Aerotek Reviews

Pros

Culture People Leadership Fun Lucrative

Cons

Competitive Base salary Placements Promotions Location

Pros

People, client interaction, account skills

Cons

Overworked, lofty expectations, management, politics

Pros

Good training for recruiters, time passes fast when at job, met alot of people and made connections, can be promoted fast, opportunity to make commission, lunches and meals with people you have placed into jobs can be expensed

Cons

Cult like culture, long hours in office, have to be available always for calls and extra work and work on weekends, low starting pay, little room for advancement if you do not want to be in sales. High turnover. Management cares and asks too much about peoples personal lives, often leads to manipulative and toxic conversations. Most managers are micromanagers and don't walk the walk. Recruiters and admins get the brunt end of things. Little accountability for account managers and senior staff

Advice to Management

Replace your management especially the people at the top. This is not a normal place to work

Pros

Great sales training, a lot of growth opportunity

Cons

Extremely long hours, work you to the ground

Pros

The feedback I get from managers and their investment in my development is unmatched by other companies that I've worked at.

Cons

Hours are more than other jobs but the job is fun.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing

Pros

The people you work with in your office will generally be the best part of the job. Despite being compared to each other constantly, I still found a great camaraderie among my peers and felt that we all genuinely wanted to help each other and see each other succeed. The training is very good especially for the people who are fresh out of college and haven't been introduced to the professional world yet. It is a good place to gain experience and build your resume .

Cons

As I mentioned, recruiters are constantly compared to each other and you feel like you are always walking around with a number above your head. Upper management is extremely micromanaging and you feel you are forced to do things that aren't even beneficial to your actual goals, but you do them just to keep people off of your back. They try and preach "do what works best for you" but they definitely don't practice it. I can talk about the work-life balance and the hours, however in my case they were very transparent about that during the interview process. If you are extremely money motivated and don't care about having a personal life or a family, this could be a great place for you, but if you want those things I would think twice.

Advice to Management

Truthfully I don't have much advice for upper management because Aerotek will never change the way that they do things no matter how many good people they lose. I guess my advice to Account Managers would be to treat your recruiters like adults and don't bully them into doing certain things because you are being hounded to do so, stick up for your recruiters when necessary.

Pros

Good environment, open to listening

Cons

Late nights, too much stress

Pros

Salary Fun culture Experience and exposure

Cons

Work/life balance Too much involvement in task other than recruiting

Advice to Management

It would be a lot more efficient to have a person for administratory tasks designated to an office. A lot of people are overwhelmed and working long hours because they do everything to do with their candidates. They could be spending that time recruiting instead. There is always a way to cheat the system and some use it for their “friendly competition”. That creates tension amongst peers. You can get promoted very fast! It’s a wonderful opportunity however when that happens you also have to manage people. Some are great at the job but don’t know how to manage or should not manage.