Aerotek Reviews

Pros

I am currently working at my first assignment for Aerotek, and have been pleasantly surprised by my experience. Having spent several years dealing with other contract/temp agencies where the contract staff is treated like garbage, I was amazed at being treated like I'm worth my weight in gold by my Aerotek recruiters. Within a week of meeting with them, they had me out on interviews, and within two weeks I had an assignment making more than I did at my last perm job. It has been a really pleasant, stress-free experience. They did all the legwork, got me some great opportunities, and all I had to do was land the positions. That's what a temp agency is supposed to do. Too bad most don't!

Cons

The benefits are garbage, but that's pretty typical for temp companies. If you want good benefits you pretty much need a perm position. The communication regarding holiday hour changes between my assignment, my recruiters, and me was bad. If other employees hadn't told me about upcoming office closures, I'd have showed up to a locked building. (My managers and recruiters never reached out.)

Advice to Senior Management

None.

Pros

The atmosphere is great. You have the freedom to establish your own system for recruiting and managing contractors. Also the hands off management approach allows individual account managers and recruiters the freedom to establish their own team strategy within their division.

Cons

It can be really difficult to grow if you recruit under a division comprised of industries who have a a limited need to hire. Advancement opportunitiies are limited to becoming an account manager or continuing to develop as a recruiter.

Pros

Generally contractors are able to get a variety and differing length of challenging assignments at a top pay rate. Some of these positions can even lead to permanent work.

Cons

Like most contracting agencies, Aerotek is at the mercy of their paying clients so if you don't mesh in a certain environment and someone complains, they may be reluctant to assign you again.

Advice to Senior Management

Since most of contracting companies are the same, Aerotek should try to stand out to continuing to offer outstanding employee benefits and perks.

Pros

Aerotek has some of the best benefits when compared to other contract houses. For an entry level employee, you earn up to 80 hours of vacation in the year with 4 personal celebration days.

Cons

Aerotek is very stingy when it comes to your salary and raises. My manager from the company I was working for said I was going to get a raise. Aerotek refused to reclassify me for that raise because I had been working there for less than a year and in the end took too long and my raise had been cancelled due to budgetary constraints.

Advice to Senior Management

When an employee is given a raise by your customer, reclassify that employee right away to ensure that the get the raise that the deserve.

Pros

Flex hours. Helpfull people. Good benefits for temp. Paid weekly.

Cons

Temp, contract to hire. Change w-4s faster when you chane yours.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work.

Pros

-Great culture and team environment
-Back office resources, administration, and support are top notch but underpaid
-Commission is structured so you can work as hard as you want to earn more or give yourself a "raise"
-360 Feedback and sharing of information is welcomed and accepted
-A lot of personal and professional development via on the job training and empowerment of employees
-Opportunity to be your own business owner
-Accountability to keep you focused on your goals
-A balanced market share with enough to be credible but still a lot of growth opportunities and potential
-Unlimited resources and communication from all levels of the organization
-Professional team members that know when to work hard, but also know when to relax and have some fun at the same time
-Very numbers and goal oriented company. You know where you stand at all times

Cons

-Upward mobility or promotability stops after you hit a certain level
-There is a huge lack of training once you are promoted to a certain level
-There are a lot of people who have "seniority" who get away with things that are counter-cultural but it's overlooked because they've been with the company a long time
-Some of management is solely focused on the highest producers which are not always the best example of professionals for our company, other management realizes that numbers are not everything
-Stock in the company is not offered to high producers who are under 10 years in the company and not at the director level
-Very few females at the director level and none in upper management
-Sales management tool is outdated and no longer effective
-No option to work from home limits your work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management

-Develop the training for employees 3+ years into the company
-Develop leadership and management training
-Develop a stock program for high producers 5+ years into the company
-Develop a lead management tool for prospecting new business
-Develop a partial work from home option for high producers

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

-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

-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!