Recruiter - Recruiter Major Players Employee Review

1.0
9 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None worth noting from my experience.

Cons

I worked offshore for this company and had an extremely negative experience. The environment felt exploitative, particularly toward offshore staff and young people trying to break into the industry. Call targets were completely unrealistic (often up to 200 calls per day), with constant pressure and little regard for quality, wellbeing, or sustainability. There were repeated promises around commission and progression that, in my experience, never materialised. Despite being encouraged to push harder and harder, the rewards simply weren’t there. Offshore teams were treated noticeably worse than onshore staff, with minimal support, poor communication, and a culture that felt dismissive and disrespectful. Management expectations were aggressive, and feedback was rarely constructive it was mostly about hitting numbers at any cost. Overall, I felt misled, undervalued, and poorly treated during my time here. I would strongly caution anyone, especially offshore candidates or those early in their career, to think very carefully before accepting a role.

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5.0
26 Jan 2026
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Pros

Good salary for recruitment industry

Cons

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2.0
30 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Has a good external reputation and a decent benefits package and comms structure

Cons

Despite its outward image, Major Players is a really fragmented place to work. The contract and permanent teams hardly ever collaborate, the SLT keep their distance from the recruiters, and marketing efforts are mostly disconnected from the recruitment side. Since joining I’ve noticed that the senior team plays a minimal role in the company; they are mostly invisible, and some seem entirely irrelevant. Their strategies change very regularly, we don't know what new plans are going to be implemented from one week to the next. There's a huge imbalance in the numbers of actual recruiters vs leadership which is really noticeable straight away to anyone that joins. Until recently, there were 3 MDs and there’s a C-suite of 5 (!), and as a group they are really misaligned with each other. Staff turnover is alarmingly high. The 3 biggest billers left in succession this year (2 of them have gone to competitors), one of 3 MDs recently left, 2 recruiters resigned in the last month and I a know of at least 3 people who are waiting for bonuses before resigning (also planning to go to competitors). There’s also a fair amount of firing going on. Unless you are in The Clique! The environment is not friendly, very top heavy and a culture of micromanagement and formal warnings. It feels like there’s constantly an axe swinging. Major Players is really well known in the r2r community, for all the wrong reasons. Until it get’s back on it’s feet (can it ever recover?), I would avoid.

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