growing pain but lucky to have good manager - Senior QA Compass Employee Review

4.0
May 25, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- my manager gives me tons of freedom on what I want to do, or I can decide what I would like to do - the company is growing so fast that you cant remember everyone name except for the people on your team or you worked with

Cons

- sometimes the leadership shift the focus too quickly - leadership cares about the agents too much, too much of customer focus. They seem to not like to listen PM or UX researcher feedback - hard to get promotion or growth

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5.0
Jul 24, 2026
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Pros

Genuinely love working here. So much to learn and do with not many stipulations.

Cons

The management chain takes ages to get things done. Real estate has so many regional nuances that corporate-wide policies often dont affect most regions appropriately.

2.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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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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