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NCSA College Recruiting

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Avoid this company at all costs. - Developer NCSA College Recruiting Employee Review

1.0
Apr 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

-Free bagels once a month when I worked there? Nothing else really.

Cons

This is the worst company I've ever worked for. Management at the time wanted to outsource mobile work and scoffed at the idea of me building their app (I'm a lead mobile developer now btw). This company is a laughing stock in the Chicago software contracting scene. Their internship program is just an easy way of getting free-labor. I knew someone who got around the free internship, but he mentioned that some of the coworkers were hostile to him because of that. Management would give advice like, "add this image of a calendar to this page" even though they had a product / designer. There would be no rhyme or reason other than to flex their power. Pay is subpar. They brought in a consultant to help with the codebase. We got on the topic of salary. Because there were 10+ engineers at the time, the consultant mentioned we should have been paying over $1 million dollars a year on the team. But my manager mentioned it was closer to $500k. The consultant's face turned white. Yup.

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5.0
Apr 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The people are the secret sauce of NCSA - it's a great team that wants win, innovate, and grow together. Lots of opportunities to provide feedback and connect with leadership.

Cons

The work can be challenging and very demanding.

2.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Work from home - Get to talk about sports every day, and getting to learn about new sports - Manager was awesome, but I may have been lucky - I heard bad things about other managers! - There are about 10 teams of Recruiting Coordinators, all performing the same role, and each team being managed differently. Not sure if this is a pro or con

Cons

- Making around 100 calls/day - Leads are technically not cold, but they might as well be - lots of families didn't realize what they were signing up for - Over half of the leads in my funnel every day were recycled, i.e. we have called them in the past and they were not interested. Sometimes leads were recycled upwards of 10 times - Making phone calls from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm local time - often calling families at 7 -8 pm their time - Will likely be flagged if you go more than 20 minutes without making a call unless communicating with your manager

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