Great salesman! - Anonymous employee Bridge Partners Employee Review

1) The operational structure of the company (it is a pyramid and supports the top ... thus challenging the vision and mission of it being about the people). 2) The leaders. Most are great salesmen who simply cannot manage, instruct or lead teams... making what they sell die on the vine or wither after a few months if they don’t select good consultants. 3) A talent and HR staff who completely lacks understanding and empathy towards who they serve, and does not listen when talking with them. One has literally set a timer while talking with me and also talked over me for an entire 20 minutes. The leadership changes in the last year, have cost the firm it’s empathetic culture. 4) Advancement. How this works and why some get to advance vs others vs why some are on salery vs why some are on project based pay astonishes people. Bridge vacillating between being flat and hierarchical. They need to pick one and apply a pay structure to it... it’s all over the place and people/consultants know about it. This vacillating comes across as favoritism, disorganization and at its worse ... greedy. It’s caused more than three I know to leave. 5) Culture and alignment of values. You aren’t a people firm, you’re a consulting firm that sells talent to high end clients so they can solve specific business problems. Ain’t nothing wrong with it. Please, stop with the “we are about the people”... you’re not. Especially with the low EQ HQ HR team you have.