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The Common Application Reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(35 total reviews)

Jenny Rickard

85% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

The Common Application has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 35 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Common Application employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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35 reviews
2.0
22 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Strong execution capabilities within individual engineering pods. - Good initial learning opportunities for mid-level engineers entering the ecosystem. - Internal peer-to-peer technical collaboration among delivery teams is generally supportive.

Cons

- Micromanagement & Lack of Trust: There is a pervasive culture of over-monitoring and micromanagement stemming from upper management tiers. Minor procedural delays or routine operational pauses are frequently treated as critical performance issues, leading to unnecessary administrative friction and overhead. - Toxic Peer Pressure at Director Level: There appears to be intense systemic pressure among the Director-level leadership. This anxiety and hyper-competitiveness unfortunately bleed downward into the core platform engineering teams. Instead of fostering a collaborative space. it creates an environment of constant, unsustainable push and indirect toxicity. - Stagnant Growth in Core Teams: Career progression within core platform engineering teams is highly restricted. The focus is overwhelmingly shifted toward short-term fire fighting and administrative box-checking rather than long-term technical innovation or structured career growth. - Weak Leadership Boundaries: Internal management tends to pass down external pressures unmodified rather than shielding their senior engineers, leading to high burnout risk for top performers. -Absence of true leadership: in event of issues they scapegoat the leads and senior developer and hold them accountable where in background they keep interfering in development and qa processes without end to end knowledge.

5.0
1 May 2026

Great place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great team and strong sense of purpose

Cons

Confusion around decision making - which agitates people

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