SmartRecruiters Reviews

Pros

Working at Smartrecruiters is good as it has a good team environment and flexible timing

Cons

So far haven't encountered any cons

Pros

flexibility of getting rostered shifts

Cons

Rostering an unnecessary amount of cheap crew members wasting labour that creates greater issues in terms of productivity.

Pros

I joined SmartRecruiters as it was a fast growing exciting start-up with people focused culture. The CEO (Jerome) communicated a vision that I could get behind - help people get hired and help companies find quality hires. The product is quite good - one of best TA Suites on the market. Marketplace partners are plentiful and client value is solid. Benefits are decent - unlimited PTO and many holidays.

Cons

only 9 mos after I joined, this is now a different company. Interim "CEO" (CFO) has finance background and finance focus. New vision is now - go public and show financials. To get financials to look great, company can grow rapidly (which it's doing) and cut costs... which is what's being done now. In last 3 mos, 100 people laid off. That's 20% of the company. You can't cut headcount 20% and pretend to be employee or people focused culture. You also can't cut 20% and see no impact on operations. Products are good.. but bugs take forever to resolve and company became very compartmentalized and bureaucratic.

Pros

Opportunity to earn Product competitiveness EMEA culture Earnings/commission plan Work/life flexibility High quality team

Cons

Changing strategy Layoffs / cost-cutting in 2022 (did them earlier than most)

Pros

-Great people work at this company -Amazing product -Great leadership in place moving forward -I wish I could have been around longer to see the new plan unfold moving forward

Cons

-Current team is paying the debts of past visions and leadership -Harsh opinions are not fair to the current state of the company -Lots of shifts in company direction -Annual planning took too long to unfold this year

Pros

- Nice and helpful colleagues (but not the management) - Good product (but for mid-market, not enterprise) - Remote work (but inadequate onboarding process makes it difficult to integrate the company)

Cons

- Lack of leadership and communication - No respect for work-life balance, they expect you to be connected 24/7 to Slack and reply to messages instantly also in the evenings, if you don't you, you fall behind quickly as everything in this company gets communicated through Slack only, - Cold and cruel management team, who only cares about the profits, so people get burnt out and disengaged very fast and there is a huge turnover, - Lots of talk about the values, working #asone, and being a hiring success company, but in one day a decision is made to lay off 10-15% of the staff and people are expected to leave the same day they found out (no link to their performance or seniority), even though a few days before during town hall the CEO said everything was going great, - Sales are the king, so if you work for any other function you are considered less relevant. Run away from SmartRecruiters as fast as you can and don't belive 5-star reviews, no one I know, who works there would give one.

Pros

This is a company where individuals care about your success and want to make an impact in the world. The product is constantly evolving (in a good way). It's great to be a leader in the market and work with people who seriously want to win and have healthy competitive spirit. The company has made some leadership and org changes recently, which a lot of companies are doing today. I appreciate the transparency the leadership team has shown throughout the process and has only strengthened my commitment to the company even more.

Cons

Constant change!! The company is moving fast and could improve with internal training and enablement on the product.

Pros

Clear goals, great management, two wellness weeks per year, fully remote

Cons

Growing pains around systems and processes

Pros

supportive culture, gratitude a key

Cons

many moving parts and lots of different priorities

Pros

- Flexibility to work from home or office (if close) or wework - Product generally works and regularly updated with weekly delights - Office closure twice a year - Some nice people still left in the company but sadly ratios are reducing over time

Cons

- Uninspiring interim CEO that does not have what it takes to run the business and does not bring anything to the business other than tracking to financial numbers - Incompetent C-level and sales leadership that either lack the necessary experience, intellect or just don't care enough (especially about employees) to do anything close to a good job - Chasing dreams and telling lies internally (townhalls are really a joke) and externally to customers, is standard practice here - The worst handled lay off process that lacked thinking about employees at all and how to treat them with any care - You should expect inappropriate slack messages, discrimination, disengaged fellow employees who do not respond back, blaming culture, bullying, and no support - Understaffed and wrongly staffed but nothing done to change it, adapt strategy, improve processes, anything that might solve the long standing burnout culture of good people