Common Thread Collective Reviews

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.

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.