iCIMS Reviews

Pros

The marketing dept. is quite honestly the most collaborative and hard-working team I've ever worked with. I feel like everyone is rooting for my success and wants to help me succeed. I was really nervous to join the team because I worked under a vista company in the past and succumbed to a lot of tiring changes when my company was acquired. When I joined this team my ideas were heard, my voice was valued, and my time was appreciated. I'm several weeks in and still feel this way. I'm truly blown away by the team dynamic of my department.

Cons

I wish my onboarding process dove deeper into what our company can offer to our customers. I want to learn more about what I stand behind!! Our outlook cals are all marked as busy, but we don't have any insight as to who is doing what and when. People disregard the blocks people have, so dozens of meetings just get thrown on calls without regard for availability. It's a time suck that these things aren't transparent. I'll honestly say that I had to be nitpicky here. I left a big company with great benefits to come here and I DO NOT look back on a SINGLE day and regret it. iCIMS has amazing benefits, is respectful of work-life balance, and is just truly a place where I feel valued, supported, and honestly want t ostay long term.

Pros

I came from the transportation industry and it has truly been amazing to work for iCIMS. The managers are top notch, the director is there when you need him, and the entire sales team wants to see you succeed. Everyone on the SDR team is there when you need them and extremely helpful. The amount of technology and tools you have at your disposal is truly next to none! If you are looking to jump in the SaaS world, iCIMS is a fantastic place to start your career!

Cons

None that I know of yet.

Pros

Solid Benefits, work from home is available, liberal atmosphere

Cons

All of the positive reviews are from employees that are TOLD to give the glassdoor rating 5 stars while they are being onboarded in their first week. This company was THE place to work 5 years ago. Best software company in NJ hands down. Unfortunately, since vista equity bought the company and pushed all of the good managers out, all that's left is a strangely political environment with majorly clashing plans for how the company should run. I am an account manager and am currently looking for a new gig. The hours are impossible, the amount of stress and pressure put on the sales organization are unrealistic, and the growth goals are crippling the company. Several of the newer acquisitions have been completely mismanaged, and all of your coworkers will change on a weekly basis. The company tells us to promise features that never come or get pushed back into the next quarterly release. When we lose customer data, we are told to lie to the customer.

Pros

Health benefits, unlimited PTO, office/lifestyle reimbursement (although you will pay tax out of your paycheck on it). There are a few good leaders left out there, but they're the exceptions and not the rule.

Cons

A complete crash in culture and work-life balance. When I began at iCIMS, I was ecstatic. A "NJ best place to work" that valued its employees in a beautiful workplace setting. I walked in the door with every intention of making iCIMS my career. I was greeted by an incredible onboarding and training team and continued my love story; I left one of those required sparkly reviews at the 90-day mark like all those you see here. Not long after onboarding, however, we found out that our CEO and Founder, Colin Day, would be leaving. In his stead was a new energetic CEO, Steve Lucas, who had previously ran and sold another SaaS company for our parent investor, Vista. Steve started in February 2020, Covid came March 2020, and everything fell apart from there. Nearly the entire C-level suite left shortly after his arrival, and were quickly replaced by his friends, many from SAP. A large "reduction in force" or "layoff" came in April 2020. Covid was blamed, but it's become clear this would have happened anyway and instead the pandemic was a convenient excuse. The cuts were too deep, made in order to make the company look more profitable in an attempt to sell us; unfortunately, no one ever bought. The remaining staff quickly encountered a clientele that were needier than ever -- receiving more applications from applicants than ever before due to high unemployment, and needing changes to their existing protocols and procedures on a short timeline. Services/Support especially found themselves bearing the brunt: Sales began overpromising the software to close desperately needed deals, only for clients to hit implementation and find out we weren't what was promised. Implementation provided minimal training, releasing major clients into a "live" environment with minimal to no understanding of the system. A new SVP was assigned to the division, coming from SAP like so many of the new c-levels, but came from a whole different culture of call centers and seemed to give little regard to our already crashing work-life balance. First came the offer of a "pizza party" to work 5 extra hours on Saturday -- $25 whole dollars on Doordash! When virtually no one accepted, 5 mandatory unpaid hours of overtime were instituted per week for every TSE instead. Eventually that was rolled back, replaced instead by the forced assignment of more cases than could be handled during work hours, forcing you to either stay late or drown. Huge extra case dumps were assigned to you before you were allowed to take holidays. The time allowed off the phones to focus on those force assigned cases and your existing workload had already been "temporarily" rolled back from 2 hours a day, to 1.5 hours, eventually to 1 hour a day. You were expected to be on the phone the other 7 hours actively taking new cases via phone. Wait times for client calls began to creep up. Higher level/tenured resources across the company began to leave, seeing the writing on the wall. The CEO began giving the entire company extra "recharge" PTO days to "avoid burnout" which helped many departments, but no one in Support were allowed to take the extra days. (We were paid extra, but this does little to cure burnout.) Wait times reached sometimes up to 5-6 hours for clients to reach someone via phone. There was always someone on hold. Clients were waiting up to 4 weeks for a first response to email cases, prioritized by how much they pay. The mantra was if it was urgent, they would call in, so these weren't a priority. iForm work was outsourced to a team in India, rather than hire or train here, and leadership talked about how eventually they would start taking basic cases and calls as well. Some managers went weeks without speaking to their reports at all, while one new manager went full micromanagement on the entire department, questioning the length of bathroom breaks and after-call work. Team meetings were canceled repeatedly due to volume, leaving everyone feeling like they were just floating alone out at sea. Tenured managers began to quit. No training was provided before each release, leaving support to react to client issues in real time with new products and changes they had never experienced before. No learning, no growth. When complained about, the response was to create a mandatory 5-hour training session on a Sunday in June, in addition to your existing work schedule. If you took time off using your generous 'unlimited pto', the work just piled up. I took a week off, no one monitored the cases, and clients waited over a week for a reply. I had to wade through the 9-11 new email cases I was force assigned per day on return, the clients who needed replies for the entire week, plus 7 hours of phone volume a day. Some colleagues would take a PTO day then work anyway just to catch up. Almost the entire tenured TSE staff left for new higher-paying jobs with less stress, causing a monumental knowledge drain. This wasn't just the case in Support -- Integrations lost 70% of their tenured staff from what I heard. AMs, TAMs, and CSMs leaving weekly. Big clients having no idea who their point of contact even was anymore. And we tried to speak up, tried to say what was happening, and nothing changed. Now it's too late. The iCIMS that once was is no longer.

Pros

Plenty of internal mobility if you want to stay but change your role

Cons

company has lost touch of employees and how they feel and prioritises it's own product development and not what customers are asking for.

Pros

Supportive teammates Great work-life balance Friendly and inclusive environment Flexible schedule

Cons

Not learning much Too much churn in organizational structure is having a negative impact on company culture