Awful Recruitment Agency - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Randstad

1,0
29 apr 2016
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The team I worked in and my direct line manager were absolutely fantastic people who were high preformers who worked really hard. You can tell Randstad as an organisation takes itself very seriously which leads to their almost alien corporate culture.

Svantaggi

The human resources manager and managing director of my region (people very high up the food chain) operated a speak when spoke to policy. There is a real sense of competitiveness without any team morale. There is an open favouritism of consultants, the balance of recognition is who is flavour of the month. They are not great at identify leaders, just because someone makes money does not mean they can train new associates. Highly uninspiring as an organisation and a horrible dry culture with robots for bosses.

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Risposta di Randstad
10y
Thanks for your comments, and I'm sorry to hear you didn't have a great experience with us. Please feel free to get in touch with me personally to discuss this further, as I'd love the chance to understand your situation in more detail. Our annual employee engagement survey results consistently outperform the UK benchmark, and on average 80% of our consultants would either "strongly" or "very strongly" recommend us. We also get some great feedback on the culture within our branches so it's a real shame that you seem to have experienced a local issue.

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5,0
27 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Loved my team. My Manager was incredibly supportive, understand, and always rooting for myself as well as my teammate's success. Remote work was highly flexible and accommodating.

Svantaggi

Pay was a little low and you don't get paid for holidays in your probationary period but there's growth opportunities after 6 months of employment.

1,0
27 apr 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Svantaggi

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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