Not all it's cracked up to be - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

2.0
Oct 29, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, free lunch, flexible work/ life balance

Cons

The leadership team is sneaky and not transparent. Instead of laying people off after a huge surge of over hiring they instead invoked voluntary departure through their review process by providing no raises or bonuses to employees. Massive amounts of employees leaving and not opening up headcount to replace them. People management training nonexistant, people managers with no experience in charge of your career path, career maps are fake, promotions given based off personal relationships, not actual achievements, HR team doesn't take feedback from frustrated employees seriously and is never actioned on. Agents are priority and employees are overworked and abused by agents but CEO + leadership will tell you to do everything to make the agents happy.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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