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      CompStak

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      CompStak Reviews

      3.9

      69% would recommend to a friend

      (48 total reviews)

      Michael Mandel

      66% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Culture and values

      3.8

      Senior management

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Diversity and inclusion

      CompStak has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 48 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CompStak employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      48 reviews
      2.0
      Nov 11, 2021

      Company is OK, Leadership is tragic

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      You will find some nice and smart people to work with. Office culture was generally good with most of the staff being nice and caring people. Engineering work is rather meticulous (because of crowdsourced data being difficult and messy), but generally easy because they have no problems that require much scale. The product is succeeding because some people are burning themselves out, but there's a healthy amount of people who are putting in minimum effort, like the CTO, so you could be one of those people.

      Cons

      Pay is below market for anyone even slightly senior. Dogs running amok in the office were celebrated. (Maybe not a con for you, but there was no consideration for folks who didn't want to be interrupted by dogs going into or out of the conference rooms or begging for food or running around crazy because another dog came into the office. Every day.) Many poor engineering decisions have left them several years behind where the industry is going. When I left there was no hint of any of Docker / Golang / Rust / Kotlin / Kubernetes / Nomad / etc. Frontend might be less stagnant. The rallying cry of "We'll disrupt the commercial real estate industry!" gave way to becoming yet another data vendor making money off of huge landlords and not helping small landlords nor tenants. Too many *New York City* landlords can't afford the rather high prices CompStak wants to charge. CTO is a macho bro man-baby, and really checked out except for when he shows up to crack the whip and intimidate people. We kept track and there was one month he only made it into the office six days, with a steady diet of oddball excuses for his whereabouts 15+ times. He should fully check out of tech. CEO made jokes about confusing two Asian employees for each other, at a company wide meeting. He's quite fratty. Leadership is quite passive aggressive and hypocritical. Before COVID, working from home was "allowed", but taking advantage of it more than once in a long while got you targeted and harassed.

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      CompStak Response
      4y
      Hi - I want to thank you for taking the time to leave this review. I noticed from your profile, that you said you worked for CompStak for over 5 years. This means that you were a key builder of the company, and for that, I appreciate you. It’s not often today that someone stays at a startup for over 5 years, and I hope that means that on the whole, you had a positive experience. I’m sorry that you felt that you were underpaid for your role at CompStak. While I do believe that today we pay salaries near the top of the market, it’s certainly true that for several years we may not have. Most startup employees choose the promise of future value in their stock options over the current value of their salary. Given our recent Series C announcement (coincidentally on the same day as your post), I hope that (at least on paper), your outcome was excellent. While I won't get into the claims in your post, I will say that our tech stack today, includes many of the technologies that you mentioned we don't use. CompStak's mission is to bring transparency to the world of Commercial Real Estate. That focus on transparency has, and always will translate into our internal culture. With that in mind, I'm disappointed that you didn't come to speak to me directly about your concerns, and I take full accountability for the fact that you must have not felt comfortable doing so. That said, I would like to extend an invitation to you to chat (or for anyone else who reads this post and wants to talk about CompStak culture with me). My email is Michael@compstak.com, and my cell phone number is 917.902.8328. I know that Vadim would also be happy to speak with you. You can reach him at vadim@compstak.com, or 917.533.0393. With Gratitude, Michael Mandel (Co-Founder & CEO)
      1.0
      Oct 27, 2019

      Consider twice before joining this company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Free snack. Ok work life balance.

      Cons

      1. Co-founders are very cheap and do not pay the market rate so many top talents left the company 2. Micro-manage all perspective of the business (sales, pricing, marketing), product and technology. Hard to scale even after 9 years as a start-up 3. Cramp office space and broken rest room Suggestion: Talk to the previous workers before consider this company

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      CompStak Response
      6y
      After 8 years of phenomenal feedback on Glassdoor, we got our first bad review. While I could just ignore this and suggest that this (likely former) employee is simply bitter for having not succeeded on our sales team, I do feel that it's the right thing to respond. At CompStak, we literally do everything possible to make our company an incredible place to work. It has been this focus that has put us on the Crain's Best Places to Work list 5 years running. Last year we were #12 and we're hoping to move up the ranks this year! It has been an incredible year of growth for CompStak. We closed our Series B earlier this year, and since that time we have more than doubled our headcount and opened brand new offices in LA, Chicago and Atlanta. With rapid growth I suppose our NY office has become a little cramped, although at 134 square feet per person currently (yes, we're in the business), we're pretty standard for a tech company in NY. Nonetheless, we're in the process of securing a larger space (with better bathrooms) to accommodate our growth. Despite the fact that we do everything we can to make CompStak awesome, not everyone succeeds (sales in particular is a tough job), not everyone feels that they're paid fairly (although we do our best to make sure they do), and not everyone loves my co-founder and me (Glassdoor ratings suggest that most do) . There is one thing that I ABSOLUTELY agree with from this ex-employee's post, and that is that you SHOULD speak to previous CompStak team members and you should speak to current CompStak team members as well. We're very proud of the culture we've built, and the way we treat our team. Oh . . . and the snacks ARE great! Michael Mandel Co-Founder & CEO
      5.0
      Oct 2, 2017

      data analyst intern

      Data analyst intern
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      near nyu, people are friendly, can learn a lot of stuff,provide training classes

      Cons

      internship jobs are rather simple and repeat, although you can still learn

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