Piper Companies Reviews

3.9

64% would recommend to a friend

(129 total reviews)

David Matthews

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56% positive business outlook

Piper Companies has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 129 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Piper Companies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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129 reviews
2.0
11 July 2014

Make sure you are a fit

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Pros

Great professionals who are pretty good at what they do. VPs were leadership for a huge firm, so they know how to get the job done. You will learn a lot about running a business, how to develop professionally, and what kind of role you are meant to do.

Cons

Unrealistic expectations, micro-management, and high stress. Competent people have been fired, or faced the prospect of being let go at one point or another.

2.0
10 Jan 2017

IT Associate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- GREAT, intensive training. You are not just thrown into the wolves - Fun outings (Happy hours, promotion celebrations) - Free lunch and coffees, although they are only when you have them with a client - Uncapped commission - Modern, spacious new office - Great location, easy parking

Cons

- Very low pay and commission structure. Other staffing agencies in the area pay a higher base + commission %. - This is not a 9-5 job.. in order to "succeed" in their eyes, you should be in by 7:30am and leave no earlier than 7pm. They WILL complain at you for leaving before 6pm. - Poor business planning: they decided to hire a ton of new people (recruiters, mainly) in a short span of time, yet were not able to provide the business for them to recruit on. - False advertising in job security: they made everyone think that they were doing so well, that they were going to open several new offices in the coming year YET laid off 15+ employees in the following 2 months after that. Several of them were ones that were recently promoted or even hired. This goes back to poor business planning. - Staffing is a production environment but you shouldn't have to yell/nag at your employees twice a day for not reaching sufficient numbers that they liked. A lot of these numbers depend whether someone answers their phone that day or not.. At least have some compassion in that fact. - A lot of gossip and politics.. talking bad about someone behind their back yet praising their hard work to their face. - They make you sign a non-compete so that you cannot work for any company that they have even briefly tried to work with. They will try to sue you. - Does not keep their "Piper Promise." People DO NOT Matter to them. You are just a number to produce, and if you do not meet their standards, you will be let go without warning.

2.0
8 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-Worked with some great people -Pretty good work/life balance -Felt supported during health decline by the team lead. -VP of recruiting is incredible and awe-inspiring—learned a lot from him

Cons

-Management used fear and intimidation to “motivate” staff. -Productivity and hard work are not rewarded or essential if you’re not liked. -Individuals who were known to make racial/discriminatory remarks were rewarded with promotions even when those remarks were brought to management and HR. The person was said to fit “the culture.” -Little to no diversity within the Baltimore office and others. -An account manager had little to no communication/interpersonal skills, making it tiresome to get any work done. Consistent passive-aggressive if not constant aggressive behavior. -Aggressive and challenging environment to work in due to toxic “culture” within the Baltimore/Columbia office. -Constant escalations for trivial matters slowed necessary workday progress. -Constant inconsistencies became counterproductive and inefficient. -Micromanaged daily and felt I had no autonomy to think or act on my own accord, even though I had much success during my time there.

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