Third Bridge reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,384 total reviews)
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Emmanuel Tahar

73% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Third Bridge has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,384 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Third Bridge employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jun 13, 2017

Good job, wrong fit

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Pros

Offices are largely young, recent college grads with lots of energy and a great work ethic. Kitchen/social space includes breakfast foods and snacks and drinks, frequent team and company socials encourage sense of camaraderie, employees start with three weeks of PTO, and unlimited sick days.

Cons

It feels like much more of a sales position than a research position. It's almost exclusively composed of outreach, and requires a personality unconcerned with bothering people. Persistence and a certain amount of luck are key, here, and if you're not willing or able to put in hours of footwork outside of usual working hours, you will have a hard time meeting monthly targets. It's not a bad job, it just wasn't right for me.

1.0
May 13, 2017

Disappointing

Recommend
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Pros

Young culture and environment with a lot of smart people Can teach you a lot about industries if you have the time to learn

Cons

Management is extremely distrustful of their employees and blames them for anything that goes wrong. If you hit target one month they praise you and if you don't the next month you've regressed and haven't worked hard enough. Target systems do not account for short months, economic impact, or holidays. Management does not seem to know how to scale a business and does a poor job receiving feedback or criticism. Things change very slowly and the attitude is overwhelmingly "this is just how things are done" rather than having the will to innovate. Perhaps this is why margins are so low in the business. Depending on your team leader, you can either have a good or abysmal experience. Team leaders very much play favorites and you're expected to be a cheerleader for the firm. Any criticism of the business or business model is dismissed. The firm rarely hires management level or senior level people from other firms and only promotes internally. While it can be beneficial for career progression, this creates a very closed ecosystem without a lot of outside opinions with a lot of confirmation bias.

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Third Bridge Response
8y
Hi, Thanks for your review. Sorry it has taken a long time to write back to you. A rather uncomfortable read we must say. However, the good news is that since you left the company, we have made the following improvements: We have started hiring staff, including senior staff, from outside of the organisation and the sense that our culture is purely about a closed-ecosystem is not true anymore. Senior management have taken this very seriously. Yes, due to the nature of the industry and the job itself and the areas in which we work, it is sometimes not easy to find the talent that we need to fill in the shoes of people who have left or those who have moved on. However, some staff in the Forum and Connections team have been externally hired. If you have any other points you would like to talk about, please free to drop us an email at theteam@thirdbridge.com - Team Third Bridge
3.0
Apr 25, 2017

BEWARE

Recommend
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Pros

- young people who are all very social - first job opportunities - Rapid Company growth but not personal growth - Pay/subsidize company trips here and there

Cons

- you act like a company slave - No support - Passive Aggressive management - Terrible place to work - Miserable going to work everyday - Management has no idea whats going on with the bottom line. - Extremely extremely high turnover rate and many people leave every month... for a reason

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