314e Reviews

I have been working at 314e full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Great work/life balance, don't have to bring your work home.
-You have an 8-5 or 9-6 job (can come in any time between 8-9am and leave after your 8 hours + 1 hour lunch)
-Not too stressful of a work environment
-Just established a commission plan, though the plan is not as competitive as other places, still is more than the commission plan previously offered, which was nothing
-Free Monday morning breakfasts (usually bagels, yogurt, and granola)
-Young company/employees that mostly consists of recent grads, fun young environment
-Employees who leave this company normally advance to bigger and better opportunities, great first job and a transition between college and the real professional world

Cons – -Young company/employees, means immaturity in some cases
-No idea how they decide to promote or favor some employees while completely failing to recognize others, only throwing money at them when they feel like or know that employee is about to leave
-Lack of transparency in senior management
-CEO is not willing to loosen the purse strings to provide more perks for employees. We are a young company, and know what our peers with our skill sets are being provided at their companies. This creates desire to leave the company when we feel we aren't being appreciated, and only feeds the very high turnover rate (employees normally leave after the 10-14 month mark )
-Virtually no/very little opportunity for growth. After associate there is team lead (there's only 2) on the recruiting side, none on sales side, and after that is only Director level which no Associate has or probably will reach.

Advice to Senior Management – Please show some more employee appreciation as well as provide more opportunities for growth. This can help with he high turnover rate. Also, favoritism is very obvious and we are very aware of it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at 314e as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – I got a paycheck, although sometimes it was late.

Cons – Late payrolls. Lazy, uninformed recruiters. Account nazis who removed expenses from reports without reason or notification. High turnover among internal employees. They've completely forgotten to mark large expense reports as approved, delaying payment. If you work for them as a contractor, expect at least one frustrating email a week where they are trying to rip you off. Also expect them to be totally inconsistent as to what's reimbursable and what's not when traveling.

Advice to Senior Management – Train your recruiting and office staff better, and maintain your finances so you don't stiff people on their paychecks.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at 314e full-time

Pros – Great starting point post college. Definitely a learning environment; the peers are great to work with and it's a fun environment without a lot of pressure. The smaller size allows for more growth as you get to take on a variety of different roles, and you are able to express opinions and make suggestions to upper management. I've seen a lot of negative reviews about this place, but from my experience if you work hard and communicate frequently with management your hard work will eventually be recognized and rewarded. They really like to see initiative, and if you make it known that you want to learn more and do more, more responsibility will be awarded.

Cons – This place definitely moves at its open pace, and there can be some slow times. More communication and employee appreciation is necessary, but I have seen a lot of improvements since I first started working here. Less of a disconnect between associates and management is necessary.

I worked at 314e as a contractor

Pros – Great customers. Abhishek himself cannot be everywhere - but he is trying to do it all by himself. Epic believes in Abhishek and so do several large customers.

Cons – The CEO is very greedy and it appears that he wants to do whatever it takes to make a quick buck. This is not how you build a long-lasting enterprise.

Advice to Senior Management – Grow up, Abhishek. Remember that your biggest strength is your employees. You need to take care of your assets because without them you are nothing. Sending a card during Christmas will cost you net to nothing!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at 314e full-time for less than a year

Pros – I did not experience anything positive.

Cons – Life and career advancement is hard enough - steer clear of this organization and save yourself some grief. The previous reviewers are all 100% correct.

Advice to Senior Management – Perhaps a business ethics class would help?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at 314e full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great place to start for recent graduates and no experience is required. All employees are from UC schools. It's not a bad job for new graduates as you learn about how data centers and how electronic medical record systems operate. Salary is alright - begins at 38k and continuously goes up after six or so months.

It's a great place to work after you gain about nine months of experience and leverage for a large corporation. The industry is growing

Cons – Employee retention is not very high. No career growth. No bonuses or commissions until the end of the year (must stay until the end of the year to get a bonus, which is undefined and not explicitly state on any sort of contract). No benefits.

Work environment is like a sweatshop. In a sense it is a telemarketing company. You will never see the client. If calls aren't made you will be let go. Managers micromanage and day-to-day tasks never change.

Saw a lot of faces coming and going and lots of interviews.

Lastly, the industry is growing and career growth within is not.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop micromanaging, figure out an incentive program upon recruiters placements and sales closing deals. Maybe its a quarter commission plan or a monthly commission plan. Treat the employees like workers and offer more benefits.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at 314e full-time for less than a year

Pros – Entry-level opportunities: Although school ranking and GPA are considered, 314e hires recent graduates without preference of major and they are willing to train.

Work-life balance: Employees never stay past 5:30pm.

Cons – Employee turnaround rate: As an employee who had worked there for very close to one year, in my time I had seen at the very least 18 other employees leave, whether they had been there for a few months or had been hired only a month previously. It is rare for an employee to stay at 314e past one year. Most employees treat this job as an initial stepping stone or as a temporary job while looking for something or waiting on something else.

Career growth: There is not much room for career growth - after Senior Sales or Senior Recruiting Associate, there is nowhere to go. Senior positions are only two away from entry level positions.

Work environment: Telemarketing environment. Work duties are mundane.There are numbers to meet on both the Sales and Recruiting side.

Lack of professionalism: an unheard of amount of fraternizing among employees.

Lack of quality of benefits: Kaiser plan with co-payments of $30; no dental coverage; 10 pto days by accrual; 2 sick days for the year.

Corporate strategy: 314e's business strategy and growth is stagnant at best. Earlier on in the year, they tried to expand the business by working with a number of different EMRs. Due to lack of organization and progress, they reverted back to working with only one EMR, Epic, which has a number of limitations and requirements that will not allow the company to grow quickly enough. Because they only work with one EMR, their client base is limited and they have heavy competition with other agencies for the same candidates. Moreover, relationships between 314e and candidates/previous employed consultants are poorly maintained and/or tarnished, therefore adding further difficulty to finding candidates to fill jobs.

Micro-management: Managers micro-manage more heavily here than any other company I have every worked for. Managers will also respond to clients and candidates on behalf of an employee through said employee's email account without actual permission from the employee.

Lack of transparency: The best way to describe upper management is that it is a definite 'Boys' Club'. They are also very passive and dishonest, which makes communication almost impossible and severely ineffective and inefficient.

Low morality: Senior management operates on little to no morality:
- Managers will submit resumes on behalf of candidates without having actually received permission from the candidate. They submit these resumes to 'prospects jobs' in hopes of acquiring a new contract. This is misleading to the client as they may be looking at a resume of someone who isn't even interested or available.
- Managers will submit candidate resume to jobs of hospitals they have no relationship with, which is misleading to candidates and explains the lack of call-backs.
- There exists a secret side business with one major Sacramento client that exists purely because of a previous tarnished relationship between 314e's CEO and that hospital. Although it is operating in the same building alongside 314e, it is forbidden to be spoken about and treated as invisible.
- Although it is all a part of the business, 314e will often try to pay consultants far under the rate they deserve. In the time that I was with 314e, I have not seen a client bill rate under $120/hour, and they often go up to $150/hour. Although some consultants manage to achieve $80-90/hour, management will often offer consultants in the $60/hour range. Management will make the Recruiter unwillingly offer this amount and make the Recruiter handle the situation when it backfires.

Advice to Senior Management – The lack of honest and positive business relations and lack of actual regard for employees will be the ultimate downfall for this company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at 314e full-time for less than a year

Pros – The people are friendly and young, everyone gives a helping hand. Co-workers hang out a lot outside of work and form many good friendships. The transition from college to workplace is very easy. Good stepping stone to learn a lot of skills that can be very transferable at other companies.

Cons – Not much upward mobility. Bottom line is for them to make money and make your numbers at the end of the day. Relatively high turnover rate.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop monitoring calls/emails, it doesn't give employees the feel of privacy or stability.

I worked at 314e full-time

Pros – - Good place for new grads
- Hours are reasonable
- Work is easy, young in-office environment

Cons – - Management is very passive aggressive
- Dead end in terms of job responsibilities, career growth
- many false promises from upper management, not enough attention/training to incoming employees
- No investment in infrastructure/employees
- No Commission...leads to unmotivated employees (sales and recruiting jobs, yet no pay for performance)

Advice to Senior Management – Hire some senior managers, reduce the micro management and change compensation structure to commission

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at 314e

Pros – Young office staff, opportunity to have a big influence, growing quickly, great location near Silicon Valley, small company with small company atmosphere

Cons – Incompetent/inexperienced management, no documented policies or procedures, constantly interviewing for open positions, regularly firing employees, no communication/feedback on job performance, no clearly designated responsibilities, regularly misrepresents clients and candidates, no employee appreciation, very few holidays/PTO

Advice to Senior Management – On the recruiting side, hire a Recruiting Manager with relevant industry experience and previous management responsibilities. For all departments, properly train new joiners and provide clearly documented job responsibilities. Incorporate feedback and stop micro-managing!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend