Typical Tech Start-Up Vibe, Terrible Work-Life Balance - Executive Assistant Compass Employee Review

3.0
Apr 19, 2020
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Pros

Free catered lunch every day, free access to breakfast foods, healthy snacks and beverages, each employee given a Macbook Air and dual monitors to use while employed, can order dinner from corporate Seamless acct if you work past 8pm, company reimburses taxi ride home if you work past 10pm, gym reimbursement program, nice open office space with lots of windows and natural light

Cons

very little real privacy due to the "shared space" design, all the little perks trick you into working extremely long hours, horrible work-life balance with your boss expecting answers from you at all hours of the night, even when home sick, chastised for how many sick days you take despite their "unlimited sick/mental health day" policy, low salary for the amount of work expected, higher-ups more focused on expansion of brand than retention of employees, HIGH turnover due to lack of respect for employees

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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

Focused on expansion by any means necessary

2.0
Jun 17, 2026
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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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