QuinStreet reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(541 total reviews)
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Doug Valenti

72% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

QuinStreet has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 541 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The QuinStreet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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541 reviews
2.0
Sep 24, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Finance vertical is an industry leader - Own very strong finance and insurance websites - Have a few huge insurance clients

Cons

- Industry sees QuinStreet EDU as shady, dishonest and unorganized - EDU leadership only focuses on month over month revenue- NO strategy in place, constant "firedrills" - Completely unrealistic sales goals, expecting increase when clients are leaving constantly - New clients won't sign up with "Shady QuinStreet"- opting for agencies instead - EDU media is basically dead unless your goal is to fill your sales funnel with people only looking for jobs - No feedback and horrible people management - Fired or drove out the only people trying to actually improve the business

2.0
Jun 19, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly and supportive coworkers, very relaxed dress code, some of the managers and leads are quite friendly

Cons

Customer service people are treated like cattle, kept as temps via Randstad for upwards of 2-3+ years, and provided no benefits or vacation time, save for 7 days a year of combined sick/personal time. Virtually no growth opportunities, outside of a handful of people who beg, plead, and brown nose, and if you aren't friendly with senior staff, you will go nowhere. The work itself - lead generation - is extremely shady and you are encouraged to mislead customers as to the true nature of the work, and what will be done with their information. Excessive scrutiny of what you say and do, combined with massive turnover, has cultivated a paranoid atmosphere. Executive and administrative staff has almost zero involvement with the call center side, save for the rare visit with call center leads and managers, but don't acknowledge or speak to reps at all.

1.0
Dec 12, 2013

The Absolute worst career move I've ever made!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Aside from the free soda, bagels and coffee, there are absolutely no pros about working for this company. They lure you in with good benefits and pay, only to drive you into the ground.

Cons

Everything! I was recruited by them to move from the company I was working for at the time, and the benefits package they presented was quite attractive so I took it, then after a month or so working at QuinStreet I could see that this company functions very poorly, has absolutely no vision or long term strategy, and has a poor company culture. Anyone being recruited by QuinStreet to work for them, don't do it. My supervisor in the vertical I worked in touted the company essentially as a "mover and shaker" in the lead gen industry, which QUinStreet definitely is not. Also, they tout themselves as a technology company, which they certainly are not, the only thing they've done is acquire other tech companies and ATTEMPT to integrate that better technology into their existing verticals, in which they did a poor job. All they seem to do is blow smoke about how great QuinStreet is doing financially, when in reality, QuinStreet is just losing less money in their key verticals than in the past, check out their earnings call transcripts.

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