Inhumane, mismanaged, an absolute sinking ship --> if i could give zero i would
Pros
I am trauma-bonded for life with my colleagues and my direct managers. I learnt a lot, but mostly due to how badly we were treated.
Cons
It's hard to adequately explain the number of cons and failures in this business. Like most people, I read the bad reviews that litter the Glassdoor pages of Storm4, Storm2, Storm3, Storm6, and Levin Group. I knew it wasn’t going to be sunshine and rainbows, but hey, that’s recruitment. It’s long hours, high pressure, but high reward (ha!!). Despite what they tell you, the commission structure is poor compared to any other agency I’ve spoken to. And the base salary? An absolute joke, impossible to live on in any of the cities where this company is based. You will struggle to make ends meet, and combined with the destruction of your social life, you will find yourself lacking in all aspects. Their policy of not paying commission until a placement has passed probation is not standard; other companies handle this differently. Honestly, though, none of this compares to how they handled the closing of their European branches. But honestly, witnessing how they treat people, I really should not have been surprised. During my time there, I witnessed how they failed to treat their employees like humans. They hired naive graduates eager for jobs and then either fired them or pushed them out when they no longer needed them. Reckless hiring and inhumane firing are how this company operates. Both the Amsterdam and Hamburg offices were closed abruptly, and the owners who made these decisions didn’t even have the decency to do it themselves. Instead, the managers in these offices had to break the news to their employees: "It’s over—sorry, goodbye, good luck—severance? No, sorry." To those who remain in London and New York: we have not been looked after, we haven’t been given severance, and we are being ignored. It's important for you to know how the people at the top of this business view us --> disposable and entirely irrelevant.
