Great Company - Terrible Local Leadership - Account Manager TEKsystems Employee Review

2.0
Nov 4, 2010
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Pros

Market recognition as a premiere provider of services; sense of accomplishment in assisting great professionals with career opportunities; overall (most offices) sense of teamwork and belonging to a great organization; awesome training culture and tool/resorces provided; great place for recent grads to learn business skills and interact with C-Level, hiring managers and directors that they may not have been able to receive at other employers.

Cons

Parity in promotions; local leadership not truly in-line with corporate directives (not following the same directives and policies they are instructing you to do so); "face time" required to be considered a team-player, rather than your body of work and results speak for itself; typically instructed to price RFP's and prospective client(s)/projects too high thus limiting market growth as they want to set a "target spread" or margin for each professional placed on-site/project - this leads to competitors gaining marketshare based on cost alone rather than quality of candidates.

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5.0
May 6, 2026
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Pros

Good folks.. Solid company with good recruiters.

Cons

Lots of paperwork to get hired on for contract work.

3.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

- Decent pay to start. - Account manager is responsive, engaging, and a serious advocate for you and your contract. - Gain access to Udemy Business to build more skills.

Cons

- 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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