SLT is poor, make terrible decisions and they are trigger happy when letting staff go. They make decisions with the 'fit in or f*ck off'mentality. They're ruthless. They have absolutely zero interest in you as a person or your career. Decisions on your path and career are made based on what they want, not what you do - you are a number and if you don't make them enough money, you will be a former number.
Expect an awful lot from their consultants in terms of KPIs and admin
Tight - we had to fund our own office Christmas and summer parties
Do not pay anywhere near market rates for salaries
Will sack you if you don't fit in or not doing as well as they want with little or no notice or warning. If you are under two years service, they just tell you to get out basically. HR have processes to follow but the management team don't do it.
They have a feedback system for staff, I put on there that I was unhappy and my manager's manager replied after 3 weeks and said 'is this sorted now? Let me know if not', tick box exercise basically, they don't actually care about you. They do it to give them insight into the billing teams and whether they have anything to be concerned about with regards to money coming in. But they dress it up as though they care about you - don't be fooled.
Regional directors are unable to push back to ops directors so they end up agreeing to unrealistic and stupid targets and budgets
I had two 1:1s in the past year, one I asked for and the other was in a beer garden on a Friday afternoon. But according to HR, I was well aware that they weren't happy with my performance and it needed improving. Well memo to HR, my manager told me absolutely nothing about my performance. And even better still, everyone in my team knows it's a lie that I was told in 1:1s because they know I never had them!
But by far, the worst thing about Randstad is that there was zero appreciation of what I did. I worked my bum off for them and gave everything I had working early, working late, I even worked on my laptop once whilst I was throwing up at home, just so I didn't let them down. So if my performance wasn't up to scratch, how about telling me that and supporting me to improve?Rather than just showing me the door because I was under two years service.
If you decide to take a much lower than market rate salary and join Randstad, be careful, at some point in the next two years you might have the rug pulled out from under your feet and then have your team told a pack of lies that you knew it was coming.
