No Work Life Balance - Anonymous employee Compass Employee Review

2.0
Jan 7, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Medical benefits, Free food, Great co-workers, Unlimited sick leave, Tech support

Cons

Everyone is overworked across various departments. People work themselves to the bone with no work-life balance. Compass is growing too fast and the work load for staff is consistently overwhelming. Their main concern is recruiting agents, and doing everything they can to make them happy, even if it is at the expense of staff members’ quality-of-life. Staff works late into the night, vacation , sick days, and holidays. Employees do this because they take pride in their work but the workload is so heavy.... and no one should feel the pressure to work like this unless they are self-employed. Despite numerous national and regional meetings where employees repeatedly voice these concerns, nothing is being done. Many have quit simply because they are fed up and burnt out. The free lunches and unlimited sick leave mean nothing when you don’t even have time to eat it or take time off to be get better. They are losing incredibly brilliant and talented people because they cannot get their act together.

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Cons

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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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