Insight Global reviews

Insight Global will recruit you when you are in your last few months of your senior year of college. The only people they hire are college grads. If you have any professional experience, you will not get the job. This is because anyone who has ever had another job would never be okay doing what Insight Global forces you to do. The core hours are 8 AM - 5 PM, but everyone works 7 AM - 7 PM because of the work load and way you are viewed if you don't put in those hours. You're paid a base of 36K in the DC office. Every single thing you do is on record for the entire office to see, with your commission on record to the whole company. Insight Global treats contractors poorly and if you don't hang out with everyone from the office on the weekends, you get pushed out because you don't have the "right personality." It's an office full of attractive 22 year olds stalking managers and candidates to hit their numbers. They will use incentive trips and just about any other tactic to suck you in. Every sales job has incentive trips, Insight Global is no different. I lasted about 8 months at Insight Global. I was promoted from recruiter to sales in 5 months. Things actually got worse once I got into sales. You are made to go on 25 meetings a week, make 100+ cold calls per day, and take a client out on a happy hour at least once a week. I understand having drinks with clients, when it's appropriate and the relationship has been built. However, IT Managers in their forties do not always want to spend a night away from their family to have drinks with a college grad. There was a time (which led to my departure) that I was forced to call a manager who made me uncomfortable, in front of my entire office. Once I left, my "friends" from the office were no longer my friends. I joined another company, stayed in sales, and realized that Insight Global is like nothing else. It teaches you work ethic, sure. It teaches you that part of sales is a numbers game (more meetings = more business). I get all that, but there are ways to be successful without going on pointless meetings, reporting every number, and working 60 hour work weeks. Look for a sales position where the turnover rate is not enormous, where people from different professional backgrounds are along side of you, and where you have the opportunity to enjoy the freedom that sales allows.

After a month of being there, I spent almost every day crying in the bathroom. Over 40 calls a day, if you don't hit every single number you are humiliated in group meetings, girls have to wear high heels and full makeup everyday. I was shamed for wearing less makeup than usual because I was sick. Basically a call center, phones ring off the hook all day long. No WFH flexibility, expect you to get to the office at 7 am and not leave until 7 pm some days, with a 30k salary. PTO is extremely strict and you get shamed if you try to take it before 6 months even though it is "technically available" from the day you start. 0 work life balance. It is also extremely unethical in some ways because they have you submit resumes just for the sake of hitting numbers. You get people's hopes up knowing they won't get the job because you are expected to hit your own numbers. Once you are able to get out of being a recruiter, you have to cold call all day long. literally all day long. Even then, if you don't set enough meetings, again you get publicly shamed and taken out of the promotion program. Lastly, there are often many low level jobs and many jobs in the development space where many foreign citizens are being called on to find candidates. in my experience, people could be extremely ignorant and racist on the phone with these people, especially since there was 0 diversity in our office. They say it's a great place to work with Red Bull flip cup, bi-yearly conferences, happy hours and opportunities to move up and win contests to travel to tropical places, The people who ACTUALLY reach those milestones are few and far between and are willing to handle mental and emotional abuse from their managers. If I could give working here negative stars, I would.