Tether Reviews

3.1

50% would recommend to a friend

(23 total reviews)

Stanley Hainsworth

49% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Tether has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 23 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tether employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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23 reviews
1.0
2 May 2018

Don't judge a book by its cover

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

From the outside things look sparkly and great. Inside and behind the curtain-not so great. The stars given are for a few people there who are exceptional at what they do and have integrity. I can't say the same for leadership.

Cons

The honeymoon period doesn't last long. Layoffs happened a year ago. The next day, promotions took place. I understand that sometimes layoffs need to happen, but there are ways to go about it where you treat people like human beings. Laptops were taken right away and it was difficult to get work for further employment. They say they are a family, but really are not when it comes down to it. At least not my definition of family. Supportive, honest, have values. Old school mentality regarding culture such as in your seats at 9am (with coffee in hand) and preferably no coats on chairs. Working from home was also frowned upon. Women had to fight for a breast pumping room and specific medical needs weren’t attended to in a supportive manner. #metoo (things happen, and no action is taken, unconscious bias-no eye contact, ideas not taken from females).

3.0
24 May 2018

Mixed Reviews

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Had the pleasure of working alongside a strong group of creatives. Made some lifelong friendships! Tether attracted some great characters!! Solid work-life balance.

Cons

The culture felt condescending and it was racially-tone deaf. They also let go of all their female creative leads. Had a few "handsy" experiences with a couple members of leadership.

1.0
1 Dec 2014

Playing Web

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Open floorplan Free coffee In Pioneer Square so close to bars to drink the pain away

Cons

Note: This is for the interactive side only. The rest of the company I'm sure does very well with the company's main focus, which is design for video, print, marketing, advertising, etc. *sigh* And yet another Seattle design agency playing web even though they don't understand it. The job, team's capabilities, desire to put out quality work, all of it was misrepresented from Day 1. Fortunately I was able to figure this out within the first few weeks and could re-sign the clients I had dropped for this position. Lots of buzzwords flying around without an understanding of what they mean. No actual experience with modern web or web processes throughout the management team. Stuck on ideas from 10 years ago. It's always a red flag when people that have never built a site before, let alone within the last 5 years, start all of their sentences regarding functionality with "it should only be...", "it shouldn't be more than...", or the ever popular "it's just..." and openly choose to ignore what you're explaining to them. Many blackbox meetings and silo'd conversations happening, no transparency or collaboration. Was left hung out to dry repeatedly, questions and requests for items (information, answers, etc) are consciously and adamantly ignored, actively provides little to no information about projects. Refuses to do their due diligence for projects. For example, purposefully ignoring almost 1 million (out of only 1.6) pageviews a month (paths, drops, etc) on a redesign project simply because the existing site is ugly. That was the last straw for me and I walked. Employees are only paid once a month which raises more than a few alarms on how things are managed.

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