Aerotek Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Aerotek as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – They stay in contact and actively work to find new positions once your current contract ends. They work hard to make sure your contract experience is enjoyable.

Cons – In this economy it is tough to find good paying contract positions when you possess rare skills and education.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to work with employers to ensure that they hold up their end of the bargain when posting jobs. I've experienced that some employers remove job postings before they are filled.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Aerotek full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great people to work with. Great starting opportunity for recent graduates. A lot of quality training and development.

Great work-life balance. A lot of team builiding activities as well as company-wide functions.

Cons – Compensation was not all that great. Work can start to get repetitive after a while.

Advice to Senior Management – Adapt to different employees work styles. Everybody works differently.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Aerotek full-time for more than a year

Pros – Team support and training for professional development. Goal oriented company culture and team building. Opportunity to gain professional and life skills.

Cons – The commission structure for recruiters makes it difficult to make money because it favors the account managers. Also recruiters are assigned an account managers and industry and never change so they are forced to work on the same sales persons business's over and over regardless of how profitable the positions are or how easy they are to fill.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat the recruiters the most respect because they are the root of your business

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Aerotek full-time for more than a year

Pros – This company offers a great culture and opportunity for an entry level career.

Cons – Low Compensation and High Deductible Health Insurance

Advice to Senior Management – Offer better benefit options for healthy employees. Also, Offer higher base pay to experienced associates.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Aerotek full-time for less than a year

Pros – Aerotek is the largest short term contract provider in the United States. Their job search website allows you to look at all positions which are currently avaiable. They are well organized and responsive in answering all your questions.

Cons – The health benefits offerings are only available to you as you are employed with Aerotek. If you have finished your contract and you are unable to seamlessly transfer into a new contract you need to signup for Cobra which is an additional cost.

Advice to Senior Management – In todays economic climate it has become necessary to become flexible in locating employment and shopping for the necessary health benefits. It would be of great benefit to your employees if there was a longer range plan of benefits based on the accumulated hours you have worked for Aerotek.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Aerotek full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great learning experiences, real world business experience, good salary right out of college.

Cons – Manager's attitude, little to no commission, respect for junior employees. I spent 4 years in the Military, one being in a war zone and was treated as a child upon hire. Being several years older than most Managers and having more life experience that can be difficult to being "talked down" to.
You are expected to make 100+ phone calls a day. The job is to put people to work, so if you put 5 people to work a week, they as you why you didn't make 500 calls. If you make 500 calls, they ask why you didn't put anyone to work. Can be frustrating and the threshold for commission is quite long. Turnover rate is 4-6 months per person on average.
Also, being a younger office, there is always mental and sexual drama between co-workers.
The hours are awful. Work day is 7:30-6pm, that's roughly 53 hours. My work day was 7-7, as you are frowned upon if you arrive before 7:15 or leave before 6:30. Weekends also apply in busy seasons. A lot of "unwritten rules".

Advice to Senior Management – Improve training exercises. Hire older professionals that have a proven track record, instead of college kids that quit in their first 6 months. A lot of companies don't want to deal with a "sales executive" that is 23 years old.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Aerotek full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great beginer job, opportunity to learn a lot about business. There is the opportunity to make a decent living if you are working with a good team.

Cons – As Aerotek continues to grow leadership is implementing more and more ways to micromanage. Aerotek hires mostly out of college so everyone is young and loves to do happy hours and social events, if you have a family this may be hard as you must put in countless hours into the job to be successfull

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Aerotek as a contractor for more than 3 years

Pros – Aerotek kept me busy with little down time.

Cons – One position was only suppose to go for approx. 6 months and turned into a 2 1/2 year position based on my performance. Was unable to get a pay raise during this time, no paid vacation or sick leave. I did however, after 2 years get paid holidays.

Advice to Senior Management – Make employees feel valued and important.

Current Employee – been working at Aerotek full-time for less than a year

Pros – profit sharing, and performance bonus structure, majority of associates are early 20's, great place to start a career

Cons – difficult to advance, and the company promises career advancement, but don't get your hopes up

Advice to Senior Management – talk the talk and walk the walk

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Aerotek full-time for more than a year

Pros – They had good jobs and knew a lot of companies in the city. It allowed me to interview for a lot of different place.

Cons – IT can be hard to get responses from them sometimes. Account managers are working with so many different people, they occasionally get confused.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company