Third Bridge reviews

DO NOT WORK FOR THIRD BRIDGE! It is a glorified call centre with no level of intellect required! A run down of what you’ll be doing each day: 1) meeting in the morning where you’re assigned projects. The projects involve you either screening specialists on the existing TB database or custom RECRUITING (key word here is recruiting) people on LinkedIn (C-execs etc) who can offer your client some sort of knowledge/expertise 2) you will then spend your time until lunch doing takes a trained monkey could perform... opening up LinkedIn and capturing profiles to add onto the database. You will then have to cold-call them and sell the TB product- oh god it’s awfully dull! 3) you will then have a meeting after lunch where you discuss any updates on your projects. Another chore for get through... 4) for the rest of the day, you will continue screening specialists- calling them to assess their level of knowledge on the clients issue, then writing up a ‘relevant experience’ on the database to send to the client ...And that’s it! No skills learned at all. Nothing to help advance you on in your career. Absolutely nothing. TB tend recruits people from top-tier universities - I simply cannot see why? These monotonous tasks can be done by anyone with half a brain cell. If you want to be micro-managed, learn nothing , and spend your days doing mine-numbingly boring tasks then Third Bridge is the place to work. Cross that metaphorical bridge to NOWHERE! Graduates or those seeking employment please apply elsewhere, even if the salary is lower. You will at least gain valuable and transferable skills! DO NOT WORK HERE

- Underpaid, overworked - No work life balance. You have to answer client emails and requests at all hours - No career path or acquiring of technical skills. If you can copy and paste on a computer and make phone calls then you'll be great at this job. You really learn nothing else that'll give you a strong advantage or skillset for future jobs. - High turnover. 90% of people leave after 1-2 years (and for good reason too, please read all of these cons) Recently people across all levels have left every single week, and not enough people are getting hired. Those of us still stuck here are left to pick up extra work - Job is misleading. You are a glorified secretary getting calls on the calendar and handling reschedules and cancellations. You are not doing any market research. The clients give you the exact criteria (company, title, etc.) that experts need to fall under and could not care less about interacting with you. You are treated as less than a speck of dirt since they are also working with other expert networks and just looking to schedule a call if convenient for them - Inexperienced management. This is most managers' first job out of college so they don't know how to actually manage people. They just know how to blame you and put pressure on you if you don't hit your targets - Have to borderline harass experts to get on the phone with our clients. If someone is unavailable or disinterested, you are told to keep chasing when they clearly want to be left alone. You're also told to pay them the cheapest rate possible. The "specialist experience" is non-existent. Everything done here is to just please clients even though our business wouldn't exist without our specialists and experts - Favoritism and gossip. Since everyone here is so young, they all talk behind each other's backs and nothing can be kept confidential. Promotions, etc. will be given out if you are liked. - Unrealistic expectations. Everything is always "urgent" and you are expected to work 110% every month because every month is "crazy." If you don't hit your targets, you are told to work later and do more even though hitting performance goals is not a direct result of effort. That's 100% determined by clients and they can ghost on a project at any second so all of your work is wasted - Rudeness. Most people are just plain rude and disrespectful. All interactions are transactional and you can get away with being a jerk as long as you perform well. - Management doesn't listen nor care. Anytime you flag any issues with a manager or upper management, they'll either say it's been an ongoing issue that they don't have control over, or basically deny that anything's wrong. It's wild how blind and ignorant they are to how people actually feel about this company - No clear metrics on getting promoted. Requirements keep changing, along with the bonus structure (which is a joke). By the way, we were asked to write positive Glassdoor reviews in a Town Hall to boost up Third Bridge's ratings.