CareerBuilder Reviews

Former Employee – worked at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – -Quarter Bonuses
-Company Performance Rewarded Trips
-Frequent Travel
-Excellent people
-Room for advancement and growth
-Health benefits are low costing
-work from home program

Cons – -Management can be over demanding and unrealistic with day to day duties including roles.
-Below average
-At sometimes ,management can overlook hardworking engineers and mis-score quarterly reviews

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to Engineers feedback post Reorg to see if it was the best move. Recognize key performers, reward them, compensate them and keep them happy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time

Pros – Laid Back working environment, not super busy

Cons – Started as a contractor...was for 9 months before promoted to full-time...suffered pay decrease

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Some of the smartest, most passionate, energized people you will ever work with. The company values are for real. If you aren't prepared to live by them then you should probably find another place to work because you won't be happy here. Management is transparent, politics are minimal, it is all about performance.

Cons – It is a very competitive atmosphere. If you are in sales and you are not cut out for that field you will figure it out more quickly here than in other sales organizations.

Advice to Senior Management – Stay frosty. LinkedIn is nipping at our heels and we need to continue to evolve!

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

Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – A great learning enviroment, management that actually care and share in your career growth strategies, outstanding benefits and perks.

Cons – No cons. You get what you put into it.

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

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

Pros – Amazing place to work if you are interested in what you are doing. Great, takented leadershsip who appreciate hard work and effort.

Cons – Very difficult quotas and i am not sure if they are attainable past the 12-24 month mark. Very focused on dials and talk time rather than the results of the dials you do make. Accounts are very badly managed and clients have a bad taste in their mouths about how many reps they go through during a 12 month period.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep your tenured reps longer and listen to their gripes

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – I love the great bunch of people that I work with.

Cons – The culture has shifted and people aren't as happy as they once were. Part of it would most certainly be the change in compensation, the other being the increased demands/product quotas.

Advice to Senior Management – Take notice to the culture shift and go back to the previous compensation packages.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – This position gives you access to other opportunities within the company and can be a good platform to build from.

There is also a lot of training available so you can grow your professional skills and abilities as much as you'd like.

The healthcare benefits are great. They also offer a wellness benefit that CB will reimburse the employee $400 annually to spend on something fitness related.

There are team outings and happy hours and employee parties to help build teamwork and morale as well. However, this is more of a small distraction from your day-to-day duties more than anything.

Cons – The amount of responsibility and workload you are expected to have for the money is not worth it. You are consistently given new and different metrics that you are measured by. A decent portion of your bonus is tied to the sales survey given to the sales reps you support. If a sales rep decides to give you a bad score for whatever reason your small bonus will suffer substantially.

There is also a lot of favoritism present as well so be prepared for that. If you want to play the game and jump through hoops then this might be a good opportunity for you. However, the amount of extra responsibilities they want you to take on to get a promotion is generally not worth it. Even when promoted to Senior CSS you will still be making around 40k with bonuses. In order to make a decent livable wage you will need to be promoted several times within this department. I would suggest using your experience at CB to find better money for similar work elsewhere within the first year or two.

If you are looking to get into sales this could be a good fit for you if you are willing to relocate. However, if you want to stay in the Atlanta area there is a lot of red tape before being able to get promoted into sales.

Advice to Senior Management – I would recommend management hire directly out of college to take advantage of their eagerness and lack of a need for much income to get by. This would be a good opportunity for a recent college grad for their first year or two out of school. I would also recommend management have a more realistic approach to managing their team. This is a great place to learn how to function in a corporate environment but when all is said and done the role is more administrative and task oriented than about the bigger picture.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great compensation, benefits, and perks. Company truly values each of their employees and offers the training opportunities to advance in your career.

Cons – Can't really think of anything that would stand out that you wouldn't experience at any other company.

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

Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Company really invests in its employees - great training program, great benefits, etc.
You absolutely have the ability to write your own ticket to success
Ethical
Great product - one you really believe in because you see proof with your clients every day

Cons – Same as every company - there can be some politics

Advice to Senior Management – Invest a little more in your front-line managers in either salary or recognition - it's a tough position.

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

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

Pros – Nowadays it seems all employers want experience, but few are willing to actually give you any. It's like they expect you to graduate from college and automatically have 5 years of experience. Careerbuilder was the opposite. They seemed to prefer people straight out of college. Put a few hundred 22 year old's in an office and it makes for a pretty fun place to work!...at least for a while.

On top of that, benefits were great and there were plenty of pretty girls to oogle over!

Cons – There's lots of turnover for the sales staff. It didn't matter if you were normally an all-star salesperson. If you were down on your luck and failed to hit your quota 2 months in a row, they let you go. It was often times ice cold. Someone once told me that approximately 50% of entry-level sales people they hire will be gone within 6 months and only 10% will make it one year. Based on what I saw, I'd say that was probably fairly accurate. When the recession hit in '09, things seemed to ease up a bit in terms of cutting people more slack, but I have no idea how it is now.

Favoritism existed on my team. It eventually got to the point where I was spinning my wheels at CB. Despite having seniority on my team and quality job performance, I wasn't buddy-buddy with my manager the way others were. Therefore I was going nowhere. The longer I worked there, the more things seemed to deteriorate. I clearly had overstayed my welcome.

Overall, great place to work when you're just starting out. But this place is mostly a stepping stone to bigger and better things. I've moved on from CB, but some days I miss it. I've even found myself curiously checking their Careers page to see if they have anything matching my current skill set.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend