Data Engineering at Compass
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L3 entry data engineer at Compass sits around $272K total comp. Compass pays data engineers above other Healthcare companies. Reviews put them at 3.9 on Glassdoor, a little above the middle of the pack. Employee sentiment at Compass reads neutral and employee happiness is trending down over the past year. Layoff risk scores moderate for the next 30 days.
Compass data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Compass offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Compass employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Recent Compass events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- LayoffMay 2026~183 roles cut
- Exec departureFeb 2026Leadership change
- LayoffJan 2026~110 roles cut
- M&AJan 2026Acquisition / merger
- Exec departureJan 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureSep 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureJul 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureMay 2025Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Preparing for the Compass loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Compass with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Compass interview difficulty
- 01
Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
- 02
76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
- 03
5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition