Triple check what they tell you in your interview process - Engineering Manager Compass Employee Review

1.0
Jun 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Team was really good and full of really hard workers who wanted to make a significant difference for the product and business

Cons

- Leadership, leadership, leadership. This doesn't exist here. - No tech centric culture: you are asked and forced to do things by stakeholders with no care of how it impacts system architecture and how that architecture should scale to benefit the business long term - Stakeholders and business groups spearhead toward a destination with no clear vision on the desired outcome or how they want said outcome to influence the business in a positive way to help the company move forward in a positive direction - The culture is very toxic. Please be prepared to protect yourself and make sure you are keeping note of your ownership items in your projects to defend yourself when someone inevitably throws you under the bus - Transparency (goes back to leadership): very clear that leadership does not align or even collectively prepare before they address the business in all hands. They will be very vague to ensure that there is ambiguity and plausible deniability

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5.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

Focused on expansion by any means necessary

2.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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