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Motion Recruitment

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Motion Recruitment reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(490 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 490 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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490 reviews
1.0
Feb 8, 2024
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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.

1.0
Jan 1, 2024

Save your mental health

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Pros

A lot of money to be made but if it’s not here, you can definitely make a lot of money else where.

Cons

Management does not care about you. You are expected to be in office before 8:30am and if you aren’t, good luck. Operating hours are from 9-5 but just know the expectations are to be in your seat and working way before 8:30. I’ve been in corporate for 4 years and decided recruiting would be a great new journey to explore (boy was I WRONG). If you don’t have support from your manager (you won’t find them here in DC)— you’re gonna sink & it’s gonna be fast. Even being new here, I could already smell the toxic “work life” balance and that your work comes first before anything else. I experienced my manager snapping her fingers in my face (while trying to wrap up my thoughts in the middle of work), as our director would be getting ready to start speaking to the office as a group. I was told if I were late again (I would be anywhere from 2-15 minutes late at times just because of the metro or train delays) that I would have to “part ways with motion” aka quit. They don’t care about your personal life or what you have going on if it’s not making them money. It’s easy to manipulate young out of college “work professionals” into thinking this is what the real working world is like” — but it’s not!!$ and that’s exactly why I wasn’t going to bow down to their expectations, their toxic ways & disturbing behavior. Stay away from here if you can! It’s awful.

1.0
Jun 23, 2025

Senior Leadership Is Clueless

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Pros

Middle Management (these managers came from a different company that Motion bought out.)

Cons

Leadership's approach to expanding business is nonsensical. Blames AE team for not expanding the accounts they are given that have historically underperformed due to terrible agreements in place.

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