Rough place- avoid if you want career stability
Pros
1) The work was fun and within about a month, you will know if you are beginning to get somewhere. 2) The training is thorough.
Cons
1) The company is highly focused on money, especially in a COVID cash-strapped world. 2) They talk a good game about caring for employees, but don't deliver on that. It is a sink-or-swim environment. 3) The company has been in a panic since no one was hiring due to COVID recently. Managers still don't know how to react going from a great economy to a recovering one. 4) Other companies are cheaper and find the same people, in fact sometimes the EXACT same people... employers know it too, so why choose Randstad? 5) Managers will throw you under the bus if their bottom-line for their branch isn't acceptable to higher. 6) They expect the branches to do all of the work for the areas they cover-down on, which is fine, but some areas are better than others in terms of sales. There is extra pressure on the staffing managers in these lower-earning territories to perform. 7) Targets for revenue during COVID were unrealistic for the emergency duration. 8) 20% staffing reduction and 5% pay cut within a month of COVID 19... more are probably coming after COVID settles out, but that is speculative. 9) The clientele is blue-collar and so is the management at branch level. If you don't like to work with blue-collar types, this is certainly not the job for you. 10) Company IT stinks badly... it is an amalgam of old and new systems that do not always have compatibility or ease-of-use. If you get annoyed easily with bad computer systems, DO NOT work here. Randstad was probably hot stuff in the Netherlands where they were founded, but in the US market, there is WAY more competition and other companies will undercut Randstad pretty easily price and quality-wise for temp labor.
