- Communication isn't great, follow-ups to managers are needed repeatedly. This goes beyond personal accountability for your own work and veers more into the territory of following up on things to make sure that they get done.
- Compensation is not great. The base salary for a new recruiter is a joke compared with Medix's competitors. This is excused by bonuses that are, in reality, difficult to attain and often depends on how business is. Medix takes advantage of kids fresh from college who don't know any better.
- Non-existent work/life balance. Expect to work 45+ hours a week, for some recruiters, coming in on Saturdays or taking your laptop home on weekends is normal. There is a "work hard, play hard" mentality but for that to be the case, someone would actually having to be making a lot of money. Senior leadership seems to make their own schedule, they come in late and leave earlier than anyone else.
- The new work from home policy is not uniform across the company. For recruiters to qualify for remote days, they have to be meeting metrics and get their manager's approval. These metrics are difficult to attain and if you have a manager who prefers to have everyone in the office you're out of luck.
- Expect to wear a suit daily if you're a guy. Rules are more flexible if you're a woman, especially if you work in corporate. Completely unnecessary to have everyone dressed so formally. They now allow facial-hair for guys and are very proud of this even though it's the norm for other staffing firms in this day and age.
- Since they hire kids straight out of college, there isn't any real chance to learn from experienced recruiters. Not sure that there is a recruiter over the age of 25.
- Serious, serious issue with diversity. Senior leadership is almost completely white, straight, and male. There is a pervasive boy's club culture throughout Medix. They hire men and women at fairly equal rates but the men are put on the fast track to leadership positions in a way that the women are not. Women have to be more aggressive and proactive if they want to move up and I've still seen extremely capable female recruiters get passed over in favor of male recruiters who are less organized but who still get the opportunity to meet with clients or take leadership positions. To their credit, they are starting a diversity initiative but it seems to suffer from buy-in from senior leadership who don't understand that they have serious problem and that the problem is not a lack of women who want (or know how) to lead/succeed. The women who are hired here are almost exclusively young, white, and pretty.
- The non-profit activity is a nice thought but there is such a high expectation of what everyone is expected to contribute (time and money) that it's exhausting. Every month there is a new cause that people are "encouraged" to donate to or volunteer for. Please just focus on one or two fundraisers a year.
