Common Thread Collective reviews

CTC destroyed my belief in what a positive company culture could look like. A full 2 weeks of onboarding led me to believe that deep down, CTC actually cared about their employees. I genuinely believed their core values, flexible WFH policy, generous PTO, and emphasis on protecting the mental health of workers while fostering their growth as employees were REAL. I was so relieved for one single moment I had found a good place to work, that when reality hit me square in the face, I was in denial for months. They champion work life balance but nothing could have been further from the truth. I worked an average of 50 hours a week (the company's supposed policy is "to not work more than 30 hours a week including meetings") The understanding that communication is the best thing possible because "Clear is Kind" backfired on multiple employees who shared genuinely concerning feedback on their experiences. Retaliation was real and power dynamics were routinely abused. I was gaslit about adjusting the size of my workload so many times, I just stopped asking. The company downsized by almost half its size by the time I was laid off (as part of the fifth or sixth round of lay offs in 2022 alone). I didn't even get to work here for a year but I had the highest score possible on all my performance reviews. This company is failing more than it is succeeding, and it's because the CEO is a former major league baseball player who runs the business like it's his favorite hobby, oblivious to the lives and careers he destroys along the way. He apparently built the company to "help entrepreneurs achieve their dreams," but all he has done is crush mine and plenty of others' to smithereens. I wish I would have saved myself the heartache and never joined Common Thread Collective.

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.