So many opportunities plus outstanding benefits and awesome experiences - Designer Randstad Employee Review

5.0
May 27, 2016
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Pros

At Randstad not only are there numerous opportunities to develop your career with an incredible learning and development team, whilst carving out your career path you can bask in the luxury of the amazing benefits Randstad has to offer, not just the standard ones like a pension scheme, money off vouchers, sick pay and holiday but decent, real, unique benefits, from monetary rewards for a job well done though to once in a lifetime experiences like changing the wheel of a F1 car (yes, I actually did that) or taking part in a global party to celebrate the Randstad milestones (yep, I did that too) or entertaining clients on our Clipper ship (humm, yep, that too!)

Cons

One of the only cons to working at Randstad is where the head office is situated, the building is dull and quite frankly a bit tired looking, not what you'd expect from one of the world's largest recruitment agencies. But you know what, that's ok, because in July 2016 we'll be moving to brand spanking new offices where it will be all singing all dancing. There's even a water feature!

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Loved my team. My Manager was incredibly supportive, understand, and always rooting for myself as well as my teammate's success. Remote work was highly flexible and accommodating.

Cons

Pay was a little low and you don't get paid for holidays in your probationary period but there's growth opportunities after 6 months of employment.

1.0
Apr 27, 2026
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Pros

Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Cons

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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