Don't come here - Product Manager Compass Employee Review

1.0
30 Jul 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- It's getting harder to recruit talent, so you may be able to negotiate a comp package similar to that of Amazon - The place is so disorganized you may be able to get away with doing very little work while being paid well - Used to be a fun place to work where you could do a lot and learn a lot (no longer)

Cons

- Place is infested with bad former Amazon leadership. Nothing against Amazon, but we took all the bad Amazon middle and upper management. I spend most of my time teaching middle management on what's going on vs learning from them. - As a PM, you will spend most of your time preparing useless documents that will be read once (or not even once). You will not learn any PM skills. - Extremely top down, no product strategy, constant reorganization - Lots of competent people are leaving, overall talent pool is getting worse - Product does not generate any revenue. Leadership can probably get rid of 50% of P&E without any impact to revenue (huge improvements to cost), so watch out for cost reduction efforts when the real estate market is no longer at an all time high and/or when the public market wants to see positive net income - Business model has no moat. Any brokerage with funding can recruit agents and keep them with $$. - Trust me, do yourself a favor and don't come here

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5.0
17 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Forward thinking tech company exploring the cutting edge

Cons

Focused on expansion by any means necessary

2.0
17 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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