CEO loves to share his sob story about his single mother upbringing, but simultaneously enacts some of the most anti-parent policies you could think of.

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