Pros
Awesome training with both virtual and hands on. They allow you to expense lunches for both internal and contractors. They have tons of office perks like pin pong tables, corn hole, hockey tables, stress balls, pens, Keurig Machine, blankets, and all the office supplies you can imagine. They hire mostly recent college grads, so the atmosphere is young and fun. Happy hours are awesome, especially when you go to little woodrows for the wings and fried mac n cheese, until they break into your car, but that only happened to 4 of us, yikes! Met some awesome people and made some lifelong friends here.
Cons
Income Potential, I Repeat POTENTIAL. Did both recruiting and account manager for over 3 years and in that time saw over 100 people leave the company just in the Houston area which are three offices. Recruiting is where everyone starts and your assigned to an account manager and aligned to those skill sets. Your success is based on how much effort the account manager puts in. Some struggles would be the constant turn over with account managers and recruiters, the biggest factor to turn over was due to clicks that were formed in the office. You must go with the flow to become successful or even promoted. Ive seen individuals passed on due to them not being with the right crowd. There is a lot of politics in the offices on how people come dressed, attitude, and if they stay late. Hours are from 7:30-6pm and if you were running late in the morning, they would question your commitment and blow it out of proportion. If you were to leave right at 6 same thing would happen, questions the commitment. Favoritism is influenced by their decisions on whether or not to let individuals go. They start all recruiters salary at 33k plus commission and after a year they bump up to 36k plus commission. For account managers they start off at 36k plus commission & car allowance $300 monthly, then after a year your base will drop to 33k in hopes that your business will be where it should be. Pay and politics is the biggest reason why they lose great people. Best advice I received was get in and put in the time to get offers from other companies that value their employees, all other companies love people from Aerotek because of the great training and know that people get burned out there and are not appreciated. You will be forced to recommend a friend to work there, but honestly, I didn't want my friends to go thru all the headaches I went thru when I worked there.
