Aerotek reviews

Absolutely awful work life balance (you get death stares if you leave before 5:30pm even though they say it’s a 7:30-5pm job) You start off on hourly pay until you hit a certain spread to make salary. They trick you because the base salary is high but the commission structure is horrendous. You have to be very good at the job before making any commission (hit a spread of 8,000). Very fast paced and you’re forced to stay late if you don’t identify a candidate by the deadline. You will be worn out after making 80+ calls a day (trust me). They track every call you make. You have to hit certain metrics by the end of the week before you can leave work. Even if you have had a very successful week and closed on lots of business doesn’t matter. You better make those calls and hit your numbers. Terrible office politics with this company as well. The CE (contract engineering) team has higher spreads than everyone else. They get treated with royalty and make the most money while everyone stands by. Terrible company to work for. The director and the people are nice but that’s it.

Ageism. Set foot in the Brooklyn Center office and you will notice most everyone is under 30 years old. If they are they have been there since fresh out of college. They don’t know what a “normal” full time job looks like and when they are being manipulated to be a slave. They want you to work from the couch after a 10 hour day in office. They want you to work on weekends. They want you to be on call 24/7 often emailing late at night constant reminders and micromanaging. There’s a bajillion little updates and documents to “track” the job becomes 50% actually making progress and another 50% tracking that progress in a ton of different ways and if you forget to track your in trouble and not performing. Let the starts speak for themselves and let the rest fall away -oh yeah and starts are a lot easier to make when the CSAs actually answer their phones and make sure your contract employees are getting paid right and actually pretend they care. A few missed paychecks or wrong paychecks and not sending pay stubs to contractors when you requested it a million times really makes you lose your face as a recruiter fast. Remember your best source of employees is your contractors friends and bribing them with lunches is not going to make them feel any better or make them excited with their friends when their pay check has been screwed up for weeks! Nightmare.