Great culture/Mediocre Management - Anonymous employee TEKsystems Employee Review

3.0
13 July 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Young, Fun, collaborative, and collegiate atmosphere- I absolutely loved the people I worked with and the culture is truly one of a kind. Good entry level experience- Though it's a large company, the regional and local stucture of the gives you the feeling of a smaller shop where you have the opportunity to learn about IT and staffing from the ground up.

Cons

Salaries for corporate employees are in the lower range. In my department, starting salary in 2009 for entry level -mid level positions was 35 K. With such a low starting point, annual increases (which are performance based) of 3-5% make little impact at all. Lack of diversity- Senior leadership staff are majority, if not all, white men. Corporate environment sometimes felt like a fraternity rather than a large corporation. No clear career path for corporate employees and significant favortism. On the flip side, sales staff probably have the most defined career path. Benefits were awful when I was there. The high deductible plan was absolutely the worst I've encountered, though it may have changed due to overwhelming negative response from employees. Work life balance was rough. It's tough to justify an already low salary when you regularly put in overtime.

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5.0
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Pros

Good folks.. Solid company with good recruiters.

Cons

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3.0
23 June 2026
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Pros

- Decent pay to start. - Account manager is responsive, engaging, and a serious advocate for you and your contract. - Gain access to Udemy Business to build more skills.

Cons

- The benefits suck. - High recruiter turnover with highly variable experience trying to work with them-- some are good, most are not. - Once you are placed, you will be promised regular meetings and then never hear from the recruiter again. - Trying to find a new contract if you are unhappy with your current placement is nearly impossible and I don't believe they are incentivized to help you move at all. - You have to manually request a raise and depending on how you negotiated your contract, you may or may not have the ability to receive one. - There is a cap to how much they will pay you for the contract so even if you work that position 4 years, once you hit that cap you are stuck. I originally submitted my resume with TekSystems when I had finished my degree and never heard back. Many years later, I was approached on LinkedIn by a TekSystems recruiter for a position and he had no idea I was in the system previously. Working with him was good, and I did get the position. Then I never heard from him again and I've had 4 or 5 different recruiters whose names I could not tell you if I tried since then. There's supposed to be monthly calls, they never happen.

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