Aerotek reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,468 total reviews)

Tom Kelly

78% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Aerotek has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 6,468 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Aerotek employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Recursos humanos e pessoal industry (3.8 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Jan 20, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The training program was fairly good. The modules are very boring, but lots of good information. I hear they recently changed it to be more hands on which is good. The health insurance was not bad. They plan fun group outings, so you can get to know your co workers. Very young environment, flexible if you have a doctor appt.

Cons

No work like balance. You are required to work 48 hours, but really the job never ends! Candidates are constantly emailing you late at night and of course you reply because you want to fill the position. You are required to talk candidates to lunch twice a week. You pay for it yourself, but are reimbursed after filling out an expense report, kind of annoying they don't give you a company card. You can't even make commission your first 3 months there and the pay is $12 an hour, but the 8 hours is overtime at least. Still very low pay $33k. Recruiters in the office I heard were making 90k, so the money is there but they work late hours or take their computers home. They had also been recruiting for a few years. It was like working in a sorority frat house, very unprofessional. A lot of swearing and talking down. Objects flying across the room, hitting people in the face. Your experience definitely depends on who you get as an account manager. Except they promote recruiters to account managers and some have never managed people before, so a manager who doesn't know how to manage! Mine came in the office smelling like alcohol many times!! So unprofessional! When the DBO is in the office, everyone is on their best behavior, sure wish he had visited more often. Every day you are put on the spot TWICE in Red Zone, meetings where you all stand around the board and talk about what position you are filling and when you will fill it. It's stressful because I'd you havent filled your spot, everyone knows. They want you making 50-100 calls a day, so if you don't like talking to strangers it's not the job for you. I left after 13 weeks and have never been so disrespected. The DBO the one person i respected screamed at me, chased me down the hall as I was leaving for the day and the whole office saw! It was such a toxic environment I had to get out! Also, 6 people left in the 3 months I was there, talk about high turn over rate. Had I known it was so high, I would have never left my other job for this opportunity. I hear other offices are better, I asked to switch to a different one as other account managers seemed to have it together better than mine, but I was told I had to stay where I was.

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1.0
Jan 13, 2011
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

It is an entry into the recruiting world because they always seem to have many openings if you are desperate for work.

Cons

Boiler room situation, posting of fake jobs on job boards, poor pay, no personal time off, the need to always bring job seekers into the office eve when they were no available jobs.

1.0
Apr 29, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

I built the strongest relationships with my fellow recruiters here because we were all so incredibly stressed and had to constantly lean on each other.

Cons

Upon my second week, my manager pulled me into her office and made me cry after badgering me about how I didn't seem "engaged" in my training (the hours, the commute, and the expectations were all so overwhelming). When I apologized for getting emotional she stated "Oh don't worry, crying at Aerotek is normal", and was it ever. The activity expectations for this role were ludicrous. Instead of being able to focus on recruiting with purpose, you were constantly stressed over wondering if you made enough dials, ran enough reference checks, created enough sell packages, etc etc. The amount of weekly work that was required for this single role should've been handled by 3 different people. I was easily spending 60+ hours per week in office and still was barely scraping by with their activity expectations of 30 phone screens per week, 7 in person interviews, 5 submittals, 10 reference checks, 70 dials, and 10 new applications. On top of this you had to do interview preps, interview debriefs, AND try to set on site meetings for Account Managers. Also, many weeks, we'd have a team of 5 recruiters working on 2 open positions so it was near impossible to make any traction on your "spread". It was also impossible to keep other recruiters out of your "pipeline" as I ran across many situations where other Aerotek recruiters would I stayed in this role for a full year and it never got easier. The amount of micro-management I received was nauseating. I received texts from my manager on tasks to do starting at 6am all the way up until 8pm. It was a grind. Recruiters are left to do all the grunt work for Account Managers, it is a very challenging job. If you're interested in working for a company with a revolving door, this is your place. The employee retention is awful. Not only do people leave for better roles left and right, but management places employees on performance plans regularly if their spread drops or they're not on their "growth line". Which, both of these things can be entirely out of your control if you're working with the wrong clients, or many contractors finish their contracts around the same time. I would say that I learned a lot from my experience with Aerotek, but I'm honestly not sure if the PTSD from the toxic work environment was worth it. Aerotek claims to be a "family" but it's really just a company filled with gossip and lack of accountability. No matter how many negative review they receive, their old fashion culture and values will never change. They claim "at the end of the day we're a business". Which is such a backwards phrase considering how much money they waste on internal employees leaving left and right. The day I walked out that door, was the first day I felt like I could breathe again since the day I started.

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