Compass Group reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(5,939 total reviews)

Dominic Blakemore

67% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Compass Group has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,939 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Compass Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurantes y servicios de comidas industry (3.7 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
Jan 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is great/very competitive

Cons

It’s so corporate it hurts

5.0
Jan 12, 2025

Great company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers, free food at corporate

Cons

Hard for new people coming in to fit in with people who have worked there a long time

1.0
Jan 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible working hours Pension Scheme

Cons

Poor staff management Good workers punished if they have even 1 day off sick, or come to work and are visibly unwell and have to leave. They get no further shifts offered until management see fit. You could be out of work for weeks at a time. Bad workers let off with everything, multiple days off, refusing to cook, serve or interact with customers. Management and higher management and HR would molly coddle these workers, Some were even paid wages they hadn't worked the hours for before the new clock in system was introduced. The manager would put hours through for them that had been taken from other staff members shifts who had not been given a shift for whatever reason the manager saw fit. High volumes of staff turn over. High volumes of customer dissatisfaction with service from bad/lazy employees. Higher management regional, very unprofessional, setting bad examples for employees. Not wearing corrective PPE when working behind hot food counters, handling food and drinks with no gloves or utensils and wearing long hair hanging down. Management talking behind employees backs and setting employees against one another. Asking employees to spy on others for them and report back when management was off shift. Communicating with employees on Facebook messenger. Blocking or muting employees after communication and saying that it is unprofessional for us to contact them on Facebook, however it was ok for the employer to send messages to us instead of calling. There was always one rule for one and another rule for the next. Jobs were not rotated between staff so you would end up doing all the high stress fast paced work if you were good at it. If you refused to do xyz or didn't know how, then you're just left to stand and get in the way. Management gives poor training levels too. New staff are left to wonder about asking what do I do, instead of training the staff, they expect the other employees to do it for them. I was training people a week into the job role. There is much much more, but this gives the jist of it. 100% DO NOT RECCOMMEND

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