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      3.7

      65% would recommend to a friend

      (810 total reviews)
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      Timo Lehne

      76% approve of CEO

      52% positive business outlook

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      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Senior management

      SThree has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 810 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SThree employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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      810 reviews
      2.0
      Oct 31, 2014

      Terrible Management, Total Boys Club

      Consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Uncapped commission structure, with pretty decent payouts if you can stack your sales. -Great incentives. -Young, energetic co-workers. -Decent formal training (though the real way to learn is to emulate top billers). -We are moving to a beautiful new office. -The SThree brands are becoming more and more recognizable in the US. -This job will teach you to be disciplined and punctual, and if you pay attention, you will learn a great sales skill set.

      Cons

      -Upper management is completely disconnected from their employees; maybe now that we have had some turnover they will realize how unhappy the majority of us are. -They claim that career advancement is completely meritocratic, but several managers have been promoted based on inflated (read: FALSE) numbers. We know you didn't hit your targets, so we don't respect your authority. -Total boys club. It can be incredibly frustrating/intimidating/humiliating to be a woman on the desk. Oh, and don't think we aren't scratching our heads over the fact that there are as many women as men at this company and there are still an absurdly low proportion of female managers/directors. (As a side note, and overwhelming majority of the people who recently left were women.) -Management will endeavor to learn as much as they can about you, your professional aspirations, and your personal life and use it to manipulate you. They will figure out your paint points and harp on them until you produce or crack. With very few exceptions, these people are NOT your friends, although they do an awesome job of making you believe otherwise. -Sales is absolutely a numbers game, but the emphasis on KPI's can be wildly excessive at times. Hint: It also gives away the fact that you don't actually care about us as people, only as revenue producers. -The atmosphere has become increasingly unprofessional. If you come in drunk from last nights party, it's not a problem as long as you were out with coworkers (this includes managers). -I don't know where to begin with the CEO. Maybe I'll just say that the unprofessional atmosphere, especially as it pertains to women, probably filters down from him.

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      SThree Response
      11y
      Many thanks for your feedback and I'm sorry to hear that your experience at SThree wasn't entirely positive. I know that our management team cares passionately about the welfare and success of our employees and I have escalated this feedback to them. If you feel that you witnessed unprofessional behaviour during your tenure, please contact me (a.chown@sthree.com) so that we can investigate and address the specific instances. I hope that you participated in our employee survey and focus groups that followed. We are consistently striving to be the best employer and to help our people to be happy and successful. We are now in the process of implementing many of the suggestions and comments that came from that employee feedback and we will repeat the process annually. We wish you all the best in the future. Please feel free to get in touch with any additional comments or to speak with us directly. Best regards, Andy Chown
      1.0
      Mar 14, 2017

      New Grads: Great Starting Point for Career Suicide

      Recruiter
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Training: Incredible and strong follow through via Rookie Training Comradery: Forced mentorship in buddy program Location: Downtown Chicago in the loop Benefits: Vacation time

      Cons

      Bold Face Lies AKA Salary and Commission: Take what they told you you'd be making in commission and divide it by for a more realistic number i.e. $35k base + $45k-$55k in commission+ $42k-$45k annum Work/Life Balance: LOL 100 point plan: Career suicide if you're just starting out, you get scraps of commission for your first 7 or 10 deals, and the commission scheme is appalling if you're a recruiter. "Merit" Based Promotions: To get promoted to senior consultant, you must bill $600k, which is roughly 50 $25,000 fee deals. You may also get promoted in the event that they need someone to take over due to high turnover, or if you sleep with the right people. Management: One good apple out of a bag of rotten ones doesn't make it a good buy. If you have any sense in researching a company's glassdoor page before or whilst interviewing with them, you have enough sense to not work for Sthree Chicago.

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      SThree Response
      9y
      Thank you for your feedback. We're happy that you found the training programs to be useful as it is an area we have invested a lot into. We're sorry your experience in other areas weren't as great. We are looking into these claims as we take this seriously and don't want this to be an experience which is repeated for other employees. We are currently doing a significant amount of work to understand the employee experience across all of our offices to ensure we can be an employer of choice.
      2.0
      Mar 29, 2019

      Do Your Research

      Consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Decent culture, especially among younger employees -There is an opportunity to make a large amount of money here, if you stick with it -Flex hours -Beautiful office -Training is very well done

      Cons

      -Obsessed with KPIs - if you’re looking for a quality > quantity place, this is not it. The funny thing is that I was actually warned about that going in but was told by my manager that that wasn’t the case anymore. Definitely still is that environment -Turn over - it’s a bit of a revolving door, even for a sales company -Management - my team was ran by people who knew how to bill, but had no idea how to manage people. Lots of yelling, constant restructuring, favoritism, and some of the worst conflict resolution I’ve ever seen. Virtually no positives, other then the fact that they knew how to make money -Commission structure and incentives are ok, but there are definitely better ones out there -There’s no cross collaboration between perm/contract/brands - mostly just fighting over client and candidate ownership, at a disgusting level -Tech is outdated - computers crash constantly, the phones are from the early 2000s, consider yourself lucky if you get a working a headset

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      SThree Response
      7y
      Thanks for taking the time to leave your comments which will help us make positive changes to our business. At SThree, we're currently in the process of refining many of our global processes. One of the biggest things we're currently focusing on is our leadership programme. Our learning and development team are taking a close look at the leadership programmes we have in place, to see how we can make improvements to offer an excellent people experience across our global business. Feedback like this really does help us to grow as a business and continue to look at ways we can improve the way SThree operates.
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