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      Third Bridge

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      Third Bridge reviews

      3.3

      57% would recommend to a friend

      (1,382 total reviews)
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      Emmanuel Tahar

      73% approve of CEO

      55% positive business outlook

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      Third Bridge has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,382 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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      3.0
      Nov 26, 2014

      Work not stimulating enough for bright graduates being employed

      Analyst/associate
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      Pros

      I have tried to be as honest and balanced as possible. - The people are great, and the founders are great. - The company is really trying hard to keep graduates engaged. - The perks are good – Thursday and Friday drinks, great central London location, snacks. - The job gives you a high level overview of all industries which is useful if you don’t know what you want to do (but when I say high level, I mean REALLY high level – in so far as a basic understanding of the value chain in the industry). - You can make the job sound very good (primary point of contact for x number of leading consultancies/hedge funds/private equity firms), and the recently updated company website can re-enforce that. - Hones communication skills as the majority of the day (if you are good at your job) is spent on the phone. - Opportunities to meet clients for lunch (analysts at these firms) to “build up relationships.” - You get very good at being productive as you are working on so many projects at once. - If you are a linguist you get to make use of these abilities on a day-to-day basis.

      Cons

      - Lack of development of “hard skills.” Cognolink is often characterised as a consultancy, which it is not, and as such there are no opportunities to build up your “consulting toolkit” – Excel, Powerpoint etc. - Emphasis is being placed on “training” but it is job specific and superficial, not transferable. - No real career progression (From Analyst to Senior Research Associate the job is pretty much the same). - Exit opportunities are poor – leavers often start again on another grad scheme. Although this time with the caveat of being a graduate with a year’s work experience. - Whilst above I mentioned the great perks, the reality is the research team do not have much time to enjoy them as they are chained to their desks. - The majority of the work is looking experts up on LinkedIn, emailing/cold calling people, and scheduling phone calls for clients. This quickly becomes boring. - Doing well with monthly targets is luck of the draw – the projects you work on, the nature of the clients you manage, co-ordinating the diaries of the experts and your clients. - There is a lot of emphasis on metrics and stats, and many bright young grads feel stifled by the micro-management culture.

      5.0
      Oct 15, 2014

      Unrivaled early responsibility, autonomy, meritocratic progression and access to clients

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Young, rapidly growing company (approx. 50% y.o.y) that maintains a start-up culture where you can make a significant impact within weeks of joining. If you are driven enough, you can rise through the ranks quickly and will be rewarded both financially and through career progression (examples of people rising up to manage a team of analysts and roster of clients within 18 months of joining are not uncommon). You will be in front of clients with responsibility for specific accounts within a matter of months. You will learn how they research and analyse industries/companies, and the key topics they consider most important when doing so. Your commercial awareness will grow at an exponential rate – you will learn about industries you never knew existed and how to research and break down industry value chains in a matter of minutes. Very generous incentive scheme with options for secondments abroad and paid qualifications/study support (IMC, CFA level 1, language classes etc) in your first two years. Great working environment and social side to the business (majority of research team are under 30 with Thursday drinks, football, netball teams etc). Intensive training and development plan with a set meeting every month dedicated to discussing feedback and progression with your manager. Everyone’s views are respected and extra-curricular involvement in aspects such as marketing, recruitment and IT are encouraged.

      Cons

      An eye on the bigger picture and self-motivation for continuous learning is a must – it is easy to become robotic and lose interest if you focus on the process based aspects of the job - as with any job. Equally those that approach the job as such, generally do not perform as well and do not get as much out of it. Target/output driven environment can be difficult for some people to handle. External factors that cannot be affected (e.g. last minute changes of deadlines on the client side) can prove frustrating at times when it affects your work.

      1.0
      Oct 8, 2014

      Very unrewarding job

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Nice people and nice founders

      Cons

      You'll spend the majority of your time on Linkedin searching for potential specialists/leads that you then have to inmail or cold call. It's extremely repetitive and unrewarding, not to mention frustrating (most people do not have time or do not want to speak to a stranger). If you're not doing that, you'll be on the phone to existing specialists interviewing them about their knowledge of an industry and subsequently writing their bio. Again very repetitive and unrewarding. The company is targeting graduates from good universities because they want to showcase to clients that smart people are working for the company. However, what they really need is just someone who is relentless on the phone (think a pushy salesman). The company has an extremely high turnover of staff and most people who have recently started are already disillusioned 1-2 weeks in. People really do seem to hate the job (I do not use this word lightly). Although the industry and the company is doing well, and the employees are great people, the job in itself is terrible and I would advise people to stay far away. Do not get fooled when people tell you that "you'll be working with some of the biggest hedge funds, consultancies etc in the world" and "you'll learn so much about different industries". This is wildly misleading because most of the time you'll either be on Linkedin, cold calling, or interviewing people. I will give credit where it's due though. You will learn some useful things, such as dealing with clients, managing projects (very basic projects though, i.e. only compiling a list of people) and working under pressure. Compensation is not too bad either, when you take into account the monthly bonus (however, the target driven environment is exhausting). Below I have not only given "1-stars" because the company in itself offers a good service to the clients and the founders are good people, but the job in itself is awful.

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