Pros
* Benefits and pay are really great * Some teams have really good managers and intra-team culture * Heavy emphasis on building the right thing for customers * Work life balance is pretty easy to maintain if you enforce your boundaries
Cons
* Almost all leadership in product and engineering come from Amazon * Very top-down decision making (e.g., the CPO can come into a project and demand a feature be prioritized that was shown during user studies to not be what customers actually want) * Zero focus on diversity and inclusion. In fact, it's the opposite. There is a culture of elitism where people from FAANG (specifically, Amazon and Google), and people with degrees in computer science are considered the "gold standard" for engineers. I wish I could rate 0 stars for this because Compass is really, really behind the curve here, with no indication that anybody in leadership cares to make it better. My team hasn't hired a single underrepresented engineer in over a year. * Related to the above, all of our decisions and policies are based on FAANG. Compass is basically a wannabe FAANG at this point. * Career growth opportunities are heavily dependent on what project you're on, how high profile it is, and how much your manager is willing to work through all the red tape for you.