Carahsoft reviews

3.1

49% would recommend to a friend

(1,079 total reviews)

Craig P. Abod

64% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Carahsoft has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,079 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Carahsoft 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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1K reviews
1.0
Mar 4, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I met a ton of friends at the company, work on a team consisting of people ages 22-26 who all go out together. Random incentive perks like gift cards, bottles of alcohol, and the promise of the tropical vacation. If sales is the route you want to take with your career, a year here will lead you to many other sales roles. The pros depend on the team, some teams offer decent training and decent experience, you get to build direct relationships with vendors on most teams. If you're afraid of the phone, you won't be by the end of your first week.

Cons

There is no HR department. People are right when they say it's a running joke. You're going to be telemarketing, no matter what they say you will be doing, you will be telemarketing. It's all about how many calls you've made and how many minutes you were on the phone. On some teams only the leads have any work to do despite team members requesting leads delegate work while other teams unload more work than humanly possible with impossible deadlines basically setting employees up for failure. Also, don't bother emailing anything to team members because nobody ever emails you back unless they're pissed at you. No parking, no room for growth, tons of favoritism, low pay, strict hours, teams are not created equally. Don't apply unless you love being unhappy, but hey you get to go to Jamaica or Mexico with the company if you make it through a year... I hope you don't enjoy holidays and time off because you work every government holiday. You'll have people hired a few months before you on ridiculous, unchecked power trips. Also, you WILL owe major taxes come April, even if you think you did your forms correctly.

1.0
Feb 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Gain sales experience Visa gift cards Open bars Trip to Jamaica Reggae Fest

Cons

No HR department "Marketing" ha. No employee handbook (no clear set rules for anything - employee dress code, defined hours, harassment behavior, scheduling appointments with management, drinking during the work day, no clear system for pay scale, etc) Obvious favoritism shown among employees Complete and total lack of professionalism Little to no company organization Terrible pay (just get rid of the perks and "interns" and pay your employees more) You will get to work in that snowstorm or die trying (you will get endless calls and reprimaded if you don't go in) Outright favoritism and excessive management of employees (to the point of harassment) but they get away with it because 1) there’s no HR department 2) everyone looks the other way which creates a dangerous and apathetic environment 3) it’s majority college grads that just need to make $ so they don’t even want to speak up 4) it’s only apparent/obvious on some teams Best way to legitimately get promoted? Create an inappropriate relationship by becoming best friends with your team lead or director. Carahsoft is synonymous with Big Brother Don’t ever expect to ever have a real conversation with management where they actually care what you have to say.

2.0
Jan 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

decent first job for kids coming right out of college, and that is exactly who they target

Cons

employees still act like they are in college. Management doesn't help by letting them drink while working. There is no where to move up within this company

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