Checkr reviews

3.6

57% would recommend to a friend

(435 total reviews)
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Daniel Yanisse

66% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Checkr has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 435 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Checkr 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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435 reviews
1.0
Aug 14, 2024

Toxic, toxic, toxic!

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Pros

Some of the people, but only some...

Cons

Where to begin? This is by far the most toxic work environment I have ever been involved in. 1. Decided it was now a 'high performance culture' company, then proceeded to lay off all high performers 2. Entire US based support/operations/investigations/QA teams were laid off for cheap labor overseas (your personal identifiable information is now available to entire call centers in the Philippines) 3. Spouts a "fair chance mission" then laid off damn near every single fair chance employee once they got their use out of them by rolling them out at events and on billboards to tell other companies how they should hire 4. Fair chance program was obviously for tax breaks 5. Severance packages were a disgrace. Advertised as "10-18 weeks" however 8 weeks of this they had to give by law, due to the WARN policy. So in reality it was 2-10 weeks. 10 weeks for some folks who had given 7+ years... 6. No career growth whatsoever. It doesn't matter if you're the top performer in the entire company, you will not be rewarded with a pay rise or a promotion. Those died out a few years ago when they realized it would cost money to reward high performance. 7. CFO doesn't seem to know much about finance, which is ironic. Sets goals 75-100% higher than $'s made in the previous FY, then blames economic headwinds for the TERRIBLE forecasting. Definitely comes across as someone who invested in an NFT......... 8. Vanity projects/products need to stop. In the past 2+ years SO many new products have been rolled out then pulled back because no customers asked for them, and therefore didn't buy them 9. Core product (that made you a 'unicorn') has long been forgotten about, left to deteriorate while your competitors all out maneuver you

1.0
Jul 19, 2024

Liars

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Worked remote. Used to have great benefits. Good pay but they laid off all their highest paid employees to outsource cheap labor so that was a double edged sword.

Cons

They lie about our status as a company and employees. No transparency. Obvious favoritism. Poor financial planning. Selfish CEO and C Suite. Thanks for spending all that money on a company wide trip to Vegas, paying who knows what for extravagant high rise offices while insisting on RTO, then laying off nearly 400 people a few months later #priorities. Preached “high performance “ culture then let go their high performers after outsourcing jobs to people who can hardly perform basic tasks without hand holding. How is that working out for you?

1.0
May 22, 2024
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Pros

- immediate coworkers and management was good. Decent pay, but careful for pushing for too much. Was repeatedly told I was at the top of the pay band for senior and shouldn't expect much in terms of raises. Feels like that put a target on my back as someone who they could cut to save a lot of salary.

Cons

Fired 32% of their employees and then is posting jobs to fill engineering positions. Seems like if there was any forethought they would've fired less and moved people into those roles. Or perhaps people decided to leave after having watched Checkr reduce their benefits and and change their remote friendly working policies. Not much room to grow career wise unless it is in responsibilities and work load but not title and pay. Shifts in focus, priorities and reorganization of teams take place frequently. You will get a lower annual review if you work on things that do not directly generate revenue, even though your engineering and product managers tell you what they want you working on and you don't have much choice which team/focus you are on. In the end no matter how much you contribute and how good of a worker you are, you are entirely reliant on C-staff to not mismanage the company resulting in reductions in the workforce. Which unfortunately they have done repeatedly!!

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