Kaztronix reviews

- Leadership/Competence of senior management (at least in the Tysons Corner office) is practically nonexistent - Very high turnover rate internally - PTO is given, but it is passive aggressively frowned upon when you request time off for personal reasons. However, upper management takes extensive vacations consistently throughout the year, which results in a disconnect between management and employees. - Employees are treated poorly, no perks/benefits here other than covered health care benefits. Occasionally they will host a happy hour on the company card, often as a moral booster or an as employee farewell. - Promotions are rarely given, and from my experience, were created to satisfy the demand from recruiters who were looking to advance. Since this is a start-up and there are less than 30 internal employees, positions were literally created for specific employees to be promoted. - Base salary for a recruiter is $30k, which is difficult to survive on in Northern Virginia. The commission rates are good, but you'll be lucky to see any payoff from that in the first few months. - Small number of clients means they rely heavily on each and every one- a hint of instability and pressure to perform well for certain clients are obvious. - Feedback is below average.. very rare to hear positive feedback from upper management. Often they will leave you alone (but secretly check on your productivity) until they are dissatisfied with your work performance. "Motivational" talks are light on the constructive part, and heavy on the criticism. - Blatant favoritism for destructive employees; creates a negative work environment. No standards of performance here.. employees who don't pull their own weight aren't reprimanded. Middle management offers thin support for employees, and is the CEO's lapdog. - Productivity (and in the end, how much money you make) is directly influenced by management's mood/opinion of you. Some days you will be micromanaged, and other days you will be overlooked. Not really a system for raking in the dollars. - Management will throw you under the bus if it directly benefits them. Recruiters are completely expendable here, and some days it feels like a sweatshop.

However, this was probably one of the most toxic work environments i've ever been in. The company as a whole is a total boys club, and they play the favoritism card just a little too much for my taste. Also, management probably shouldn't be giving promotions out to people who don't deserve it when there are much more qualified people simply because of who an employee chooses to have personal relations with. There is also no real development structure in terms of the recruiters. They give you a week or two of "training" and then throw you to the wolves and scold you when you don't make your call numbers, and also cover their backs by having multiple daily "meetings" (aka standing around doing nothing as a group, and taking away from our time to make calls and be productive) to make it look like we're being developed as recruiters. Overall, this place is run by a bunch of children who have no idea how to actually run a business, and can't seem to figure how that correlates with the fact that the employee retention rate is non existent.