Pros
- Remote work - Unlimited PTO - Lax meetings
Cons
Where do I begin? Let's start with the companies' "attainable" OTE. When hired, I asked what the lowest performer and highest performers hit/made. I was told that the lowest salary at CODE RED was $100k. When I joined, there was a recruiter who had not made a hire and had been with the company for 6 months. (No way that recruiter makes six figures with a 50k-60k base and their comp structure for commission.) There are still current recruiters who have been with the company for 6+ months and have only made 1 or 2 hires (one has been there 9 months and hasn't made a hire until just recently.) Next, we should talk about how this company is a dog-eat-dog kind of environment. If you do not have a client, you submit your candidates to your teammate's accounts. Now if your candidate gets hired to your co-worker's account, they get less of a payout in their commission. This makes for a toxic environment as pushback on your candidates is the norm. There is no training provided here - besides a third-party consultant. This actually was helpful in some aspects, but as for day-to-day on the role itself specifically from what the CODE RED team is looking for there was none. CODE RED allows its clients to provide specific requirements (insert -isms here) that make for already difficult searches even more difficult. Also, the clients they have on are not attractive in this current market (crypto, in-person roles etc..) so you will not have a good time trying to fill these. If you want a toxic environment - sign right up. The upper management openly talked badly about previous employees in front of current and new hires. This made for an awkward environment. There are clear favorites here, and if you don't sip the kool-aide you will quickly be pushed out like many before. When hired I was told that attrition was not a thing, and once joined I found countless employees who previously had been at the company - who either removed CODE RED from their employment all together on their LinkedIn or had been there less than a year (a pattern here I now recognize.) Which checks out.