Aerotek reviews

You will work 24/7 but still will be told you aren't working hard enough. They will tell you hours are from 8-6 (seems reasonable) but if you aren't in the office by 7 and don't stay past 6pm, you are lectured. You have to take your computer home and continue to work. My manager once told me I need to be cold calling and taking notes on those calls while I drive into the office to optimize even more time, because who cares about safety? My commute was less than 15 minutes. Unless you are having lunch with a contractor, client, or a manager to help with your "advancement", don't you dare take a lunch break. You're most likely to have a manager that will care more about how much they can make than actually being a leader or doing the right thing. The offices have twice daily stand up meetings that are meant to be for updates on open positions, but most often will be spent nitpicking people and shaming them in front of the whole team. Account Managers can do no wrong and Recruiters can do no right. People get promoted into sales based on performance as a recruiter, but often have no people management skills need for the management that come with that promotion. Sadly, they will reel you in by flashing the dollar signs and saying how great the culture is, but you will be let down when you are being cursed out and working like a horse, seeing little return on your time.

The hours are long and make it difficult to have a life outside of the office. In at 7:30am and out by 6:00 - 6:30pm gets really old fast. 7:30am quickly became 6:30am in the Chicago office when a few recruiters started coming in early because of their train schedule and then others were shamed into not being there at that time too. Saturday hours were really tough too because it didn't provide employees enough time to decompress from the long week before heading into a new one. Sometimes Saturdays were mandatory and sometimes they would do a Saturday by making everyone feel like if they did they would be closer to promotion than their peers by displaying their loyalty and commitment to the company. We were constantly pitted against the other recruiters trying to get promoted. This made the one good thing about the office even more toxic. They also have a strict no dating policy that is not followed in the slightest. But if your director finds out you're both immediately fired. We had multiple hook ups and couples in the office while I was there because no one had enough free time to meet anyone outside the office. The metrics you are held to aren't practical. Recruiters have to find seven new candidates a week, interview all seven, get 10 reference checks and submit 3 candidates to reqs each week. While that sounds achievable, depending on your skill set (Architecture, Engineering, etc.) it can be almost impossible to hit weekly. The pay is decent because at $14/hr and working 60+ hours you're actually making an okay living for being right out of college. The problem is that when you aren't getting promoted because there aren't enough territories to the number of recruiters ready for promotion you'll see friends pass you in pay and then you're back to the drawing board looking for a new job and starting over. If benefits matter to you, this isn't the place for you. Aerotek recruiters and managers get the same benefits that our contractors get which are really bd unfortunately.