Madison, WI Office is HORRIBLE - Recensione dipendente - Technical Recruiter presso TEKsystems

I cannot speak for TEKsystems as an organization, but I can speak to the Madison, WI office. BEWARE! Leadership is truly awful. Instead of promoting people into management positions based on leadership capabilities and the aptitude to mentor and coach others, they promote purely based on producing a number. As a recruiter you will be treated as a pee-on. If you are not interested in becoming an account manager there is no other promotion option locally. Regarding hiring they only care about what you look like and not what is in your brain. They would hire a monkey if it looked great and could pick up the phone. They are also very petty and a judgmental group as a whole. It reminded me of sorority recruitment. This particular office has not seen any growth in over 20 years. There are a few people in the office that make money and the rest just continue to quit after a year or so. Attrition rate is horrible. Unlike the Account Manager position where strict territories are drawn, all recruiters compete against each other over the same pool of candidates. Since this is a commission based role it is not in the recruiters best interest to help their peers. They will give you some weird explanation on how directly competing against each other is a good thing...a lot of "drink the Kool-Aid" stuff. At times it seemed like people were "brain washed." Worst of all, despite internal rules and policies against this, a lot of the employees are sleeping with each other which can make things really weird. Especially when certain people get promoted after sleeping with a certain manager.... Overall, if you are a "cut your throat to get ahead" type or are a very money-centered individual then you might have a chance enjoying your time there and the people you work with. Just remember....mo money mo problems!