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Matt Ferguson
1 person found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for less than a year
Pros – 1) Immense Growth
2) Employee Friendly
3) Challenging Work
4) Travel opportunities
5) Learning Opportunities
Cons – its too good to believe
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2012-09-26 02:49 PDT
Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – A great Company with wonderful people and culture
Cons – Need to make more noise in the market about how good we are...
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2012-07-19 21:30 PDT
Former Employee – worked at CareerBuilder
Pros – Let me first make this clear that CareerBuilder is the only product of it's kind in the industry.
- What ever I've learned so far in my career of 4-5 years is completely due to these guys.
- During these times, I worked with two direct teams; experience has been phenomenal with the technology wizards.
- No tech teams in this industry has got the tech experts as careerBuilder has.
- Excellent architecture.
- Openness in the culture.,Excellent guys to work with.
- The kind of technical depth Norcross office people have is exceptional.
- Belief in lean philosophy; this has impressed me the most.
- has a great vision, and strives constantly to move towards that.
I'll always cherish all those days I've worked with you guys. Hats off to you guys.
Cons – This applies to Offshoring team only -
- Why doesn't the CareerBuilder has a direct say in the appraisals done at Bangalore office?
- There was no way till I was there; to identify performers from non-performers; everybody got the same hike every year. I also saw a lot of favoritism being involved in the India teams managers.
I don't see any cons with careerbuilder.com. Instead I would say that I would love it to be back with CaeerBuilder; but not at this moment. I want you guys to be more smarter in handling and involving yourself more at deeper levels with offshoring teams.
Advice to Senior Management – well, this isn't merely an advice, it's something that would benefit you guys for a long term ; if you can open development centers in France and China; how's the deal with a similar office in India. You should've done this atleast an year back.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2011-12-30 01:46 PST
Former Employee – worked at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – -Quarter Bonuses
-Company Performance Rewarded Trips
-Frequent Travel
-Excellent people
-Room for advancement and growth
-Health benefits are low costing
-work from home program
Cons – -Management can be over demanding and unrealistic with day to day duties including roles.
-Below average
-At sometimes ,management can overlook hardworking engineers and mis-score quarterly reviews
Advice to Senior Management – Listen to Engineers feedback post Reorg to see if it was the best move. Recognize key performers, reward them, compensate them and keep them happy.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-19 15:42 PDT
Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time
Pros – Laid Back working environment, not super busy
Cons – Started as a contractor...was for 9 months before promoted to full-time...suffered pay decrease
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-15 12:21 PDT
1 person found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – Some of the smartest, most passionate, energized people you will ever work with. The company values are for real. If you aren't prepared to live by them then you should probably find another place to work because you won't be happy here. Management is transparent, politics are minimal, it is all about performance.
Cons – It is a very competitive atmosphere. If you are in sales and you are not cut out for that field you will figure it out more quickly here than in other sales organizations.
Advice to Senior Management – Stay frosty. LinkedIn is nipping at our heels and we need to continue to evolve!
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-30 12:38 PDT
Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – A great learning enviroment, management that actually care and share in your career growth strategies, outstanding benefits and perks.
Cons – No cons. You get what you put into it.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-08 13:50 PDT
Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for less than a year
Pros – Amazing place to work if you are interested in what you are doing. Great, takented leadershsip who appreciate hard work and effort.
Cons – Very difficult quotas and i am not sure if they are attainable past the 12-24 month mark. Very focused on dials and talk time rather than the results of the dials you do make. Accounts are very badly managed and clients have a bad taste in their mouths about how many reps they go through during a 12 month period.
Advice to Senior Management – Keep your tenured reps longer and listen to their gripes
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-06 06:24 PDT
Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than a year
Pros – I love the great bunch of people that I work with.
Cons – The culture has shifted and people aren't as happy as they once were. Part of it would most certainly be the change in compensation, the other being the increased demands/product quotas.
Advice to Senior Management – Take notice to the culture shift and go back to the previous compensation packages.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-07 16:21 PDT
Current Employee – been working at CareerBuilder full-time for more than a year
Pros – This position gives you access to other opportunities within the company and can be a good platform to build from.
There is also a lot of training available so you can grow your professional skills and abilities as much as you'd like.
The healthcare benefits are great. They also offer a wellness benefit that CB will reimburse the employee $400 annually to spend on something fitness related.
There are team outings and happy hours and employee parties to help build teamwork and morale as well. However, this is more of a small distraction from your day-to-day duties more than anything.
Cons – The amount of responsibility and workload you are expected to have for the money is not worth it. You are consistently given new and different metrics that you are measured by. A decent portion of your bonus is tied to the sales survey given to the sales reps you support. If a sales rep decides to give you a bad score for whatever reason your small bonus will suffer substantially.
There is also a lot of favoritism present as well so be prepared for that. If you want to play the game and jump through hoops then this might be a good opportunity for you. However, the amount of extra responsibilities they want you to take on to get a promotion is generally not worth it. Even when promoted to Senior CSS you will still be making around 40k with bonuses. In order to make a decent livable wage you will need to be promoted several times within this department. I would suggest using your experience at CB to find better money for similar work elsewhere within the first year or two.
If you are looking to get into sales this could be a good fit for you if you are willing to relocate. However, if you want to stay in the Atlanta area there is a lot of red tape before being able to get promoted into sales.
Advice to Senior Management – I would recommend management hire directly out of college to take advantage of their eagerness and lack of a need for much income to get by. This would be a good opportunity for a recent college grad for their first year or two out of school. I would also recommend management have a more realistic approach to managing their team. This is a great place to learn how to function in a corporate environment but when all is said and done the role is more administrative and task oriented than about the bigger picture.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-16 09:02 PDT
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