Pros
Cosmetic perks to compensate for the lack of an actual culture. ("Look! We're a cool company because we have a ping-pong table!!!") Ironically, despite all of the fake facing socials our team was told to go to, nothing brought me and my coworkers closer together than discussing how much we hated working here. When I announced I was leaving to take on a different role, two-thirds of my team privately texted me sharing their dissatisfaction with their roles and their future plans to escape. Half my team eventually quit within a month.
Cons
If you don't know what the role is, as an associate you are responsible for sourcing prospective consultants to speak on trends, markets, and industries on behalf of large consulting firm clients. You either source these consultants through an internal database of people ThirdBridge already has or through recruiting consultants using your personal LinkedIn (Yes, your LinkedIn will be need to used for you to succeed in this role). Your performance is measured by target numbers from formulas based on the amount of consultants who spoke with your client, the duration of each consultation, and the price that the client had to pay per consultant. This is essentially a sales role. You are calling, emailing, texting, and LinkedIn messaging as many consultants as you can to increase the likelihood of delivering consultants for your client. You can expect to call upwards of 100+ people per day asking for them to consult. If you schedule them for a consultation and they back out (FOR WHATEVER REASON) it's your fault and responsibility to make them keep the appointment. The project managers (client associates) who assign you who to call for these projects are measured on the same metrics you are, and will often give themselves the best first slice of the cheapest, most available consultants to call to wrack up easy points for their target numbers. There were many times I caught project managers either calling my own list of leads and giving themselves points, or would give me a list of people they already called through first. The worst part of this role is just how many projects you're placed on at a given time, so you are constantly being interrupted in the middle of your call throughs, being asked to "check in" for separate projects to call more people. This isn't "multi-tasking" or a "fast-paced environment," this is drowning in so many people to call, so many interruptions, so much micro-management that you can't realistically hit your targets without putting in significant extra hours after work (oh yeah, Third Bridge got sued for breaking NY Wage and Labor Laws regarding overtime hours). The office culture is dystopian; everyone comes together bi-weekly for a powerpoint of who in the office has the most consultation points for public applause and praise, free booze is then given out in the afternoon. I've seen people cry in the bathroom and have panic attacks. I know people who've developed eating-disorders here, skipping meals for the sake of clients (my manager lied that I only had 30 minutes for lunch when I was supposed to have more). Heck, I even had someone tell me that their roommate who worked at TB once started sleeping walking and having night terrors because she was so stressed out from working here. I've seen people quit after 2 weeks of starting. I personally started planning my exit strategy after my third day of onboarding once I learned what the job really entailed.