Incredible potential but leadership needs an overhaul - Anonymous employee Checkr Employee Review

3.0
Jun 20, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very kind peers for the majority you come in contact with, extremely educated employees even in lower level roles, highly collaborative/cross functional culture overall, decent diversity though lacking in management, provides employees with latest and greatest resources and are getting better with what we still need, employee office perks and very attractive office space, CEO is very approachable and transparent. He also sits on different floors through the month to connect with different teams. Top product offering for customer and always innovating software as much as we can.

Cons

Very ego heavy leaders and some even are very unprofessional and rude/cold including HR. Seems that Managers only want ideas from who they think has value. Managers appear to be hired based on who they know within Checkr; nepotism in different departments. (Referrals are great but not when it’s clusters of people from the same companies/circles) We can feel the favoritism because those people get all the opportunities to be stretched while others who could do possibly a better job on those opportunities are snuffed. Some teams don’t want to truly collaborate they just want to get ideas and control the processes. Lots of people trying to outshine others so they can promote or move to another role. Really strong leaders who started with the company beginning are resigning. With the company being 5 years old there should be more consistency by now. Still very much a scrappy company with too many cooks in the kitchen. People get fired without notice and after only being here a short time, which is terrible.

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Checkr Response
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Appreciate your honest and critical feedback. I would encourage you to talk further with myself or our VP of HR. (She's certainly not cold or rude) A rapidly growing company certainly has changes and evolution. But we do believe in cutting the cord quickly if someone isn't a fit, and we do our best to give people soft landings to move on with their careers. As for early leaders leaving, as much as some hurt, some are natural changes that come with 5 yrs of evolution. Either way, your honest feedback is how we continue to grow and evolve, so please feel empowered to keep sharing it - directly or anonymously. - Arthur / Recruiting

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