A company going through Awkward Adolescence phase - Senior Research Associate Third Bridge Employee Review

- The quality of middle management varies WILDLY. There are great managers and VPs, and at the same time, some extraordinary dreadful ones. Favouritism and Nepotism is common occurrence unfortunately; and some of the behaviour from middle management towards junior staff is frankly disgraceful. - The work is tedious and boring. It is a quasi recruiting role and the main KPI is amount of cold calls made; and new experts recruited to the network. The research work is very superficial and next to no analytical work is required. - There are very limited technical or transferrable skill sets that you can take from this job. When you boil it down, this job consists of just call scheduling for more accomplished people. - The compliance framework can be a joke. Most of what we do is find someone who is willing to provide insider information; and sell it to our clients. A House of Cards that can come down at any moment... - The main pain point of the company is the outdated performance metric system, called the "triangulator". As the Co-Founder and Former COO of the company admitted, this system that he created for fun has become a "monster". A whole thesis paper can be devoted to evaluate and assess how this ridiculous system is the fundamental reason why retention rate is so low, and why staff turn over rate is so high. - The compensation scheme is outdated and not competitive comparing to the rest of the industry. The OTE bonus can be ridiculous and a new joiner on his/her 2nd month can earn more than a higher ranked employee who has been here for a year.