CareerBuilder reviews

3.6

52% would recommend to a friend

(1,628 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 1,628 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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1.0
Sep 19, 2018

The emperor has no clothes

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Pros

A few decent people remain

Cons

Products are way behind, built on ancient technology. Anything new is mostly a gimmick (do people really walk down the street holding up their phone to see who’s hiring in the building in front of them?) or they try to leach off of what Google is doing and claiming it as their own. Management is drinking the koolaid and trying to convince others ( and themselves) that things are getting better and “CB is back!”. Take a look at the revenue and renewal trend for the truth.

1.0
Jun 4, 2018

Burning ship for developers

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Pros

The engineers and up through mid level management here are top notch people who have a passion for building good products. The hours are flexible which makes interviewing elsewhere easy.

Cons

Too much work and too much attrition coupled with a deaf dumb and blind C block have led to an environment that is hemorrhaging top talent and leaders. The only people left are those that care too much about what it was to realize its no longer possible to rebuild. Myself included. Pay is miserable. Changes are made to compensation structures on short notice and communicated poorly in addition to being not well defined. The new management does not have a problem with crushing developers under short sighted decisions.

1.0
May 31, 2018

RUN

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Pros

N/A CB used to have great work environment, employees, managers, career pathing, bonuses, trips for top performers, team outings. All of that is gone. The great employees that used to fill the halls of CB are all but gone. The handful of quality employees are actively searching for jobs elsewhere. It would be one thing if the pay was great but unfortunately that has always been mediocre. You would think a company that has access to all of this salary data would at least pay market average.

Cons

The COO is a tyrant trying to make a name for herself. The CIO is in way over his head. In multiple team meetings he has said, "a bachelor’s degree only tells me that you can read and write. It’s shocking that you all were able to get jobs here." They fired 120 people when Apollo took over, which is actually completely fine because that’s business. But when you follow it up with completely changing the culture, not giving yearly merit increases, taking away the trip to Mexico for top performers, taking away quarterly team outings; well that's when this place becomes unbearable. 100+ employees have since quit and more walk out on a daily basis. This used to be a company full of amazing people. Since Apollo took over, 90% of those employees have left for better opportunities. The 10% that remain are looking for other jobs at their desks (on LinkedIn or Indeed). They finally gave out promotions and raises on April 1st, 2018 after 2 full years without either and sadly raises averaged 1.5% and promotions averaged 4-5% increases. Honestly, everything that made CareerBuilder great is gone. Like the title says, don’t walk away from a CareerBuilder opportunity, RUN.

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