When you start working at Recruiting.com, it seems very exciting. It has a beautiful and modern office and is sold to be an up-and-coming, startup-esque, genuinely cool place to work with tons of opportunity.
You soon begin to notice how toxic the environment is and how miserable nearly every person who works there is. Here are a few of the reasons:
The turnover rate is through the roof. They boast people who have been there 10+ years, when in reality only two handfuls of employees have worked there that long and the vast majority of the other 40+ members of the staff have worked there 6 months or less. People are fired (at the random discretion of the CEO) or voluntarily leave quite frequently.
There is little option to be social and build relationships with coworkers and peers. The CEO expects you to want to be there 24/7. He sits in his glass office watching the comings-and-goings of employees all day long and has been known to make comments about people not being dedicated enough because they leave when the work day is over at 5pm. Work related and sponsored events to build relationships with coworkers hardly ever happen, and never during a work day because of this mentality.
Autonomy is something they sell heavily and do not follow through on. Every detail of everything is micromanaged. They also claim to be transparent, yet most people who work there have zero idea of the company’s next goals other then very generalized buzzword corporate-speak that doesn’t have anything to do with actual goals or how the company is performing in numbers, everything is a big secret.
Management consists of the people who have worked there for 10+ years and are very close to the CEO. These managers are the writers of nearly every positive review you will read about this company, so read with caution. There is no safe space here to report any discomfort, disagreement or dissent without fear of being fired. It’s an HR company without a safety net, and where the only person you can report things to is the CEO himself.
The CEO is by far the most pressing issue at this company. He micromanages every detail of the company, rules by intimidation and consistently acts like an immature bully. He fires people at will and is verbally abusive and aggressive with employees out of what can best be described as an incessant need to feel important. He finds favorites, usually younger attractive female employees, and gives them preference. The company would be in a much better position to be run by someone who is actually open to new ideas and pushback, rather than new ideas and pushback that align exactly with the way he already thinks. He has an “open door policy” yet hardly ever walks outside of his office to speak with his employees, give them feedback or praise, or say two words to them. Yet employees are blamed for not taking advantage of the open door policy and speaking with him.
I do not recommend working for this company. It could be great if changes were made with management, but they never will be as long as the CEO stays in his position. A great deal of truth stretching takes place during the interview process. I highly recommend looking at Glassdoor reviews for Jobing.com as well, which is the same company in the same office.
At Recruiting.com, employees are always the ones blamed for not “taking advantage of the enormous opportunity” the company offers or not “stepping up to the plate.” But looking at the HUGE turnover rate and how many very smart, very talented people leave this company, it’s clear it’s the management who deserves the blame.