TEKsystems reviews

Upper management has no vision and are only reactionary which means re-orgs every couple of months are the norm, a finance department that is extremely inept and constantly requires follow up to ensure correct pay and travel reimbursement is done correctly as well as client billing is correct (and to add they are smug and snobby so your having to correct them while dealing with attitude) and there HR system and the way they onboard, take care of you and do the exit (including last pay, PTO payoff and etc) is borderline scandalous ("the check must have gotten lost in the mail" was only one of many great moment for me). You will get zero career growth as they don't care about that as long as you stay billable and if your not part of the big political scene which is very hard to be insight with a customer 24/7 and playing the internal politics back at the office) don't expect to advance. In short Teksystems is where careers go to die in my opinion and if this helps you make a decision to go another direction and save yourself the misery and anguish this caused me and my family I will feel better about this review.

I have been a recruiter for about 3 months and this is the absolute worst company I have ever worked for! Just over the short amount of time that I have been here I have seen a parade of people get bullied and pushed out because they didn’t fit in with the unprofessional, “cult-like” culture. They like to hire right out of college so they can mold them into the compliant employees they want and pay them little to nothing. They bait people in by telling them what an awesome and supportive work environment it is and how much money they can make when in reality it’s a terrible work environment and they only pay $12.25/hr until you hit $3k in spread (around 9 months) then make you hit $8k in spread before giving you any commission. Forget about having a life outside of work, they expect you to work 24/7, most people come in around 7:30am and leave around 7:00pm and if you come in at the standard time (8:00am- 5:00pm) you better believe you’re getting the stink eye. The turnover is outrageously high (30% attrition rate) with most people leaving around the 6 month mark and I could count on one hand how many people that have been there for over 3 years. There is also a hierarchy with the Account Managers and Recruiters with Account Managers refusing to work with the “new recruiters” and only submitting candidates from recruiters that they like. You can only be promoted into the Account Manager role after you hit a certain amount of spread and contest. This company has fooled people into believing an Account Manager position is actually a promotion when in every other recruiting firm it’s just another career path that you can take, plus it’s more responsibility for the same amount of pay. They set it up that way so when someone questions them about the high turnover they can say “well look at all the people we have promoted”. The people that are unethical and unprofessional are the ones that get promoted here and whenever someone report the behavior they just say “sorry there is no way to prove that”.