Stay Away - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
Aug 24, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

great people challenging and interesting work

Cons

unbelievably mismanaged top to bottom not a tech company lots of politics zero transparency or accountability constant layoffs priorities change every few months zero direction or unity did I say no accountability yet? the most senior leaders do whatever they want with no context, drive the company into the ground, and then they continue to rise up. lots of line to mid-level leaders are great, but the top is not. i would recommend you stay far away from this company. the execs are already selling shares even though our stock is at an all-time low. morale is absolutely gutted.

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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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