CEI reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(264 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

CEI has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 264 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CEI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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264 reviews
1.0
Jan 26, 2020

Poorly run company and turnover is very high!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I really can’t think of one other than having parking and not being down town.

Cons

All the 5 star reviews on here are written by managers that are told to write them to boost the score. Terrible environment, no flexibility, extremely poor and unqualified managers with 0 leadership training. They do a lot of things that are borderline unethical and illegal.

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CEI Response
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Thank you for your feedback. At all times CEI strives to provide a positive work environment for all of our team members and to abide by our core values of excellence, integrity, dedication, fairness and trust with all employees, partners and clients . CEI does not compromise on upholding ethical and legal standards. Current and former employees are always encouraged to share feedback, concerns, and suggestions for improvement through their managers or with our HR representatives so that we can continually get better.
5.0
Jan 16, 2020

Experience

Recommend
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Pros

I learn many things from the company

Cons

Homesickness .Bad experience living outside the country

2.0
Jan 9, 2020
Recommend
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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.

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