I worked remotely on a contract for the largest search engine company, and it wasn't a good experience. I decided to end my year contract after only a few months.
Employee onboarding takes forever! It is a long and unorganized process. I was passed around to so many different people at Adecco; it was ridiculous! My final point of contact at Adecco was rude and never answered questions.
As an employee of Adecco, I felt like a number (employee #4,567). The benefits at Adecco are terrible. You have to work 1,000 hours or six months to receive holiday pay, zero PTO benefits, and the sick pay is accrued very slowly over time. I was there for three months (40 hrs per week) and only accrued 14 hours of sick leave.
I'm unsure about the health and other medical benefits since I didn't sign up. I shared my benefits with my point of contact for the project, and she was shocked. I'm sure the pay is low compared to what they are paying Adecco. I had two different job titles (project manager and program manager), so I'm unsure which is correct.
I worked with a team at the largest search engine, and I felt like a personal secretary to my point of contact there. I was spoon-fed my work, and some days I didn't have anything to do. My point of contact for the project was always stressed, and everything was always URGENT. She seemed overworked and always in meetings. She never had time for me, including training. She worked late nights and weekends all the time. One of the reasons I decided to find another role was that her work style and management style were unhealthy and toxic, and her communication was poor.
Another thing is I didn't get credit for any of the work I had done; sometimes, my work was changed by my point of contact and presented to the team as if she had done the work. Sometimes I was in meetings and wasn't acknowledged by the other team members. The microaggressions were atroucisous.
The role was probably more fitting for someone fresh out of high school or college without much work experience. I would never work for either company again!
