Kforce reviews

Not only was my entire time at Kforce San Francisco a con, but it gave me anxiety for months after. I still cannot go into a meeting with my boss (at a new job at an amazing company) without trembling with fear of getting in trouble or fired. I was not alone in this feeling either; I used to walk into the bathroom to find girls crying from stress on a daily basis. I cried every single Sunday and most days on my walk to work because I dreaded it so much. Even though the workday technically started at 8AM, people would get written up if they were not in the office before 8AM. We also could not leave at night until our boss left. He constantly implemented the dumbest rules, such as we had to bring our laptops home every night in case he needed us to work (but everyone just hid them in their desk drawers). He never even brought his home and left it out on his desk! He would increase peoples numbers and they would stay late in order to reach them, and then he would write them up for staying late and say their numbers were not enough. Everyone always felt like the two managers on my team (one was a male and one was a female) counted every single minute you were away from your desk, even if you were just going to the bathroom. Every time you left your desk you had to let them know where you were going. We had an internal chat system but got scolded for using it. Both the managers on my team made rules like no personal calls from your desk, no working out during lunch breaks, not talking about your personal life at your desk, yet they would do these very things at their desk right in front of your face (and they would write you up for doing it)! When we confronted them about this, they said it did not matter if they did this because they were managers. Clearly they do not understand how good managers lead by example. Our male manager would tell women on our team that they always had to wear heels and dress up a lot, but the other teams in the office were not forced to do this, ever. He would pull you into a meeting and write you up if he did not like the way you dressed (and think of how awkward that conversation is… a man telling a woman how to dress). This happened to many women on my team. The collective thought about the managers is they were unintelligent, greasy used car salesman who only cared about making money for themselves and not about you at all. I think the worst part about the managers was that they talked about us to our teammates behind our backs and thought we would never tell anyone. Well, we were all super good friends so we obviously told each other. We had one girl on the team who was a huge snitch and who was great friends with the managers (no one else liked her) and she would throw everyone under the bus for any and everything they did. We even confronted the managers and called HR about this, but it did no good. It really made everyone feel so bad about themselves, their work and their efforts. I am not aware of a single person that made it over a year at this place because it was such a horrific environment. They sell the company on the work-hard play-hard mentality and preach on team bonding activities. Well- they would never let anyone order more than one drink at happy hours, and if you wanted food- you could not get a drink. Our team events were always potluck- so you had to spend your own money. We hardly ever did anything as a team though, thank god. I met a girl the other day, who just started on my old team, and was told she was the first sales woman on the team, when in reality there were eight when I was there (she seriously would not believe me though). That is how they sell you the dream- they make you believe you are the first of your kind and that you will make tons of money- it is all a lie and that is why the turnover is ridiculously high. For a while, we had about one person quitting every single week. The friends I made there still enjoy getting together today and sharing all the bad gossip we hear (if that doesn’t say something, I don’t know what does) and I am pretty sure one of the managers got demoted and no longer manages people… but that took WAY too many people calling HR, WAY too many confident young professionals getting absolutely obliterated and WAY too much time. I don’t know what else I can say to convince you not to work at Kforce so I hope you listen to everything I just said! But I could go on for hours… even days…. it is sad how they take lovely confident young people and just destroy their entire self worth.

The pay structure is abysmal!! You are paid on a draw and all of your commissions go towards repaying that draw before you see any. Also, you are not paid said commissions until the companies or clients pay. 4 times out of 5 you have to jump in and do your own A/R or collections to get your clients to pay their bills while asking for new business at the same time. It can take months to have your companies pay and then often by then, you are having to repay your draw. It is very hard to get ahead and stay ahead. It is 100% cut throat to get new business- there are rules of engagement in place but no one follows them and they are not enforced. The employees who have been there the longest typically win any argument that comes up as to whose client is whose. There is very little camaraderie between offices even if you work closely on filling their roles. The office environment is terrible too. Lots of money was just put into modernizing the offices to make them a more open concept- lounge areas, flat screens, coffee bars, etc... While they are beautiful, it is nearly impossible to hear your self think. Each "cube" is an 8' desk with a 1' high partition surrounding it. You are literally staring at the person across from you and if you are both on the phone at the same time (which, face it, this is a phone business) you couldn't hear the person on the other line. Although they would frequently ask me who was shouting next to me. Really really unprofessional. We would stagger our calls so that we didn't have to talk at the same time and that is not the most effective way to do business. Benefits are awful. There is little to no room for growth.