CareerBuilder reviews

3.6

50% would recommend to a friend

(1,626 total reviews)
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Jeff Furman

71% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

CareerBuilder has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,626 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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2.0
May 9, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be great place to work despite the lower pay than market average due to various perks, now it's just a desolate place to work for under average pay. Maybe if you stayed, in a few years and if it bounced back after Apollo, you could get something out of it? Decent work life balance even when other things went bad (I'd imagine this is YMMV depending on the team)

Cons

- Lower than average pay. - People with knowledge of existing systems have left so if something breaks, many people are left scratching their heads - After the acquisition, the general attitude from higher management seemed to be that employees are threats to the company's profitability. - Policy changes not communicated to employees until after they are in effect (401k matching was not paid until the end of the year, but they didn't tell us until a week or two into the year) - The company would rather let knowledgeable people go without giving them raises to put them at market average, and then hire new engineers at considerably higher wage despite them not going to be ramped up for months. - Some senior management brought in by Apollo are down right condescending. - Seems to be more worried about getting money to hire yet another C-level exec or similar than to give money to managers to allow basic cost of living adjustments to employees

1.0
May 8, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

It’s a Paycheck. Not a good one but still better than being homeless. There are benefits Paychecks are currently coming on time

Cons

Pay Environment Management Sr management CEO Irina is a corporate raider - cutting and gutting departments and products. Anthony Dupree is joke. Literally has no clue what he’s doing and for some reason thinks he’s better than everyone. You are an illiterate bum who needs to head back to college for a 4th degree because the first few didn’t help. Both will likely drive CB into the ground

1.0
May 10, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

CareerBuilder was once a good company to work for in which senior leaders cared (or appeared to care) about the staff. We had quarterly bonuses, and a decent work/life balance. There was also a certain amount of autonomy granted to employees, giving you the option to work from home here and there, which was nice. Although we weren't paid as much as those at other companies, they made up for it with various incentives.

Cons

I'm not sure where to start with the cons. Since being acquired, more than half of the company was eliminated in a giant sweep, which also included a large portion of the customer care and tech teams. Technology is struggling to be maintained and it's obvious that a large portion of that work has been outsourced. People are treated like they are now disposable, and it's stressed constantly to be "positive," despite the environment being incredibly hostile. Any recent positive reviews here look like they are padded to boost the overall ratings, because this is a sinking ship and our noses are barely above water.

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