Micro managed - Research Analyst Third Bridge Employee Review

1.0
Aug 20, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice co-workers for the most part, very intelligent and kind people.

Cons

1. Another company who does the same thing offers 30k as a start salary. Everything is dependent on the bonus at TB which you only get if tou hit the target. 2. Talking about targets, depending on the vertical you are in they can be extremely difficult because of odd clients and other circumstances outside your control. This is not accounted for in your target and you will often get put down for not reaching your target in the monthly feedback session, which for some teamleaders are just a way to exert power over you. 3. As mentioned in other reviews, teamleaders are responsible for managing 8-9 people, despite having no experience whatsoever and no talent for managing people. Some TLs use their position to manage you out if they dont like you. Company knows about it too, but no one does anything against this sort of power abuse. 4. In the beginning you are just used to recruit new people and you are not allowed to use internal people. So you're just slaving away cold calling people, while associates recruit maybe one person a month but hit their targets because they are allowed to use the internal system. 5. Micro managed to the max. People will go through your every piece of communication with the specialist and measure your performance on how much you hassle specialists. Stay away as faaaaar as possible. Especially if you do not want to be a recruiter, which is just what the position is. Zero brain cells engaged and you do better if you turn of all thinking and just do what you're told. Research and analysis is something completely absent from this position.

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Third Bridge Response
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Many thanks for taking the time to review Third Bridge here on Glassdoor. We are sorry for the delay in responding to you. We appreciate your feedback. We would like to emphasise clearly that any concerns and/or allegations that go against the company’s Code of Conduct are taken very seriously. With this in mind we would like to learn more so that we can address your concerns so we can rectify them. We have a zero tolerance policy on some of the things which you have mentioned here. You can contact us at theteam@thirdbridge.com. Thank you again for your feedback, which has helped to make things better at Third Bridge and we wish you all the best of luck in your new role. - Team Third Bridge

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