CT reviews

4.2

81% would recommend to a friend

(258 total reviews)

Joel Gross

82% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

CT has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 258 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The CT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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258 reviews
1.0
Oct 25, 2019

Do not recommend

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work remotely. Had a few cool coworkers.

Cons

Way way way way overworked. They're hiring too many clients for how many employees they have and for *how much turnover there is*. Work really long hours. Are forced to install software that takes screenshots of your screen constantly AND of you. Upper management spy on your gchat conversations! The CEO is such a micromanager. I would not have stayed as long as I had but had to due to my living situation.

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CT Response
6y
Hi Anon- Glad you enjoyed both the remote work opportunity and our team members (although, I would argue that the majority of them qualify as "cool" or better). I don't call out all our negative reviews as being fake. Some just very obviously are. Yours clearly is not although I do believe some of your comments are off base, even if the feelings behind them are genuine. I can respect that difference. Responding to your concerns: 1. Overworked. I've flagged this in a few other reviews but the reality is that in spite of our enormous growth, we've actually outpaced the volume of new client work with new hires. We have more team members today per client, and more team member hours per client hour, than ever before. I try and be proactive in providing coaching to team members who feel overworked because often its the result of self-inflicted pressures or misunderstandings of what should be prioritized. This is an area we can constantly improve upon, and your feedback here just reinforces that. 2. Micromanagement. Coalition wants to continue to set a high standard for our industry in nearly every facet of our business. And to do that, our leadership continues to be involved in the day to day operations of the company and our work for our clients. We're not ashamed of that. We do ask that you CC us on communication with clients because it provides us chances to provide coaching, training, and even positive feedback to team members. Further, it ensures the senior leadership team is engaged and informed with clients. Its also very reassuring to our clients to know that we are immediately accessible. RE: Music. Joel sends out reminder emails that stress some best practices for productive work (remote or otherwise). He and I have been working at this for a long time, and there are plenty of studies that show that listening to fast paced music, or music with lyrics is distracting and engages your brain in a fashion similar to multi-tasking (which results in information loss, more difficulty paying attention, etc). No one monitors your music choice or playlist. We just have found certain things to be helpful for us, and we pass those on to you. I'd hazard to guess that of our nearly 200 team members, most of them are able to take that sort of advice or leave it. RE: Cell phone use. You work from home or another remote location. You're allowed to use a cell phone when you need or want to. However, using a cell phone while billing time to a client is a breach of their trust and is something we don't tolerate. We value our clients' financial commitment, and we expect you to do the same. As a professional, with a remote work situation, and the ability to easily clock in or out of a client project with a single click, there's no excuse to be billing clients for personal cell phone use. That pattern of behavior reflects poorly on you, not on us. We've all been in that situation where an employee of a business we visit is ignoring customers for something on social media- and we've all hated the feeling of being an inconvenience when we're paying customers. We never want our clients to have that perception. I'm guessing where ever you go for future employment will have the same reaction to ours. Ignoring clients or misbilling them for your FOMO is just entirely inappropriate and unprofessional. Finally, as you well know from your over a year of employment, we don't offer any incentives for positive reviews. Best of luck in your next role! Hopefully your time with us results in some personal and professional growth that leads to furthering your career and advances you towards your personal goals.
1.0
May 13, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Profit-sharing, Bi-weekly payments, Flexible working hours allowed in one week after requesting

Cons

always on camera, records your everything, doesn't care about your privacy, so much micromanagement, no long term growth

3.0
Aug 10, 2023

Great people but a lot of work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work on very different projects all with new and different challenges, people are nice and it feels inclusive and diverse in terms of culture. Quick to earn raises. Perhaps the hardest you’ll ever work in your life so if you can handle CT then you can handle anything. Builds character as they say.

Cons

Definitely the time tracking software because it takes webcam shots. The screenshots and time tracking portion is less of an issue and understandable why they do it. The webcam shots are a severe sign of a lack of trust of employees which isn’t a nice thing to think about of your employer. The hiring quality is usually poor.

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CT Response
2y
Not enough here to respond to but I'll highlight a weird cognitive disconnect- "Great people" and "hiring is poor" (heck, we hired you, didn't we?). The web cam shots help ensure people are focused on working for our clients while they pay us for our time. It is simply a way we help to strengthen the sense of value in our costs for those who are hiring us. Its an unfortunate and very common reality for companies that offer remote work that some (not all) people are dishonest and do cheat/lie/steal through misreporting time. Its one of the more common news stories coming out of the boom in WFH/remote work. Its also the reason that so many companies are pulling back from remote work. "Overemployment" should be viewed as fraud in many cases. If someone is paying you for their time and you take that pay, but use that time for someone else, who is also paying you, you're stealing. Not sure how else to look at it. Its not the same thing as holding two jobs on different hours or project based work. Web cam and screenshots help protect Coalition's clients from that occurrence (and it does happen with significant frequency in remote work and work from anywhere experiences). Think about it this way- if you have a team of 3 people, and one person on that team is stealing from clients through fraudulent 'overemployment', 33% of the cost of that team is being wasted. Maybe you argue that 33% of employees won't operate that way, but even if its 1 out 10, that's still 10% of the investment our client's make being stolen. In our way of thinking (and we believe in our clients' way of thinking), the target for waste and fraud should be 0%. We may not make it that far, but Time Doctor helps us keep everyone at Coalition accountable to our clients from the most senior to the most junior.
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