TEK doesn't actually live their values - Senior Recruiter TEKsystems Employee Review

2.0
Jan 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Few and far between lately. They do a pretty good job with their hiring process in terms of bringing in quality like minded folks which results in a good local office culture.

Cons

They don't reward determination, they punish it. If you don't hit your first contest after year 3 they deduct $1,500 from each quarterly bonus, even if you've hit contest early that year. It's a policy local and regional leadership isn't aware of and when escalated you're told it's "punishment for taking so long to hit contest". They only recognize inflation in terms of company profit. They recently increased the "burden" citing inflation, essentially they made it harder to hit your goal yet they didn't raise salaries or anything to help their employees dealing with cost of living increase. Leadership will tell you to "just grind harder". No consistent Christmas bonus which isn't really a huge deal but some years it was a sum of cash, others years you could pick a branded product, a contribution to charity in your name, this year everyone was given "membership" to a leadership AI chatbot that's basically a jelly of the month subscription. If you do earn your annual bonus from hitting contest who knows when you'll actually receive the cash (should you elect it). The date of payment dispersement changes every year and it's not communicated. Another "hustle, grind" company that claims to care about their employees.

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- The benefits suck. - High recruiter turnover with highly variable experience trying to work with them-- some are good, most are not. - Once you are placed, you will be promised regular meetings and then never hear from the recruiter again. - Trying to find a new contract if you are unhappy with your current placement is nearly impossible and I don't believe they are incentivized to help you move at all. - You have to manually request a raise and depending on how you negotiated your contract, you may or may not have the ability to receive one. - There is a cap to how much they will pay you for the contract so even if you work that position 4 years, once you hit that cap you are stuck. I originally submitted my resume with TekSystems when I had finished my degree and never heard back. Many years later, I was approached on LinkedIn by a TekSystems recruiter for a position and he had no idea I was in the system previously. Working with him was good, and I did get the position. Then I never heard from him again and I've had 4 or 5 different recruiters whose names I could not tell you if I tried since then. There's supposed to be monthly calls, they never happen.

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