Great company to work for - Consultant Xander Talent Employee Review

Great environment and cool people

Not enough benefits and compensation

Nice people in cohort. Good training. Some members of the core team were nice.

They make you write these glassdoor reviews while you're there as part of the 'Branding project'...which is why there are contrasting reviews. You won't get paid during your training, but will still be charged if you decide to leave. You get paid on awful wage while on the bench, where you will likely be there for a while. You will be given many useless tasks, nothing to do with what you are there to do, yet will get more cohorts in. They say they only get rid of people due to performance, but multiple ex-employees have said they received no warning. I was on the 3rd cohort and there were people from the 1st cohort ho hadn't been placed. They said it was because they didn't perform, but most people have said it was because they were putting them up for roles that they did not sign up for. The worst part of the experience, by far, are the sales staff, especially the two leading (male and female member of staff). They hardly interact with you, apart from when they want to tell you that you're not doing enough to get placed (even though this is their job, what they are paid to do). They complain that we are not being visible, but when we try to speak to them, they are busy. They even asked a few members of the cohort to reach out to people on linkedin and try getting placed...basically their whole job, and then blamed those people for not getting placed. I'm not sure what they do, apart from make a few cold calls, tell the team the same list of clients they are in contact with and then spend time gossiping to other members about how bad the cohorts are. The CEO and COO who seem like decent people need to take a look at their sales staff and how they behave and conduct themselves. They are not doing the key part of their job, finding clients and placing people, while blaming the people who they are supposed to help. If they are asking members of the cohort to find the client and finding themselves the placement, for them to get the commission...what do they do exactly?