First Advantage reviews

3.3

44% would recommend to a friend

(1,108 total reviews)

Scott Staples

69% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

First Advantage has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,108 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Advantage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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1.0
Jul 7, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

There is nothing positive to say. This was a total waste of time and talent.

Cons

Constant micromanagement and fear of job loss. No raises and loss of 401K match!They recently started using this new Workforce Management software and this thing is used to completely track everyone's adherence to schedule, breaks, phone availability, after call work, etc. Basically, you are being monitored non-stop and they send out a spreadsheet to everyone daily to show everyone's stats. This is also used to determine if you get any raise and since it is impossible to achieve good stats with the work load might as well forget about a raise. Yeah they have this "Name in lights" recognition where they pick a couple random names from a hat and give the peron half hour of PTO or some joke like that but that is only for the customer service group. Nobody else gets any recognition which is a slap in a face especially to the people that worked there for years. They keep hiring new people but do not provide adequate training before they put the poor souls on the phones to represent the company. They also recently brought India support back to the US and started to cross train all employees to support everything which is literally impossible due to the amount of different platforms they have. They call this TCX or 'total customer experience' which is only a camouflage to put double the work on everybody since India no longer takes calls. After a half a year of this chaos and nonsense they are still not meeting their quotas and they decide to lay off more of the few experienced people that know what to do and that train people. So now they still have the same management responsible for this failure but as always the hard working employees trying to salvage the situation get kicked out.

4.0
Jul 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good working condition, good collections skills, developed professional approach , much to learn, reconciliation activities

Cons

Less appraisals , low recognition , less employee benefits

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First Advantage Response
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Thanks for your thoughtful review! We believe in our vision, and with the help of our valued employees, we can continue to transform the industry. We do encourage you to reach out to your manager or HR partner if you have constructive feedback on ways to improve. Many thanks!
2.0
Jul 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Account Management team has made many changes and NOW providing training.

Cons

If you were employed a year ago or more there wasn't any type of training provided. It was trial and error. The current VC plan sucks. Within the last 5 months it's change multiple times and it's still not definite. 56 employees were just laid off and there's proven fact that they are not finished. Financially the company is in trouble.

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