Tight-knit company, benefits and salary need to improve. - Anonymous Compass Media Employee Review

4.0
May 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great foot-in-the-door, nice home office location, good agency experience, and hybrid/remote schedule.

Cons

The benefits could improve drastically. A 401K or match is not provided. The sick and vacation time is to a minimum. Salaries are nowhere near matching the state's Annual Salary or Hourly Wages. This causes long turnovers for departments and "more" stress on employees. Employees are not treated equally. More of a "put your time in" and you will get rewarded. No "trust" within employees. There are various outdated practices and no standard of operations. Little room for growth within the company. Different standards for different departments.

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Compass Media Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We agree that our home office location is beautiful overlooking the marina on the Intracoastal Waterway. And we are glad that we are able to offer a flexible work schedule for most positions. Compass Media does offer a 401K but is unable to offer a matching contribution. To address this limitation, Compass Media offers other unique benefits. We continue to evaluate our benefits offerings and have made improvements every year. Four improvements or additions have been made so far in 2023. The nature of our work varies greatly from department to department. We reward consistent high performance over time and evaluate our salaries carefully against not only Alabama standards, but, since we hire remote employees coast to coast, also regional and national standards. We continue to work to improve and appreciate those team members who help us look for solutions.

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5.0
Apr 24, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

1) remote work opportunity 2) friendly, caring staff 3) supportive management and team 4) fun advertising clients 5) terrific work/life balance

Cons

1) outdated software and processes 2) slow adoption of recommendations/somewhat resistant to change 3) fairly narrow selection of clients 4) not much room for potential career advancement

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Compass Media Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to submit a review. We are encouraged by your positive feedback. We have struggled to grow our team as fast as we have grown our customer base. Ideally we would have the personnel in place to allow us to be a leader in system and process improvement. Once we are able to grow our team, the selection for clients and room for advancement should follow.
2.0
Apr 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most employees are nice, frustrating to work with at times - but very great people across the board.

Cons

With a few exceptions, when management gets involved (which is constantly) - it really slows down any traction that usually runs at a snail's pace to begin with. Culture/ values are lauded as priority, but the culture itself is pretty canned. Making a great office environment being such a high talking point seems hypocritical when wages don't make employees feel valued. Some folks in the office can be super passive-aggressive.

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Compass Media Response
4y
We are sorry to hear about your experience at Compass Media. We value all of our current and former employees’ feedback. We had a management change in 2016, and Dustin has since taken the helm. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, and we apologize that it wasn't responded to sooner.
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