Addison Group Reviews

If you are a woman, a POC, or simply a human with decency who is looking for a great career and a healthy work environment, this place IS NOT FOR YOU. Hoping this review might save someone from ever working here. Never experienced such a horrific work environment in my entire life. This is a racist, cliquey, immature, hostile work environment. Anyone with an ounce of morale will either speak up or quit. As soon as you speak up about the corrupt environment, you are gossiped about and no longer supported. Highly unprofessional - and that’s not in a “fun” or “cool company culture” type of way. It’s highly unprofessional in an uncomfortable, degrading type of way. Heard employees make fun of multiple new hires right from the get go. Managers will also only hire “attractive” predominately white, recent college grads for recruiters (assuming the binge drinking is a great selling point for that niche) And those who have already been there for years are brainwashed into thinking a refrigerator full of alcohol is “company culture” and ok to consume at 1pm on a Monday. Multiple rounds of shots at happy hour (could be 6 shots per person) are charged on the company card yet managers belittle their recruiters for not meeting their numbers... TOXIC. Favoritism left and right. Managers gossip more than their own employees do, so they just encourage that type of high school, childlike environment. Higher ups will claim the high turnover rate is simply part of the recruiting industry - when truthfully their management style is garbage, resulting in employees crying everyday in private, hating their life, or moving on to a more ethical recruiting firm with better pay. As soon as I got hired here, recruiters and BDMs were quitting left and right. Most of them warned me of the horrors of this place and my regret is not leaving earlier on. When I saw the married, middle aged male in my office inappropriately touching and grinding on the dance floor with a recent college grad recruiter at a work event, I knew this place was trash.

I could go on for days. Hands down the most horrifying thing I witnessed was the rampant discrimination and racism. Every single person on my team was white and when we had jobs open, management and BDMs would tell us "the client is looking for PLUs (stands for 'people like us', meaning white Americans)" or would say "this manager is going to hire a 'John' or a 'Matthew', not a 'Vivesh'". The amount of racism and discrimination I witnessed there was extremely disturbing, from discriminating against candidates based on their name, accent, national origin, and age, to sending a mass email to employees asking us not to speak on the racial and civil rights issues prevalent in this country until the CEO made his stance clear (he remained silent for about 2 weeks and expected all employees to do the same). The management here is also the worst I've ever personally experienced. Constantly belittling the staff, hounding on numbers, etc., not to mention your manager is your direct competition and often don't really care to invest their time and energy into the success of their team. I worked in two offices and had a similar experience with both, it seems like it's just the culture of the company. Whether you're a contractor looking to work with a recruiter here or are a recruiter looking for an agency, from the bottom of my heart, look elsewhere.