Friendly, Creative and Collaborative Place to Work - Designer Compass Employee Review

5.0
3 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly: Nearly everyone (across all departments) is super welcoming, friendly and more than willing to lend a hand if needed. The teams consists of energetic, smart and motivated people, and still manage to strike a work/life balance. Creative: From the managerial staff to fellow colleagues, there's encouragement to push the brand forward, to innovate, and think outside the box. In a corporate environment, the creative aspects of a role are usually limited but here they're embraced. Collaborative: With so many regional offices and a large HQ team (in NYC) there's a lot of moving parts and opportunities to collaborate. The tools and technology are all in place to communicate nationwide. We're encouraged to learn and collaborate with other regions as well as get support from the big machine in the city.

Cons

Work is not limited to the workplace, in some instances we're expected to turn around projects outside of typical work hours (i.e. late evening/weekends).

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Pros

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Cons

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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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