Common Thread Collective reviews

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.

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.