Avoid at all costs - Anonymous employee Oscar Recruit Employee Review

1.0
14 Feb 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There’s still a few nice people around. It’s Ok if you’re young and have 0 commitments outside of work and can commit ALL of your time to it and don’t mind being micromanaged all day, by the MD. It’s Ok if you’re desperate for a job, but learn what you can and then get out.

Cons

All the most experienced recruiters have left, leaving almost no mentors. Extremely regimented_everyone has the same fixed start, finish, break and lunch times. It’s like being at school, in all the worst ways. No opportunity to work from home and very little flexibility. Their idea of culture, is ordering pizza. Upper management is basically a “boys club” Former CEO was sacked for being inappropriate towards young girls. This apparently happened numerous times over the years and was reported but somehow, nobody had any idea 🤡 To make this worse, they pretty much only hire people who are in their early 20s, particularly young girls (Very creepy) and the CEO / MD has to “approve” them all first 🤮 A select few manage to make a lot of money but generally that isn’t the case for most recruiters and you won’t be in the management good books unless you’re exceeding your target every month. The minute your figures drop, you’re gone. Complete lack of trust in staff to do their job, hence why they no longer allow WFH, the pretty much treat staff like children. Any “perks” they used to offer are now gone or impossible to use.

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Useful training program and intro into the recruitment industry and supportive teammates

Cons

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