Most horrendous onboarding experience ever - Administrative Guidehouse Employee Review

1.0
19 Dec 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I can sincerely say I didn't experience one. I guess the recruiting lady was nice.

Cons

The onboarding process is the worst I've experienced in 18 years as a professional. They basically give you a checklist of about 50 things and go 'figure it out'. There is no guidance from any actual humans on what you need to do to get started or how to do it. Managers don't communicate with you during the process. It is all remote. Even for the I9, you know how you usually go in show your id and social security card and then the company does the rest? This company wants you to find your own Authorized representative to verify your documents. Wtf is that? So much red tape, I can't.

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Pros

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