Simply Hired Reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(78 total reviews)

James Beriker

56% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Simply Hired has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 78 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Simply Hired employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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78 reviews
5.0
26 June 2015

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Anonymous employee
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Pros

Simply Hired is unique. With 10 years of expertise in the recruitment industry, we're not a true start-up. However with a small and agile team, we're definitely not a large corporation with bureaucratic hierarchy and team silos. Our team is focused on working underneath the umbrella of our company's core values: Passion, Accountability, One Team, Respect, Rigor, and Innovation. These values shape the way that we do business and work together cross-functionally every single day. The company values those who not only think creatively with the company's best interests at heart, but also advocate for those thoughts. This is not an environment for those who are comfortable sitting back and letting "the boss" make the decisions. The people who succeed and grow at Simply Hired are those that want to work hard, smart, and have a little bit of fun doing it. A lot of these reviews have spent time detailing the ‘perks’ of working at Simply Hired, namely free lunch, fun company-wide events, and lots of yummy snacks. However, our true differentiator is in the people that work here. This company is made up of some of the smartest and most passionate people you will ever meet. I’ve never worked somewhere where people care so very much. From engineers to customer service, our team’s rock stars show up every day determined to have their voices heard, and their ideas implemented. Apart from the people, another reason to love working at Simply Hired is the size of the organization. With only about 150 employees, our teams are small. People who use the phrase, “that’s not in my job description” beware, this is probably not the place for you. However, if you like to collaborate, enjoy working cross-functionally, want to jump into exciting projects, and want an opportunity to learn, then you should apply today! Finally, I recommend Simply Hired for people early on in their career. This is an excellent place to learn and develop your career. With an executive team built of equal men and women, management is always open to ideas, discussion, and most importantly mentorship. If you see a project that you’re interested in, ask to be a part of it, or ask to sit in. If you know that an exec has a background you’re interested in (i.e. you want to be a VP in a large company, or you want to explore finance), then ask to set up a meeting. They are always happy to help guide and support your career growth, or even to set you up with someone that they think can help. I know quite a few people in the organization who have begun personal mentorship relationships with various executives.

Cons

Frankly, it’s taken us a long time to get to this point. We’ve taken a few missteps and employee confidence was shaken. However, we’re moving in the right direction and internal confidence in the team and product continue to grow. For a while, the team was bogged down in negativity. However, as long as we all continue to come to work passionate and positive, Simply Hired will grow and thrive. To those of you reading these reviews, know that our team is determined to not let the past dictate who we are becoming. This growing organization is dedicated to ensuring that the culture, products, and team that we build are going to be a winning combination.

1.0
24 Aug 2014

Beware of the false, positive reviews here.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

People...non-management. The people that work at Simply Hired are largely awesome. It's the management level employees that leave so much to be desired.

Cons

Simply Hired doesn't even know how to do fake reviews correctly. Reviews where every con is actually turned into a positive? Come on, upper management. After the laundry list of (freakishly accurate) negative reviews, it's obvious where these sudden positive reviews came from.

1.0
4 Aug 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free drinks and snacks, free lunch, easy to take time off

Cons

I don't even know where to start... Upper management is completely blind to the dissatisfaction of their employees. Instead of addressing the issues head on, they dismiss the red flags and warning signs and pat themselves on the back for a job well done. Top talent is leaving by the droves and they don't see anything wrong with it. Complete lack of innovation within the company. In the past 7 months, the company has been running a glorified "academic brainstorming session" and the only thing that came out of it was hours of wasted time. While we're sitting on our laurels, our competitors are leaving us in the dust. We need to start doing things, and not just pump out a forest's worth of sticky notes. Culture? What culture? The CEO keeps pushing for the culture piece just so he can claim that he's got a world class "startup." Yet there's no employee appreciation, no company events, and it's pin drop silent when you walk into the office. It's like people are scared to talk above a whisper. Upper management keeps on making the same mistakes month after month. Resources, time, and company effort keep getting poured into the wrong initiatives which turn into a rapid fire hiring of employees, which always ends up bloating one department up disproportionately. And of course, months later, when it turns into an "Oops" people get canned. Awesome.

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