Just another MLM recruiting scam that poses as a "high tech" marketing firm - Recruiter Aquent Employee Review

1.0
28 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

some coworkers are genuinely friendly

Cons

- Must meet quota and deliberately present jobs that don't exist to poor job seekers in high tech, marketing, and finance - Micromanagement - operates like an MLM scheme and you get commissions - terrible benefits - a lot of "sorority girl" types of recruiters that are difficult to deal with and borderline toxic - ostracized by people if you don't attend "professional" events or happy hour - only temporary low-wage contracting jobs are available to those who actually do work hard and have talent (this is unsafe, toxic, and highly unethical to people who have families to take care of)

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