Workopolis Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Workopolis full-time for more than a year

Pros – I am very happy with my job.

Cons – Volume of work is sometime challenging.

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Workopolis full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Decent people, a couple of good leaders.work life balance as a rep is great. A handful of accounts and plenty of time!

Cons – Leadership has their head in the sand. They think by applying high pressure to the reps that they will improve things. It wont. We were selling outdated products vs Linkedin and Indeed and getting killed. Leadership thinks they are innovating when its usually a weak attempt at catch up. Moral is poor.

Advice to Senior Management – You need to reinvent who you are. Workopolis as a job board is dead.

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

Former Employee – worked at Workopolis full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Great office space (ping pong, video game room, bright, casual)
-Good base salary
-Good benefit package
-Fun place

Cons – -Penciled sales quotas that are bounce around with no explanation
-Poorly organized CRM (unbalanced portfolios)
-Poor mentorship (all promise no delivery)
-Failure to adapt and change to the market needs (fails to recognize linkedin as a competitor - get with it!)
-Ignores the input of employees and clients (fake "yes's)
-Every year the company evaluates how much business they have lost. The senior management response is to have a secretive Mass layoff (30 people in Nov 2012) to save face with the board.
-Owned by Torstar (sinking ship)
-Pointless poorly run meetings with minimal follow through
-Pretend that you can move up in the company (continuously hires from outside the company)

Advice to Senior Management – -You encourage feedback and penalize your employees when they do bring ideas forward.
-You should stop pretending to be so busy and try to make your employees better.
-Check your attitudes at the door - what makes you a hotshot?

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

Former Employee – worked at Workopolis full-time for more than a year

Pros – - No waiting period for vacations.
- 2 Personal days for the year.
- Great King West Location

Cons – - They are laying off people left right. The company is struggling on all frontiers in Canada facing tough competition from LinkedIn and other job boards.
- Managers are OCDs, poker faced, will say something and will turn out something else in reviews.

Advice to Senior Management – Do something before you become the 2nd RIM in Canada.

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

Current Employee – been working at Workopolis full-time for more than a year

Pros – amazing colleagues, good pay structure, fun place to work.

Cons – the industry is changing rapidly...

Advice to Senior Management – continue to invest in product development.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Workopolis full-time

Pros – Great company culture and management is open to new ideas on how to compete with the competitors.

Cons – There was not any opportunity to move up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Workopolis as an intern for less than a year

Pros – - the people
- the culture
- amazing spirit
- great location
- good compensation
- intern-friendly

Cons – - company lacks growth opportunities
- needs more interns!

Advice to Senior Management – fire a ton of managers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Workopolis full-time for more than a year

Pros – Parties, Enviroment, Bean Bag Chairs, Ping Pong

Cons – Smaller company so there are favorites.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't pick out golden children and only promote them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Workopolis

Pros – - Has a name that is recognized in Canada
- Some really great people work there
- Great King West location
- Still retains some remnants of an excellent corporate culture

Cons – - One of the best things about the "old" Workopolis was the culture we worked really hard to maintain. Very much a .com-style with lots of focus on employees, creativity and fun. With management changes in the last year, that culture has disappeared and the company has gotten much more bureaucratic, corporate and company-focused (as opposed to employee focused).
- An inability to stop the bleeding caused by success of social media recruiting has caused a flavour of the day approach to management that has many employees searching for a job somewhere else, and we have lost a lot of really talented people as a result.
- We have seen a LOT of those "Harry is no longer with the company" notices (i.e. he got fired) in the last several months, which has everyone diving under their desks when HR or management walks by. Who gets the axe next???

Advice to Senior Management – - Figure out how to win against social media or else find a niche where social media can't compete (no, your current plan does NOT do that).
- Make an effort to keep the people that have a history with the company. You lose part of the company's soul every time you let one of them leave.
- Stop hiring "my way or the highway" managers. You are chasing away the talent you have left with that type of approach.
- Stick with the people you have for awhile. Everyone is afraid for their job right now and you just keep making it worse every time you fire another one. Let things settle.

Former Employee – worked at Workopolis

Pros – Great benefits-many perks
Great location
Nice people! Very nice people
*Many follow up ( see cons)

Cons – Workload
Managers' closed door policy ( cruel- bipolarish)
No new ideas, innovation, do NOT voice your opinion
Manager's lack of experience
*Follow ups to tell you that everything you did was WRONG
PAY OVER TIME
Cult-like environment
Absolutely NO positive feedback
Benefits: when it's too good to be true, it IS too good to be true
No respect for employees- you should thank us for hiring you attitude
Employees don't have a say.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the employees more
They should treat employees with respect.
Stop setting them up for failure
Walk the walk and talk the talk
Be more professional
Train managers (HR) before they are allowed to manage people
Acknowledge that you are not the "perfect" company that you wish you could be
Train managers not to share other employees personal information with others!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend