Third Bridge reviews

Where to start: - Management: Middle management are promoted based on their ability to do the job and to walk over people to advance their career rather than having people skills or the ability to manage people. There are few people to look up to as an employee and they themselves foster a very nasty and backstabbing atmosphere which is completely unprofessional for people in their position - managers will literally gossip about other people to you. Finally, it's difficult being managed by people who have only a few years' more life experience than you meaning you'll struggle to learn and develop. - Work-life balance: Appalling. There is a complete disparity between what's expected on you based on your manager and tough luck if you've got a manager who expects you to be answering emails and setting up projects well into the night. Some strike it lucky with managers who are more on board with a work-life balance, but there's still the general expectation you'll be responding to emails way past your finish time. People will go into meetings hosted by the CEO and sit there on their laptops and mobile phones because of the ridiculous need to respond to client emails immediately. - Clients: On the whole they're good to work with, but there is a minority who treat you like a second class citizen so you have to be prepared to work with some clients who barely want to interact with you. Middle management are always quick to judge your performance based on what a client does (despite it being completely out of your control to influence what another human being does) and will always side with the client over you. - The job: Not to beat around the bush, you'll be sat there from 9am-6pm on LinkedIn the entire day, it's incredibly monotonous. There's barely any skill involved in this job, it's all focused around who can respond to their emails quickest and get in there before the competition does, which doesn't foster a healthy work environment in the slightest. Finally, handled the COVID-19 situation in London appallingly and fired numerous people in the middle of the pandemic with very sketchy communications around the reasoning for this. Watch out, these people do not have your back.

The connections floor basically operates as a hotline for the consultants within the network and the clients. This helps you develop client-facing skills if you stay past the year. You are expected to "be responsive" to clients essentially 24-7 once you move onto the project management phase. What really saddened me is the fact that Third Bridge makes little financial investment in their people and technology and it almost seemed as if in their hiring process had some sort of predetermined economic expectation of their employees (which is crazy to me when you are hiring recent college grads). They do not provide you with a phone, a work laptop, and only offer minimal compensation for your phone bill if you are using your devices after hours. Employees are expected to front the whole cost for travel opportunities and the expense system is not efficient. The base salary is typical for entry-level positions, but very low if you are interested in financial services. Turnover is extremely high on the connections floor, and it's likely because of the cattiness that permeates it. The company ends up losing some of their best employees because of the flat hierarchy, and low morale. The job is relatively standard across the board in terms of what it takes to be successful, yet management labels employees as either "the best" or "the worst". Management is open about these classifications of their employees, and yet wonders why they don't succeed.