A company using you to make money - Anonymous employee Randstad Employee Review

2.0
Feb 11, 2015
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Pros

Randstad mainly does contract work which is generally short in period and depending on your field of expertise may or may not be a livable salary. These jobs can come from Randstad soliciting companies or the companies soliciting Randstad so there can be a wide variety of jobs. If you are at an entry level or an expert level you can find a job.

Cons

As an employee you are working for Randstad at another company. However you are being paid whatever amount Randstad decides because of the contract worked out in secret between the company and the Randstad (and pretty much all temp agencies). You can never see this contract. You will not be given firm hours or termination dates. You generally will not be able to start a contract with full knowledge of what the actual job entails. The duties listed in whatever job summary you are given are non-binding and are generally vague to begin with. Even if you're at a skilled job it is still possible to be asked to clean toilets. Randstad will also cover the bare legal minimum for healthcare coverage if you wish to join their plan. It is not worth it.

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Loved my team. My Manager was incredibly supportive, understand, and always rooting for myself as well as my teammate's success. Remote work was highly flexible and accommodating.

Cons

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1.0
Apr 27, 2026
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Pros

Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Cons

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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