You will be miserable. - Staffing Consultant Randstad Employee Review

1.0
Mar 12, 2016
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Pros

I honestly can't really think of much. Except you get to help people find jobs and the base pay isn't bad, but when you factor in all the work and stress they need to pay their employees more.

Cons

Management was horrible. They left me in a branch alone. They give warnings while you are in training. Absolutely no probationary period. Turnover is bad. They tend to forget different cities have different market trends. Too many time wasting conference calls and webinars. They are obsessed with role playing. The training is 6 months long and it's all long tests and webinars. Micromanagement even though they didn't have a manager in my location. They set you up for failure. They knew who they were hiring, people with little to no staffing experience yet they don't have a manager regularly on site to help. They overkill on sales. Lots of prospective clients decided to not use Randstad due to the amount of emails and phone calls they were receiving. Management makes fun of people that come in and apply. I've heard everything from that person is dumb or that person is stupid and the list goes on and on. Little respect of people or where they might come from. Overall terrible corporate structure. I felt like a number.

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Loved my team. My Manager was incredibly supportive, understand, and always rooting for myself as well as my teammate's success. Remote work was highly flexible and accommodating.

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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