Worst workplace I have ever worked in - Perth - Recruitment Consultant Randstad Employee Review

1.0
Oct 3, 2017
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Pros

Colleges - I worked with some fantastic people Good Global or Australian employment opportunities Reasonable pay at entry level CEO is a legend

Cons

- People are worked into the ground - Disgusting lack of integrity in management. - Managers are "Do what I say not what I do" - Not inspiring or what I would consider a competent manager. - They had a lot to say about what NOT to do but didn't actually provide any coaching that was specific to my role. - When new people came on board they would come to me for coaching not the manager because managers are too busy being "higher" than everyone else. - Refusal to honour verbal agreements including pay rises. - Did not encourage autonomy or trust their employees to do their job - Micro management must be a pre-requisite for managers. - You were expected to be a robot - I was not allowed to spend too long on calls as it was reducing my KPI's. It's quantity not quality which results in a huge lack of customer care.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 27, 2026
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Pros

Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Cons

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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