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      3.8

      70% would recommend to a friend

      (53 total reviews)
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      D. Raja

      65% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

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      1.0
      Mar 2, 2020

      GOSSIP, POLITICS, FAVORITISM

      Sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      On the staffing side, especially in Pittsburgh you will have a disproportionately LOWER change of succeeding because the staffing arm of CEI is drastically pathetic in Pittsburgh. I worked there for a few years and there is favoritism on WHO (sales people) gets the higher performing accounts. Then, recruiters and sales people who do not get these accounts are left to just willy nilly with LITTLE training, call on Fortune 500 to get/find recruiting needs. Those 1's and 2's deals are NOT going to bring you more than (if you're lucky) $200 a month in commission and i'm being generous

      Cons

      * Management has favorites. The CEO ran for senate the ENTIRE place is a favoritism, fake laughter, fake political environment. Fox news is playing ALL the time in the break room and the CEO has NO care, nor do the upper management on how you feel working there. * WEEKEND EVENTS (required) - If you do not attend a happy hour AFTER work, a WEEKEND christmas party or any other event you are shunned. I literally had a wedding and when missing the christmas party i was glared at an entire Monday by my manager. Children run this company, petty boomers with no work life balance and take it out on you. Any explanation below will be a CYA excuse and something (just like how they are run) politically correct. * Miserable turnover - Self explanatory * New ideas not welcome - When fighting for what you believe in if you do not fit the mold, you are greeted with condescending responses, assuming you are too stupid to "understand" therefore your response is invalid * No work life balance - you MUST stay until 5pm on the DOT. They would literally rather people SIT there...doing 0 work until 5pm. I literally witnessed people sitting shopping online killing time from 4:30-5pm god forbid you want a flexible schedule do not work here. Hello....be honest with yourselves, making people miserable and forcing them to SIT in a desk until exactly 5pm will NOT get you productivity and will crush a sense of self worth being there....you are delusional if you think this old school tactic still works. > Just an FYI none of this review is meant to contain aggressive or defamation interpreted language, it's my opinion and solely based in years working here. Nothing shared in this review divulges/reveals confidential lists like including but not limited to source code, customer lists, manufacturing techniques, R&D activities, budgets, detailed financial results and technical know-how .. I have to include this unfortunately because their CFO is a real trip.

      2.0
      Jan 9, 2020

      A lot of turnover and not a lot of opportunity

      Technical recruiter
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Upper management was great with understanding you need breaks, and they don't expect you to be at your desk 24/7. Good team atmosphere, team members will go to lunch together every Friday. Dress attire is casual. They don't expect you to come in dressed to the nines since you are not doing face to face meetings with clients.

      Cons

      Some management were nice and easy to work with, but they do not provide a lot of opportunity. They only have one client to work with from a recruiting standpoint and the "best" roles to work on with the best sales relationship always went to the more tenured people. New recruiters are expected to come in and work VMS roles mostly and get deals that way. If you are lacking in getting the activity on sometimes impossible roles, you will be stuck working that role for 18+ days until you get subs to it. Newer people are set up to fail unless you have a close relationship with management. If not, you're scraping job boards for activity to log. Because there is only one client, they don't expect the same level of activity as a some of the work horse recruiting firms, but you are still expected to make things happen with a little to none to work with. They send out "call numbers" every day to monitor how often you're on the phone. Although management isn't breathing down your neck directly, they are doing it in more subtle ways to use against you as time goes on. They are cheap! Salaries are PITIFUL. No laptops, and rarely ever provide comped lunches or events for employees. They grasp on to recent college grads, or people looking to get out of a previous toxic work environment. Yes it is "commission based" but when the opportunity is lacking you are basically screwed. Turnover is so high because people realize that they can make more money literally anywhere else. The people who were there 4+ years love it - but that is because they get the most opportunity. If you like high volume staffing with loads of opportunity, this is not the place for you. You will be stuck on the same 3 rotating roles with the same client for months hoping to get a bite.

      5.0
      May 15, 2019

      Growth minded organization with great opportunities

      Vice president
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A company that has seen remarkable growth over the last 2 years and has plans for continued hyper-growth. Great opportunities locally, in offices across the country and in India Executive leadership willing to listen to new and contrarian ideas Salary and bonuses are above industry averages CEI and Presidents are both approachable

      Cons

      Benefits are weak compared to competitors

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