iCIMS reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(793 total reviews)
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Jason Edelboim

58% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

iCIMS has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 793 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The iCIMS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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793 reviews
1.0
Jul 26, 2021

Trending Downhill... Fast.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- The people, your co-workers, make the job okay. - Lower-level management wants to help, but their hands are tied, and they can only do so much. Many of these individuals have left and were replaced with those who tout the company line, merely keeping the ship afloat amidst a sea of customer escalations.

Cons

**For those looking to apply here, please understand that many of the positive reviews you are reading are from new employees who have just started within the last 90 days, and one of the tasks as part of onboarding is to complete a review on Glassdoor, so take their short and positive reviews with a grain of salt.** iCIMS has been trending downward since Vista Equity, a PE firm took a position in the company. They installed their own CEO who came from a previous Vista organization (if you do your research, you can see how other companies have fared with Vista, as well as the current CEO). In early 2020, under the guise of COVID, they laid off a significant portion of staff, in an apparent effort to push out individuals as well as make the company appear more lean and profitable. Since then, many departments have been struggling to keep up with the work: Sales individuals have left as targets became higher, Professional Services received more work with no increase in headcount, Technical Services and the Support Desk became grossly understaffed and forced to work several hours above and beyond the normal work week to keep up with the ever growing case loads. Product became a mish-mash of products from other small companies iCIMS acquired to bolster the offering and make it look comparable to other startups who are innovating, building on a better tech stack, and actually utilizing things such as AI/ML. It is sad really - because iCIMS used to be a wonderful place to work. Now many departments are understaffed and overworked, and management has been trying to find creative ways to mitigate an outright disaster while keeping things afloat.

2.0
Jun 19, 2022

Sinking Ship

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent benefits. Decent work/life balance. "Unlimited" PTO.

Cons

TONS of turnover in the last 12mo, particularly from top talent. Leadership seems completely clueless, celebrating "wins" on LinkedIn despite morale being at an all-time low. Middle-management has a lot of micromanagers/jobsworths. Heavy focus on sales and marketing, to the detriment of the actual product. Tons of resources are dedicated to the annual marketing event "INSPIRE" which is largely a smoke and mirrors event, promoting features that don't (and may never) exist. There's no career growth or opportunities to learn since a lot of the best talent has left. Your skills will atrophy here.

1.0
Apr 22, 2020

Deceitful, fueled only by money

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working here, you wouldn’t build a product that would actively make the world more evil (like working at some banks or certain social networks).

Cons

Below-market pay. Their entire reason for existing is “to make $500 million a year”. Overly bureaucratic, too much red tape, nepotism/favoritism. Lack of leadership, vision, direction. Classic strategy of solicit feedback, pretend to listen, and then do what they want. Most recent round of layoffs (sudden, unexpected – the managers didn’t even know their own direct reports were being laid off until it was already done, and now they’re left wondering how they’re going to deliver on their products to the customers) are just a symptom of the problem. The only logical explanation for the way they handled the recent layoffs is that they actually wanted more people to leave voluntarily, so they tried to upset them and lower morale.

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