I cannot emphasize enough how toxic this company is and honestly don’t know where to start - whether it's the racism, sexism, passive-aggressive and toxic work environment, or little opportunity for growth, you name it, this is not a good place to work. The company runs its recruiters on a pyramid scheme. They lie from the start about how much you can make in commission, while paying their employees a base salary that is not enough to live on (especially in a city) and promise 20k more than you will be making, despite working the insane hours they are expecting. They require you to be “on call” one day a week, meaning if someone needs to fill a temporary job over the weekend, you have to be on your phone at crazy hours of the night/morning to fill the position, and they will get mad at you if you do not answer your phone (even on weekends, holidays, or on vacation). I can’t say enough about how toxic the environment is - whenever something goes wrong with a client or a candidate, even when it is out of anyone's realm of control (an illness, emergency, etc.) they blame it on their recruiters. Management would constantly be talking about how they “didn’t have time to eat during the day” and missed lunch because they were working so hard and were passive-aggressive to people who took their lunch break, cared about their mental health and work-life balance, or left the office at 5 pm. They mask their controlling and toxic environment by saying it is “encouraging” when in actuality, they are comparing and pitting coworkers against each other so they can work them harder and make more money for the company. There is a high level of micromanagement - Employees were required to work on Zoom calls on remote workdays, masked to be “fun”, but were implemented to control employees and flag them down for anything they might have done wrong. On in-office days, employees are told not to go into private rooms to work (even for 15-20 minutes) because management wants to “hear how many calls you are making”. Management disrespected employees every day I worked there - talking badly about people in front of other employees, even making fun of employees who were let go, saying they should “work at a train station” or “weren’t good enough to work for any of their clients”. There is no diversity at Beacon Hill, and it is appalling that a company that claims to be “committed to DEI and hiring candidates no matter their background” blatantly promotes racism and discrimination. Someone extremely high up in the company used racially offensive language to describe a candidate, and recruiters are told that some clients only want candidates from specific colleges and even some from only specific fraternities or sororities! Beacon Hill is built on a completely inequitable system. It pains me to say it, but Beacon Hill even sided with a client that fired an employee for no other reason than reporting sexual assault because they didn’t want to have to deal with the HR situation. The reason there is no diversity in the company is that anytime a candidate from a different background (not from a Big 10 school who was in Greek life and has a “bubbly and social” personality) interviewed for an internal position, they would say they “didn’t fit the Beacon Hill personality” despite them being perfectly qualified. Don’t even bother standing up for yourself or your candidates, because they will threaten to fire you, and ask if you “really want to be there”. Beacon Hill preys on undergrads who do not know the difference between a good and a bad work environment and pulls them in by raising salary expectations that never come true. It is not surprising that so many people have/are quitting the company after the way they treat their employees. Stay away from Beacon Hill - whether you are an internal candidate, a client, or a candidate working with them to find a job.
