The company has a lot of perks and a lot of toxic drawbacks - Recensione dipendente - Recruitment Consultant presso Engtal

-benefits were extremely expensive and lacking -work life balance was poor. I was ALWAYS working and that behavior is encouraged and rewarded -Execution is lacking. For example, we had consistent diversity meetings yet never saw a huge impact in diverse hires, frustrations were communicated to management and in my opinion ignored, they preach mental health but don't care when employees share they are struggling, and they tried to hop on bandwagon social things, but I never saw us adding value to those communities (meeting for Pride month, but no contribution to Pride community). -internal managers are not on the same page. I'd have the CEO ask me to do something a certain way and then my direct manager ask me to do something differently. When I spoke to my manager about the differences I was told to stick to the managers plan of attack. This always put me in a very stressful spot. -Success and how it is measured. Success is measured on KPI's, sending CV's, sending emails and not on building lasting relationships. I never felt like I was successful or had true success in this position because they cared more about their KPI's and me hitting them then they did about me recruiting in a way that I had brought value to previous companies with (I mentioned my recruiting style in the interview and they seemed onboard, but once I started it felt like I was lied to). Unfortunately our different styles didn't mesh well and it slowly tore me down and really affected my mental health. The micromanaging prevented me from doing it in a way I knew I could be successful in and had been hired on with -Culture: For me the culture was a miss, but I am sure many people would consider their culture a plus. It is very drinking heavy, renting work boats, or going out together in the evening. I am more introverted, have no interest in getting drunk with my coworkers or being in bathing suits with them. To me this leads to HR issues, gossip, and problems. Personally it was a con for me, but I know many people like this -No real HR department for concerns -Very high school minded. There was always gossip, talk about who liked who, people angry with one another and bad mouthing each other. It created a very high school "Prom Queen vs Band Geek" environment and there are definitely people who are the managements "favorites". This often created a hostile work environment and I had coworkers tell me they felt the same way -Also had a 'drink the kool-aid' mentality. They wanted everyone to like the same things, speak the same way (they had a script and an order you had to do on calls to candidates), and wanted everyone to constantly preach how great the company was on social media. We were often 'encouraged' to write glassdoor reviews and in virtual meetings they would say to do a good review so that we could hire more people and grow. They made it sound like lying on this site was an investment in our companies long term growth and would help us attract more talent. They also often 'encouraged' us to vote for them in whatever 'best company ever' competition they were in. They would send constant emails until it was completed and mention it in all our virtual meetings. To be clear, it was never required/forced, but the 'encouragement' seems like coercion and made me personally feel like my job was at risk if I didn't do it. -pay