The Intersect Group reviews

The culture has changed significantly over time. The combination of private equity ownership and constant pressure for short-term results has created an environment where metrics often take priority over people and long-term success. Turnover is exceptionally high, making it difficult to build stable teams or maintain continuity with clients and candidates. It often feels like you're constantly onboarding new colleagues while saying goodbye to experienced performers. Micromanagement is another major challenge. Rather than empowering experienced recruiters to operate autonomously, there is an overwhelming focus on activity tracking, reporting, and oversight. For seasoned producers, this creates an environment built on control instead of trust. Leadership has also become a concern. Expectations frequently shift, communication can be inconsistent, and decisions sometimes feel reactive rather than strategic. The result is uncertainty, low morale, and limited confidence in long-term direction. Many talented recruiters leave not because of the work itself, but because of how the organization is managed. Overall, if you thrive in a highly structured, metrics-driven environment with constant oversight, this may be a fit. If you're looking for a culture built on trust, stability, leadership development, and long-term investment in employees, there are likely better options.

However, management puts so much pressure on leadership, implementing changes without truly hearing the voices of the production teams or knowing where the issues were coming from. There unfortunately is a lot of favortism and lack of diversity that plays a big role..not even sure there was much honesty going on at the end there. The executive recruiting team no longer functioned as a true executive search group as it once did. They are now just an extension of the contract recruiting team who mainly recruits on direct hire at any level now. It's hard to have a true voice there or grow in your career, and the expectations were high for having no support. The executive recruiting team hasn't had a manager leading that team in years who truly understood direct hire at the high level and focused only on that team. You can do well there, but they make it very hard for you unfortunately. It has become a group of mainly inexperienced, straight out of college workers. The 1 on 1's were also unhelpful (I'm usually a big fan of weekly 1 on 1's) - felt like they didn't know how to people manage and advocate for their teams.