Motion Recruitment reviews

Where do I even begin: - Really low salary base (I'm talking barely $45k/year salary and in order to start making commission, you need to place 10(!!!!!) candidates - Regional manager played favorites and called out "under performers" during team meetings. Also loved to make everyone drop everything midday just to get everybody on a call and give some rah rah speech about why so and so decided to quit that day and how lucky we are to work at a company like this. Not exaggerating, this happened 3 times a week on average. These calls easily took out 30 minutes to an hour of your day trying to be productive. - Zero autonomy. My team had 3 video calls a day - 1st video call was all morning so the whole team was able to cold call together (which was so difficult with everyone leaving their mics on so managers could help employees through pitches). These went on from 8:30am-12pm when we had lunch. EVERY DAY. 2nd video call would be at 1pm as soon as we got back from lunch...to talk about how our mornings went (even though we were all just on a call together for the last 3.5 hours) and talk about how we were going to spend our afternoons. 3rd call was to check in on how everyones afternoons went before signing off. Didn't meet your metrics for the day? You better have a plan for making up "lost time" or be prepared to look like an idiot in front of your entire team at the hands of your manager. - Toxic work mentality/environment. Mentality here is if you aren't making placements, you must not want to make money. High promise of being able to make crazy commission in a short amount of time when every team is different depending on the technical vertical you are working in (some are more competitive than others aka less available strong candidates or companies willing to parter with you to fill their roles). - High stress environment. Metrics were pretty ridiculous and management had zero issue making you work overtime, as long as they don't need to pay you for it. - Limited PTO and man oh man if you EVER think that taking time off is ever acceptable, think again! Unless you're a top performer, be prepared to feel so much guilt and shame for giving yourself a mental health day or going on vacation.

Micromanaging- you will be micro managed down to the MINUTE, and you will have to explain the reasoning behind everything you do. Not really hybrid- when I read the job post and went on interviews I was under the impression that I could choose which days to WFH and which days I’d be able to come into office. (With the understanding that while training I need to be in office) That’s company policy at least. People who were off training (some at senior status) still aren’t trusted to work remotely though, and are required to be in office. Also, as a newer employee who didn’t accumulate any PTO (which is where sick days were accrued from), when feeling unwell I was told I couldn’t work from home, and that I needed to take an unpaid day. Mind you I would’ve gone into the office unwell solely so I didn’t have to take an unpaid day. I knew that my manager wasn’t cool with anyone working from home though. When telling him I’d come in, and practically begging to be able to work some way some how (because this job was my livelihood) I was still told to stay home for everyone else’s comfort and safety, and not to do any work or clock in. When I went to HR about this I got no help and was met with “let me look into it.” I’ll also say the environment is negative. Aside from the micromanaging they look for minimal employee engagement with one another during work hours. Also the benefits are… yikes.