TEKsystems reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(9,962 total reviews)
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Mark Collins

74% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

TEKsystems has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,962 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The TEKsystems 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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2.0
Dec 27, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Various recruiter types are pretty good about keeping in touch. You're not completely invisible like with other contracting companies. Quick response from the payroll department for anything timesheet-related. They have summer and Christmas parties. Account people will come around and hand out swag or Starbucks etc gift cards. They will occasionally take you out to lunch - nice, but realistically it's mostly to kiss up to the client. Overall they're above average as far as contracting/recruiting companies when it comes to contact.

Cons

Their negotiating tactics are pathetic. Don't believe anything said on the phone - get it in writing. The account managers are well-trained to sound sincere when they ask "Is there anything you need?", but if you ask for something specific there is never any followup. They are excellent at glad-handing and pretending to care. Frankly, it gets to the point where one prefers a company that clearly doesn't care over one that constantly pretends to. Biggest beef - there was a large layoff; employees who had vacation benefits were told they had to use vacation prior to layoff date, which was a violation of state labor law (acrued vacation = wages already earned). Some employees who didn't know any better fell for it. Tek got paid regular hours by the client and then didn't have to pay out the vacation separately. This hurt many employees financially on top of being laid off, and was probably the sleaziest move I've ever seen from a contracting company. This kind of tactic deserved a poor rating.

1.0
Dec 15, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

TEKsystems invests a lot of time into training their employees. Other than that, there is nothing good to say. They say they care about their employees, but they don't. They are a 5+ billion dollar company and they still offer below than average health benefits to their employees. There was one point that the company had too much money and they had to "bleed the tires" so they gave all of the employees that were already making a ton of money a huge bonus. Nothing for anyone else and/or no changes to the health benefits. The number one thing on the bi-annual employee survey every year is better health benefits, and every year they go un-changed.

Cons

Excessive hours; Management wants to know everything about your personal life so they can use it against you; Unfair promotions; Incompetent managers; Micro management techniques that they refer to as "performance management" because they say they don't micro manage. They are so bell bent on how the company was started and the "culture" that they ignore everything else that can make the company better.

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