CareerBuilder reviews

3.6

52% would recommend to a friend

(1,627 total reviews)
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Jeff Furman

72% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

CareerBuilder has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,627 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CareerBuilder 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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2K reviews
1.0
Sep 24, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The location is great. The lounge downstairs is great. The base pay is ok, but not 40k. Be sure to read your contract. Those are literally the only perks.

Cons

As a sales professional, I’ve seen the good, bad and ugly. CareerBuilder is the ugly. You’ll have managers who throw entire teams under the bus rather than admit to lackadaisical training and ignoring concerns. There’s a company culture of quitting on the last day to ensure you get paid. You’ll be promised bonuses that never come. People are fired constantly leaving the office like a revolving door of talent. All of the longtime employees seem jaded or scared. The best thing about working at CareerBuilder is the lounge owned by a different company. The sales directors are potty mouthed and unprofessional. The C-level team is also extremely unprofessional and have even been caught making discriminatory comments. The CEO actually came to the sales floor, cracked a transphobic joke and left. One of our team members was visibly upset about the comment and nobody thought to check in, except me. This isn’t a place for the young or hopeful. Your youth will be wasted. Also, if you have kids, this job isn’t secure enough to provide for them. You may get fired for reading this message. Avoid them like the plague unless you’re desperate.

1.0
Apr 17, 2019

Leadership Has No Clue

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation can be pretty good, but good luck hitting those numbers with the "training" new hires are getting.

Cons

Leadership doesn't know how half the products actually work, or how the business actually functions. There are a few bright spots, but not a lot of confidence in these "rah rah" meetings and the pointless statistics they parade out there.

1.0
Nov 19, 2019

High Turnover

Recommend
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Pros

Products aren’t the worse. If you can be satisfied living off base salary maybe this is for you.

Cons

Where to even begin. First thing they tell you when interviewing is everyone knows the CareerBuilder name and using brand recognition will help with sales. This is your first lie. Nobody uses CareerBuilder except the major companies with billions of dollars. People hit their quota. This is the second lie, maybe 5% of people hit quotas. Sales reps in the top 20 people of entire company are 1/3 of the way to quota. Aggressively hiring new people for sales, and some leave within a few weeks. Seeing new reps come in happy and excited only to quit or realize the mistake they made by being misled is just sad. There is no opportunity here for advancement or a stable career. When some of the most tenured people on the sales floor have been there less than a year, something is very wrong. Advise to look elsewhere unless you have nothing else. Would not recommend.

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