If you are in the marketing department, maybe not worth it. - Marketing Specialist Advisor Compass Employee Review

3.0
Feb 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-They hire great people, and I loved most of my coworkers. -If you are in HQ up in NYC, they have a lot of great perks and great corporate culture -Free healthcare! -Great parental leave policy -Decent pay

Cons

-Terrible work life balance due to long hours (note, this is just for the marketing+design department, most other positions were still able to leave at a normal hour) -No local leadership in their "expansion markets" (newly launched offices outside of NYC, CA, and DC) -No room for growth (due to no leadership, and unclear career mapping outside of HQ) -Big promises made during the recruitment phase that aren't delivered on. Negotiate the highest starting salary you can, because once there, getting a raise or promotion is harder than it should be. -Unclear leadership structure outside of HQ -Unrealistic ratios for staff to client support. As they bring on more real estate agents, they don't scale their internal staff comparably. -If you were previously at an agency, and excited to go in house for better workload, this is not the job for you. You support 50-100 different real estate agents, all with different personal branding and goals, so its far worse than the 10 clients you had at the agency. -For a company that touts diversity and inclusion at HQ, this is not exhibited at our office.

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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

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2.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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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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