Third Bridge reviews

-There are no actual hard skills to learn while being with this company. You will become an expert in cold calling and finding people’s contact information online. That is it. - There is no real research done, but rather recruiting people to speak to the company’s clients that know what they’re talking about. Very misleading for college undergrads being recruited out of school who want to be part of actual research. - There is an underlying sub culture of hate toward management and the company by the majority of employees. They realize they are underpaid and being outperformed by competitors in the expert network industry. Middle and upper management have their heads too far up their butts to see this. -The senior leadership I had described above is so out of reach with its actual work force, they do not know the type of environment middle management has created (toxic). - Base pay for incoming “analysts” is $48000 with “uncapped” bonus potential. This is extremely under market and “bonuses” are rarely hit. - There is a constant turnover of employees. I’ve been here about a year and have seen more people leave the company than i can imagaine counting. - Management is very “cliquey” and sometimes unapproachable. -If you want to get promoted at a faster you have to kiss a lot of butt to do so. -There is a terrible work/life balance as your expected to answer client emails throughout the night and stay very late when work load is piled up. For the extremely underpaid salary that you make at this company, the hours are simply not worth it. - Employees are treated like children. For example there is a sign in sheet to the bathrooms because there is an employee who keeps leaving feces on the floor intentionally. -Constantly micromanaged by tiers of micromanagers. It is how the company operates and something that is holding back a lot of employees from their full potential. - The proprietary software the company uses is trash. Upper management spends too much time, effort, and money developing this product with people who barely know a thing and are extremely under qualified to be leading software development. There is constant outages with this internal software and glitches that are fixed on a daily basis which slows down the entire work force. -With too many people leaving the company and a bad environment being created, there is no chance the company has what it takes to compete with its major competitors. It will be swallowed up in the next 5-7 years unless big changes are coming. - C levels have left the company recently. You do the math here.

- The quality of middle management varies WILDLY. There are great managers and VPs, and at the same time, some extraordinary dreadful ones. Favouritism and Nepotism is common occurrence unfortunately; and some of the behaviour from middle management towards junior staff is frankly disgraceful. - The work is tedious and boring. It is a quasi recruiting role and the main KPI is amount of cold calls made; and new experts recruited to the network. The research work is very superficial and next to no analytical work is required. - There are very limited technical or transferrable skill sets that you can take from this job. When you boil it down, this job consists of just call scheduling for more accomplished people. - The compliance framework can be a joke. Most of what we do is find someone who is willing to provide insider information; and sell it to our clients. A House of Cards that can come down at any moment... - The main pain point of the company is the outdated performance metric system, called the "triangulator". As the Co-Founder and Former COO of the company admitted, this system that he created for fun has become a "monster". A whole thesis paper can be devoted to evaluate and assess how this ridiculous system is the fundamental reason why retention rate is so low, and why staff turn over rate is so high. - The compensation scheme is outdated and not competitive comparing to the rest of the industry. The OTE bonus can be ridiculous and a new joiner on his/her 2nd month can earn more than a higher ranked employee who has been here for a year.