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Common Thread Collective Reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(125 total reviews)
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Taylor Holiday

51% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Common Thread Collective has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 125 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Common Thread Collective employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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125 reviews
1.0
19 May 2023

Abusive workplace - no bones about it

Anonymous employee
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Pros

2 years ago, it was the best place I have ever worked. Quite possibly the best place I will ever work. 2021 CTC had my heart and soul.

Cons

After the hire of a nestle corporate person into the exec team, the company spiraled. This new exec drove the good leadership out, leaving only the CEO's longtime buddies and her own yes-people in place. Horrible business decisions led to multiple rounds of layoffs, more than a few attempted in secret. Client retention is abysmal. But worse - the culture at CTC devolved into of true workplace abuse. I have witnessed open bullying, screaming at employees, and backstabbing, in addition to the various normal suckiness of a corporatey corporate environment. Clients are also allowed to treat employees however they want. I personally experienced more misogyny in my last year at CTC than in the previous many years of my career. I witnessed clients say extraordinarily racist things to employees, and not only did the exec team do nothing, they actively prevented the targeted employee from getting a new job when they found out afterwards he was looking. I think the other recent reviews speak well to the general issues of the culture at CTC. But it needs to be known that this environment has gone beyond just bad. It is not a safe environment for work anymore.

2.0
3 Jan 2024

Laid off our entire department without severance

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits Team building exercises Focus on building strong remote culture

Cons

My entire department was cut without notice after we transferred all our files to a different server. We were unceremoniously given less than a week to return our computers and threatened that it would be considered theft if we did not do so in that time frame. None of us received any form of severance as we were told the company couldn’t afford to do so. It was one of the worst, harshest lay offs of my entire career and something that has scarred me from working with many other performance marketing companies. I was scared to leave this review before but I feel it needs to be said that this was unkind to so many. And I watched too many of my former coworkers suffer for over a year afterwards. I had to take on debt as most of us were not in the role for even a full year, so I was not financially prepared to take this kind of hit.

2.0
2 Apr 2023

Wish I would have known...

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Pros

Health Benefits, Learning, Colleagues, Data, Clients

Cons

CEO having a lack of direction, Client Churn, Talent Churn. This organization is slowly turning into a small melting pot of the CEO's buddies. And whoever is willing to be yelled at in their small WeWork office in Newport Beach. I was sold on the remote first opportunity but that has recently started to change. I could see the favoritism for people who could actually come into the office very clearly. Heard they even have a forced dress code now because they want to be the "Harvard Business Review of E-comm", which is hilarious cause none of the talent has worked anywhere else. They are all trying to immolate Taylor Holiday who got lucky with his success. Either way the younger (green) employees don't know the opportunities that are out there for them and are stuck in a game of guilt and shaming from the CEO. Oh and they axed their entire HR department. Like completely got rid of them to have one of the CEO's buddies "coach" employees. I think we could all see the motive of that transition. And it is not in favor of the employee. I wish I would have known sooner... that I could have been making more $ elsewhere and have better work / life balance. Only regret is that I didn't leave sooner.

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