Another typical agency... - Recruiter/Agent Aquent Employee Review

1.0
May 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You may be able to make some friends. There are interesting and cool people that work there.

Cons

-poor management. They will make a manager out of someone with zero leadership skills. Other managers are remote so they have no clue what's even happening at their own locations. -They hold you to hitting FTE goals that are impossible to maintain. If you don't hit them, they give you another impossible goal to hit as a warning. If you don't hit it, you'll be fired. This happens nationwide and all the employees know it. -They lure you in with promises of work life balance, unlimited vacation time, a house in hawaii, promotion from within. It's a sham. It's a flat organization by design, and it will stay that way. They say you can work 9-5, but in order to get everything done you have to stay late, take work home, or work on weekends, not to mention all the events you'll have to attend. There is no such thing as unlimited vacation time, with any employer in the world-that claim doesn't even make sense. Think about it. Forget about the house in Hawaii...just.forget.it. -This is not a job for rational people. -This is not a job for entrepreneurs. That would mean that you have some say over what you do on a daily basis, and trust me, you do not.

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Cons

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