Great Company to Work For! - Engineer Compass Employee Review

4.0
8 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pros: - Open office with friendly co workers - Flexible work from home hours - Collaborative environment - Good company culture - Catering for lunch - I'm learning new technology

Cons

Cons: - A few long time employees have left, which hasn't been good for morale - While the product/engineering department is great, it is hard to balance the start-up vibe of the department with an overall corporate culture (although they are really trying to work on this) - The annual review process is very time consuming - The company is growing quickly, and sometimes its easy to loose the fun culture that attracted people to Compass in the first place

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17 Jun 2026
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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

Focused on expansion by any means necessary

2.0
17 Jun 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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