Compass San Diego - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
2 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

They have a knack for hiring incredible talent and generally really genuine people.

Cons

It was truly one of the most toxic environments I have ever worked in from leadership up. Which is tough to say as I was part of the middle management team. Lack of communication and empathy was appalling. The lack of talent/experience among senior leadership was even more disturbing. The pay is low, the standards are high and you spend more time playing politics than you do working. There were folks in positions that had absolutely zero experience in the real estate space nor the departments they were managing. Lower level employees are treated like numbers while they make 1/10 of what management does while doing 99% of the heavy lifting. I have luckily never been bullied in my career, but I soon found out at Compass what that was like. Department leaders from other regions were the only reason I held on.

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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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