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Motion Recruitment

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Motion Recruitment reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(492 total reviews)

Chris Layden

100% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Motion Recruitment has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 492 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Motion Recruitment employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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492 reviews
1.0
Feb 8, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

LOL - Motion must have finally caught wind of all their bad reviews on Glassdoor and had a meeting telling current employees to go write good reviews because there is not a single pro of working for this company.

Cons

Don't even know where to start - their managers have no idea how to manage teams (no training), they prey on young adults coming out of school and eager to start their careers just to trap them in a pyramid scheme and mentally drain them. Offices are ran as a joke - bullying behavior and pathetic incentives (don't let their half days on Fridays fool you - you're still expected to work until 3pm but your managers aren't!) make the office seem like a frat house. You're either working towards a unattainable incentive (free lunches - far and in between) or you're working towards a incentive you know you can hit for a pathetic reward (you can leave 15 minutes early at the end of the day!). No paid parking, one happy hour a month (as if three free drinks a month would make up for the mental torture that is this job), took away matching 401k. They pay TAs more money than full desk to do 1/3 of your job and get to work fully remote. They are only worried about the volume of candidates and don't care about quality. This leads to placing people who stay with clients for less than a year and makes clients not want to work with you. Expect this job to be listening to voicemails all day and your managers micromanaging you (x10) telling you you don't know how to do the job. They don't explain well enough (especially to someone who may not have ever had a corporate job) that you will not make ANY movement in this company without building your own book of business. You will be recruiting for your team and managers and they will already have a book of business to place your recruited candidates at - and you will not be paid for this placement. ie you're doing all the heavy lifting and they are reaping the reward. The have "territories" for each office but nobody respects them and you will constantly be fighting with other offices for jobs to work. The revolving door of employees here is insane, I have never worked for a company where I have seen more turnover in employees. Probably 30% of the company gets poached by other agencies that offer an actual living wage. A common trend is firing employees once they reach a certain salary point and replacing them with a trainee they can pay 10k less (the cycle happens probably every 6 months). They do not care about you here - you are replaceable and unless you are a yes man/woman you will be reminded daily and eventually replaced. Everyone who leaves Motion knows how much of a joke it is.

5.0
Feb 7, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing growth opportunities. This company really started my career and built me into the person I am today. Amazing Managers that push for success and take you under their wing.

Cons

- Levels of experience you have a cap on commission and brought down my willing to push for more deals.

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