Matlen Silver reviews

3.3

42% would recommend to a friend

(138 total reviews)

Jim DeSilver

63% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Matlen Silver has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 138 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Matlen Silver employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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138 reviews
1.0
Jun 14, 2017

Just no...

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Pros

-"work experience" for the resume

Cons

***HAD TO CLOSE A CHICAGO BRANCH DUE TO POOR DECISION MAKING AT THE TOP -Horrible management -Base salary, benefits and commission structure are not competitive with other staffing firms -Recruiters are peasants. Sales is heavily favored even though it takes two to tango -Push people into sales too fast. A lot of good recruiters left because they were pushed into sales. ADVICE: If you start in recruiting, make a lot of placements so that when they push you into sales you have commission to last while you burn yourself out trying to bring in new business, otherwise you will be living off a $35-45k salary. -No transparency. People have walked away from big accounts and a lot of commission because the company is that bad. Do not tell their employees if people are fired or left the company on their own. If employees do leave on their own, management will smear them even if they made a bunch of money for the company -No diversity in the company, racial bias are huge with management. Sexist as well -Do I need to keep going?

1.0
Feb 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Good entry level job to get experience - Met a few wonderful people along the way - If you prove yourself as a recruiter you can move into Account Management fairly quick, if that is the route you want to take.

Cons

- Leadership is not consistent, supportive, innovative, or forward-thinking. I expressed frustration/concerns to management about certain things that were negatively impacting the success of the business and was blatantly ignored/they changed the subject. - The commission structure and base pay are not consistent with competitors. - Benefits are not good. - There is no transparency. Instead, there is lying. - I was encouraged to "exaggerate" Matlen's success/capabilities to potential clients to obtain business. However - this was not exaggeration, it was lying. I consistently witnessed my manager lie to clients in front of me. - Also lie to employees about why people leave. - There has been a ton of turn over in the past two years including a few of the top sales earners leaving. - Most of these extremely positive reviews are fake, I was asked to write a positive review on Glassdoor during my time there.

1.0
Sep 7, 2016

Don't Let Prior Reviews Fool You

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Pros

No limit on commission you can make

Cons

Terrible Benefits and Base. Rarely is there any room for growth (although that is all they speak to and use as a selling point). CEO and HR wrote all the below reviews (note how they all sound vaguely similar). Company will use and abuse you and then have you train you're replacement.

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