CT reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(260 total reviews)

Joel Gross

82% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

CT has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 260 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The CT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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260 reviews
1.0
Apr 21, 2023

REMOTE LIES - Micro management down to 15 minute webcam screenshots

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

we are alive and breathing?

Cons

Takes a photo every 15 mins on the webcam to make sure you're sitting at your computer. The CEO Joel Gross sent an email out to tell us to be on time at our computers (few minutes after the start time lol). Not "looking at the webcams" at all. I think the most annoying part is they talk about work life and balance. "mental health" is priority yet they are torturing us and treating us like sweatshop workers. Also there has to be some sort of legality issues of taking pictures of

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CT Response
3y
Yawn. At some point these (probably fake) over the top reviews have got to get some red flags from Glassdoor. Why would someone work here for one to two years, and claim we're lying along the way? About things we publish before you even start your first day? Comparing a work from home, 8 hour or less a day job at a computer to a sweatshop? It defies logic. We're up front that we use time tracking tools to enable a global workforce that has been remote first for over a decade. Team members can turn on and off their time tracking whenever they are working or not working. Its simple and straightforward. Clock in to work- then clock out. That's not complicated at all. There's no deceit involved. Don't get frustrated if you're trying to cheat us or your teammates or our clients by misrepresenting how you're using the time you're reporting as working. If you ever really did work here (and aren't just part of this recent pattern of negative reviews without any reliable personal insights) best of luck. If you're just getting paid to plaster us with negative reviews, worst of luck to you.
2.0
Jun 30, 2014

Great Co-Workers, Terrible Upper Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of the employees are great, hard working people who you can easily become friends with. Some benefits include Friday lunches, yoga Wednesdays, and there used to be monthly events but those seem to have petered out this year. There is the potential to learn a lot, and there's never a lack of work for those who like being busy.

Cons

The fact that the CEO felt the need to post a Glassdoor review for his own company is pretty telling - otherwise his approval rate is 0%. The company culture used to be much better, but now it's pretty much nonexistent. The CEO is a micromanager who doesn't really understand what his employees' jobs entail and then undervalues them. A lot of people have been quitting in the last few months and he doesn't replace them, he just shifts the responsibilities to other employees (whether they're qualified or not) who already have huge workloads. Or he replaces them with cheap overseas/remote labor, obviously to increase profit margins despite undercutting quality of work. He also has an inordinate amount of trouble with the female employees, all who eventually quit because they feel picked on, disrespected, or straight up harassed - so women might want to be wary. Overall it's a shame, because the actual employees are great - they just have to bear the burden of having a terrible leader.

2.0
Jun 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Honestly my 8 month stint at Coalition was a fairly positive one as I came to realize I was fairly insulated from what I see as the root of the issue at coalition: the CEO. I really enjoyed most of my co-workers and even continue to work with some of them (who have all left). I also enjoyed the clients, as I got to work directly with them. Benefits were ok and there were free lunches on Fridays and snacks in the office. I came away with a few good projects for my portfolio and some really great relationships (again all with people who also left the company) and I learned a lot about where I do and don't want to work and better recognizing unhealthy environments.

Cons

Like I said I was insulated from a lot of what was happening. I saw questionable things happening in the background that became more and more frequent, and I'm so glad I got out when I did. Though my leaving was because I got another job offer - there were MANY people leaving just before and after me. I believe there was great potential at Coalition, but the person steering the ship didn't have the values that lead to a happy work-place and happy clients and ultimately success. Money and accomplishments mattered more to the CEO than people including clients, co-workers and even those closest to him. I saw this played out in many different ways and continued to hear stories after I left. He has no problem with deceit and lying. I'm sure he sees himself as driven, but that is not someone I want to tie myself to, and doesn't create a safe environment. As other reviewers said: read all the comments. See the themes repeated. I have NO doubt that many of those reviews were commissioned by the CEO.

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