Wakefield Research Reviews

To my last point, they hire young so they can pay you as little as possible and squeeze as many hours out of you as possible. There is no work/life balance, there is only work. You aren't given any flexibility in your schedule. You might be able to get an hour or two off, but a half day...don't bother. You don't even feel comfortable leaving on time (even if you finished all your work). If you don't have thick skin, you won't survive here. You're often made to feel like your job is unsafe and get yelled at for things that often aren't your responsibility. It's not a comforting feeling to have seen at least half your of your coworkers reduced to tears. Turnover is very high and there aren't a lot of opportunities to grow, especially if you're looking to be paid competitively.

Take a moment to read all of the 5 star reviews that have been posted about this company. Notice a trend? Yes, that's correct. No legitimate employee would actually write like that. Here are some word-for-word quotes from some of these "reviews". "The work is challenging, and sometimes I work a longer day than I’d like to, but I think that’s everyone at their jobs. My roommates work long days too sometimes and they work in other industries." "Some of the negative comments about Wakefield on this site are definitely from those employees who did not ever progress to more senior positions." "There are times where the company has a lot of projects in field, but because of the teamwork and strong communication it did not seem that bad. Plus the more work that goes on, the faster the day, the faster the day, the faster it is to weekend!" "I'm not sure why some of these other reviews are allowed to be posted because some are just silly and completely untrue, and others that paint this brutally negative picture are not a reflection of what it's like to work there at all...at least not while I was there and that was very recently." "Keep bringing in the fun, hardworking people and get rid of poisonous staff members who bring everyone else down (and are making your Glassdoor page look bad). " "(To be honest, that review was probably written by one of those young, negative employees - maybe even during work hours...)" I'll let you be the judge of how authentic these sound.