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      Common Thread Collective

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      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

      Ratings by category

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.9

      Senior management

      2.8

      Work/Life balance

      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 Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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      125 reviews
      1.0
      Jul 19, 2025

      You will be exploited, discarded, and abused.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

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

      Cons

      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.

      2.0
      Dec 30, 2022

      Broken Dreams

      Designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people, pay and benefits.

      Cons

      You will quickly find the amount of work expected of you to be overwhelming. You are constantly competing for your job against outsourcing. There are terrible decisions Made with finance. When your company has 2 rounds of layoffs, and shuts down an entire department, and then the very next week your CEO decided to announce a summer home for himself and employees only in California it really makes you feel like less of human and more like a disposable number.

      2.0
      Aug 31, 2022

      Tell Me Your Nightmare

      Retention specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Amazing coworkers, and direct managers were also top notch. 2. Onboarding and training is thorough and well organized. 3. Work/life balance, in the Retention department, at least, was important and strongly emphasized. 4. Pay was decent. 5. Benefits were good. 6. Lots of genuinely diverse hiring. First company I've ever worked out where white people actually seemed to be largely in the minority, or at least well balanced out.

      Cons

      You know that old adage about if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is? Yeah. It's agonizing to have to say this, but, CTC is chockful of promises and progressive ideals and values, but at the end of the day, this is still a for-profit company with a load of leadership fails. I wanted to believe so badly. But it only took a couple months before the dream became a nightmare. The layoffs were swift and cutthroat. There was no communication with my direct managers that it was happening until right before it happened; no explanation for those us getting the axe; the CEO didn't show his face in these meetings to give us the courtesy of doing this to our faces (despite the whole "open communication" value he espouses all the time); we got ten minutes before our computers were remotely shut off; and the crowning achievement of garbage treatment: we were let go on the last day of the month so that we got screwed out of being able to get any last minute medical stuff done before losing our insurance. There are STILL people from this wave of layoffs struggling to find another job. Most of us were originally drawn away from good and stable jobs by the promise of something better. I've literally been treated better and more courteously by companies run by Trump voters than by this "progressive" company. I recently heard from past coworkers that another round of layoffs happened in August. Woof. This company is bleeding out financially and it's the employees that pay the price. Never the people at the top, of course. PS this place is a legitimately a cult of toxic positivity.

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