Company with No Values - werkgeversreview Manager bij Common Thread Collective

1,0
17 jan 2023
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

- Met some great and incredible people and connections there who all quit or were laid off. - Good work life balance in Retention and Expert Buyer programs. - Used to have cool parts of culture until the whole HR department left - Some really awesome clients and cool happy hours. - Ma (former HR employee) - Getting laid off allowed people to get away from this toxic company.

Minpunten

The company was at a crossroads when I started. It could have been great and instead went totally downhill and crashed. Notice all the positive but short reviews right around the same time recently? They pressured new hires into writing them to offset the real reviews. Claims to be a company that cares about employees and has some great culture initiatives like health and wellness competitions but has a cult of toxic positivity in a very back-stabbing (at times), bad-mouthing, company where the CEO and COO clearly do NOT care about their employees at all, blatantly lying to them and conning them. - Lied to entire company saying no one was getting bonuses and then bonused out C-Suite, Growth Strategists, and Creative Strategists (who banded together and all threatened to quit if they weren't paid more despite being a department that hindered instead of helped the company and everyone talked about it an knew it) - Q1 of 2022, seeing the trajectory of the company key members quit because working conditions had become untenable. They were massively overworking employees, couldn't provide us with updated computers or access to key software, and had some managers they promoted with no management experience who had no idea what they were doing. - Two most important departments had no directors due to the fact that they didn't want to pay for directors (direct quote from HR). When they finally got directors, one director wasn't even on the calls to tell people from his own departments he was letting them go because he was so sad he was given the day off. Own it, people are losing their jobs, insurance, and livelihood and you are too embarrassed to tell us? - Had employees who were kept on due to favoritism (especially with the CEO) despite terrible work ethic and lack of any abilities. - Grossly underpaid employees with promises of promotions they would never get, and often when giving raises low balled the employees, not allowing for negotiation despite having room in the budget to pay them more. - Lost all their good management and buyers and filled them with warm bodies who were totally useless and couldn't perform their job if they even actually tried. - Mentioned in other reviews, had 3 rounds of layoffs and laid everyone off at the end of the month so they lost insurance after 1 day. - Didn't teach CS's anything about Facebook so they would come to buyers to help them. - CEO never made time to meet management. - For management - weekly mandatory meetings (which were often totally not helpful or needed averaged about 17 hours a week) - Required 7 day work weeks recently. - Lies to employees telling them how safe and secure their jobs are while having a list of these same employees as being the next to be laid off.

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5,0
7 jan 2026
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

Lots of learnings, working with great people and clients

Minpunten

Hard work, as expected in agency life

1,0
19 jul 2025
Anonieme werknemer
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

You will learn quick what to avoid in future companies and employees. Every role after will be a breath of fresh air.

Minpunten

CTC is a chaotic, ego-driven mess, churning and burning employees and clients. CEO Taylor Holiday is a wannabe Twitter influencer playing entrepreneur, surrounded by an inner-circle of unqualified buddies. Strategy changes constantly, positive reviews are fabricated, departments are dissolved on a whim, and layoffs are routine. CTC demands unrealistic output from overworked employees, all while preaching a fake culture of “transparency” and “work-life balance.” Transparency means hyped-up financial updates paired with weird parties and alcohol, followed immediately by entire department layoffs. Work-life balance means 60 hour work weeks with a level of micromanagement I haven’t seen before or since. Not convinced yet? Welcome to leadership meetings where no one has a plan and everyone is too afraid to say the truth. Staying close to the in-crowd matters more than results or performance because it might just keep you your job. I’ll never forget CTC’s empty promises about development and achieving dreams, all while exploiting, discarding, and abusing everyone in sight. If you value your career, mental health, or basic respect, stay far away.

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