Randstad US reviews

- After the training in Florida, that's really it as far as training, aside from once-a-week calls from your trainers. You're left on your own to make it for yourself. - Previous point is hit home depending on which branch you work out of. If you're stuck at a badly managed and run branch with a cut-throat environment, you're effectively doomed to fail. - Randstad takeover has changed the company culture from entrepreneurial to sales slave pit. All about metrics, KPIs/numbers, work hard/not smart. You'll waste plenty of time with worthless clients and candidates and make tons of cold calls just so you can hit your daily and weekly numbers and look good. - In that sense, you have only 30-60 days to make a placement and bring in billings, or you're out. Even sooner if you're in temp. Even if your metrics are looking good. - Some branches have a cut throat environment. Hoarding and sandbagging is rife. - Not much opportunity for promotion, advancement, and raises. - Not much in the way of resources other than what they provide you. - Still one of those companies that tightly firewall and monitor Internet. Can't even load Gmail or Yahoo. - Corporate is out of touch with branches, industry, and market. - Huge, slow, bureaucracy. Things move very slowly from branches to the top and vice versa.

Internal employee turnover is extremely high in that particular branch, and the staffing industry is not well-respected. Additionally, generic job postings do exist, communication from management can be very poor, and there appears to be a "cookie cutter" operating model on the macro level that doesn't always allow branches to adapt appropriately to their market. There are some structural redundancies as well, and they tend to hire young people who share a similar "look," although this is understandable from a sales perspective.