Look Elsewhere - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
Mar 24, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers, decent salary, decent benefits, snacks.

Cons

These reviews are skewed because it seems to be a mix of Staff and Real Estate Agents reviewing. If it was just Staff reviews, the approval rating would be much lower. Most agents love it here because guess what, that’s all c-level cares about. They build programs and practically throw free money at agents to get them to join Compass. Staff on the other hand? I would argue the opposite. Compass was once a great place to work but everything that was promised in the beginning is slowly being taken away because they are trying to cut back for an IPO. The CFO came in and completely changed the culture. What was once a place filled with energetic and happy employees, is not filled with anxiety, stress, and borderline depression. Now, no roles are being backfilled for people that either left or got laid off, current employees are being asked to take on more and more work without any support (they combined 3 roles into 1) or increased pay, and there is zero transparency from management on anything going on. Compass is NOT a people first place. They no longer value anyone who works on staff. So do yourself a favor, save the heartache and look elsewhere.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

People are smart. Very much a “move fast and break things” culture which can be refreshing compared to bureaucracy-heavy corporate life. I don’t agree with their values (if they have any) but what they’re doing is unquestionably working - business outlook is strong.

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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