ZipRecruiter Reviews

Cons

- compensation has not always been fair/the best, but improvements are being made

Cons

Goals are high but achievable just a little stressful to hit at times.
Limited leads, though that seems to be changing.
Really tests your ability to upsell and manage time efficiently not how well you sell.

Cons

I won't speak for the entire organization because from what I can see, there isn't much to complain about company-wide. My observations are specifically pertaining tot he sales department in the Arizona office. I've been in sales all my adult life and the ZipRecruiter Sales department is by far the most stifling and least friendly departments to work. You've never experience micro-management like this before. The department recently had some massive changes to compensation, goals, product, pitches, marketing, and culture. Leaders here will beat your ear drums until they bleed about growth and making you a strong and marketable sales person, but the truth is that the environment is a churn-and-burn style with employees. When I began in 2016, turnover in sales was under 2%, now it's over 25%. Certainly, not everyone who's hired is cut out for gritty tele-sales but the numbers and my anecdotal experience will tell you that this place eats its young and moving up will be extremely hard, there was a point in time when it was extremely easy but the doors are closed. I wouldn't recommend a sales role here, every other department is amazing and will have an enjoyable atmosphere. Only take a sales role if you are a pitbull of a salesperson and are amazing at managing stress, this place will dump stress on you 100x what it needs to.

Cons

Product usually doesn’t work for clients. Many many complaints, downgrades, and cancellations. Traffic boosts are a huge upsell item and do not work for the customer in 90% of cases. Therefore, it is going to be tough to sustain this over time. Most clients say other competitors work much better for their needs. So if you are the type of person who will sell anything just to sell, without caring if it works, then it may be for you. If you have a conscience and don’t want to hurt small business owners by having them waste money, a different story

Cons

Product doesn’t seem to work for a majority of clients - many complaints, downgrades, and cancellations. Likely not sustainable over time. If you don’t mind and can sleep at night selling something to a small business that will likely be a big waste of their money, not bad. As with any company there are bad managers, but although company asks for manager feedback, they don’t implement the suggestions. Some managers can get away with things that would not be tolerated at other orgs.

Cons

Toxic work environment. They are focused on money and not people when it comes to their sales team. Micromanagement is taking away from time people could be working. There are people that work very little and as long as they are meeting their goal their behaviors are overlooked. Very inconsistent. Their policy is produce or be fired while having a very poor training team. The initial training was abysmal in preparing you for the position. Unlimited PTO for the sales team is pointless. If you were to take 2 weeks off you are still required to meet the goal for the entire month. I would rather have a set amount of time and have the goal prorated so that I could actually enjoy some time away from work without worry.

Cons

They don't match your 401k contributions until a year later forcing you to lose all compounded interest. Then on your every two week paydays, they don't submit your contributions to the 401K until 3-4 days after getting paid, which means they are collecting the interest you should be. The benefits are slowly being dwindled, such as flexible work schedule.

Constantly trying to change things and pit departments against each other for the same business opportunities. Increasing goals month after month, Implant the changes, then try to train everyone after the fact on the change. Lots of experimenting at employees expense. Has become extremely micro-managed to increase each individuals efforts. Lots of “busy work” that provide reports for middle management so they can be held accountable to upper management and show their stats which slows down productivity.

Training provided is usually a joke with one blow heart who likes the sound of his own voice. They keep trying to reinvent the wheel and fix things that aren’t broken to in increase their bottom dollar.

Advancement is based on who you know, not what you know, and they eliminate those that challenge the status quo.

Cons

By far the most unprofessional place I've ever worked for. Upper management is clueless, even some middle tier managers. Favoritism runs rampant. Office politics ruin the place. If you think differently than the "posse" that controls the office, you're blackedball. They will find a way to force you out. So many liars, thus creating a truly toxic culture. Stay far, far, far away!

Cons

- None that I can think of

Cons

- Aggressive goals in a highly competitive industry (not necessarily a bad thing)