Extremely Poor Leadership, Toxic Work Environment - Marketing Advisor Compass Employee Review

1.0
20 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Coworkers (until multiple lay offs occurred and everyone else left the team on their own) - Some catered lunches

Cons

- Senior leadership is horrific, especially in the Marketing/Brand department - Overworked, underpaid. MA’s are not valued or appreciated by internal managers or agents - Constant restructuring, with little to no organization or processes in place. If processes are created, they change within a month - Managers are quick to throw their team members under the buss when talking with agents. All “I” and no “team” in any of the work. - Almost every other negative you can think of. This was probably the worst corporate job I’ve ever had.

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5.0
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
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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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