Aerotek Reviews

Pros

-Got to meet new people
-Got a certificate for "graduating" training
-The company I was working at was ok...

Cons

-Recruiters won't help you
-Don't care about your needs, only theirs
- Refuse to sign papers for assistance after they make you quit
- Every recruiter I had was VERY rude
- Lied about my job in general
--- said it was NOT a call center and it was
--- said it would be paid 40 hours a week training and it was only 20 hours
--- told me I would get to set my hours
--- said we would get same benefits as company I was working at

Advice to Senior Management

Try to not lie to people when offering them jobs and help people out more than, "I don't know, ask these people " and give me a phone number. Over all VERY, VERY, VERY unprofessional company. I would have rather worked at Mcdonalds than for you.

Pros

Learned a lot professionally and was challenged.

Cons

People who work here have NO LIFE outside of work. I worked overtime starting the first week I was there, I dont mind working overtime on occasion but if you left on time here co-workers and managers alike take it as a lack of dedication and drive. Aerotek is a cult. They call their environment "feedback" friendly but its just managers tearing you down and telling you that you arent good at your job no matter how much overtime you put in or how hard you are working, nothing will ever be good enough. I am all about CONSTRUCTIVE critiscm but Aerotek makes their culture a place where it starts to become nearly impossible to feel good about the work you do because their is little to no encouragement. I left the office in tears (as did many others) at least once a week. The atrition rate here is sky high, when i started i was on a team of 8.. within weeks after i left there were 2 people still on my team.

Advice to Senior Management

Follow in the footsteps of companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Genentech. Their employees are there for the long-haul and are willing to work their butt's off because they know that their hard work is appreciated and they don't take advantage of their employees. Maybe if you completely reconstruct how you manage your employees you will no longer be a place where new college grads come to work for a year (if they can handle that) to gain experience then quit and hit the job market for a real career.

Pros

-Have many connections for job opportunities
-Offer health insurance benefits (but you have to pay for them)
-Generally good at making accommodations for you

Cons

-Only care about placing people and don't care much about your needs
-Will only put out your resume to one employer at a time so they won't look bad if you turn down the job
-No paid time off
-Very hard to contact recruiter
-Lie about what jobs they have open (they post them on the internet so I know they're holding out on me"

Advice to Senior Management

You need to care more about your contract employees because without them, you wouldn't have a job. Offer holiday time off (if the job they are placed in offers it).

Pros

AeroTek has treated me pretty fairly so far. I've worked for them for around six months now and have never had a problem with paychecks or benefits. Since I work through AeroTek for a larger company as a temp/contractor, the majority of my interaction with AeroTek has been administrative stuff, but it's always easy to get my managers on the phone or through email with questions or concerns.

Cons

AeroTek has not entirely matched the paid holiday schedule of the company I am contracted to, in other words, when the direct hire employees have a paid holiday (Thanksgiving and Black Friday), I just have to take the hit on my paycheck. AeroTek should be matching any paid holidays, but they have refused to do so in the past, despite the initial statement that certain holidays would be paid according to the client's schedule.

Advice to Senior Management

Take good care of the contractors on your payroll. A 25-cent raise would be nice after receiving good performance reviews from the client (the company I'm hired out to for work). A holiday bonus or at least paid holidays according to the client's schedule would make a lot of sense to me, too. Based on the nature of the contract I'm on, and the profit AeroTek is turning based on my presence on a large government contract, some additional cash is not out of the company's budget!

Pros

Aerotek has a great company culture. They are very concerned with their employees' well being and have lots of corporate programs in place to make sure that everyone is happy. They provide you the opportunity for advancement as long as you are willing to put the work in needed to succeed.

Cons

If you aren't motivated and ready to work you won't fit in with the progressive and motivated culture that Aerotek employees encompass.

Pros

Great culture, people, and overall environment. It feels good knowing that you are working for an established leader in the industry. Opportunities for growth are limitless and the challegning yet rewarding environment allows you to really grow and self-develop.

Cons

You have to be motivated by a performance-driven environment. At the end of the day if sales isn't for you, it may not be a good fit.

Pros

office outings are fun, you'll rarely get bored because most jobs are pretty different. If making money is your motivation you'll do fine. Lots of opportunity for lots of money to be made.

Cons

There is absolutely no work/life balance. You will work 60 hours a week without overtime and feel guilty for leaving before anyone else. Recruiters are seen as expendable and when someone leaves or gets fired it's like they were never there. Everything is sales and money focused. If you don't want to do sales and/or are not money driven this is not the place for you. The nature of the business requires people to be treated as a commodity.

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest during the interview and training process about what the hours and overtime will actually be. Don't let account managers intimidate people without repercussion. Make some sort of HR report possible for people who feel uncomfortable with the way they are treated.

Pros

The amount of growth one achieves is enormous because of the experience packed into each work week that cannot be equated anywhere else.

Cons

The hours were long and the compensation did not seem fair enough to keep me there. At times, management seemed lacking in terms of discipline.

Advice to Senior Management

I suggest working in more conjunction with other branches of Aerotek to coordinate projects better. The amount of people working at Aerotek may blind people from other branches of the building.

Pros

Very structured, plenty of resources and tools in place to make one sucessful without any previous recruiting knowledge or experience.

Cons

Lack of interest in you as a professional or as a partner within the organization, they are focused solely on what you bring to the table as a revenue producer.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on retaining your top produces, give them the respect, compensation and recognition they deserve

Pros

Flexible scheduling, great company culture, team environment, endless opportunities for growth, family friendly office, job security, autonomy, ability to work with little supervision

Cons

Benefits are terrible, 401K plan is weak, base salaries and compensation packages for salespeople are way below what other companies are paying in the area

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees. If they have something on their mind that is bothering them listen to them instead of brushing them off and taking their concerns with a grain of salt