Psychologically Unsafe Work Environment - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

1.0
Feb 24, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most employees I worked directly with were very talented and easy to collaborate with.

Cons

- Announcing layoffs to a significant number of staff will happen sometime within a two month period leaving employees to fear coming to work daily. - The company is losing millions per quarter and the reason always seems to be the support staff not working hard enough for agents. - Never being able to say no to agents and being treated like garbage by all agents because that is the tone set on how to interact with staff from the CEO down. - 4 rounds of layoffs in 3 years - Asking employees to sacrifice for leadership and agents short comings financially including temporary pay cuts, guarantee of no raises or bonus, benefits slashed completely costing employees hundreds of dollars per month. - Leaking emails and fear mongering about job security among employees - Work is continually being offloaded to contractors overseas for lower rates and longer hours which employees state side can’t compete with. Employees are being gaslit when training these employees being told they won’t be replacing them only to be laid off weeks later.

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5.0
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Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

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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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