Indeed reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(4,520 total reviews)
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Hisayuki Deko Idekoba

52% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Indeed has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,520 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Indeed employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jan 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Indeed feeds their employees well and their are generally good people who work there. You can look for a new job while your working because management wont be able to tell the difference

Cons

Sales for Indeed can be summarized in one word "Unstable". No one stays lasts for more then 8 months. This is due to a few reasons. 1. There are no leads for you to pursue and management has no plans on changing things up to make it easier for their salesman to generate leads. 2. You are highly micromanaged and must make unrealistic call quotas of 60 calls every day. If you hit 59 calls and leave for the day, you can bet that you will come in the next day and have a angry and threatening email waiting for you from your team lead. My threatening letter said " Don't you ever make less then 60 calls in one day or you will be busy finding a new job...I will make it my goal that your A** is out of here instantly". This was my second week and I was one of many who received this type of treatment. Also you are publicly criticized and humiliated in front of your sales team when you do no reach a goal or don't show up to the company happy hours due to family reasons. 3. Management treats hiring and firing like a checklist process, no emotion and no thought towards growing peoples careers. It is a very transnational process and the recruiters are kept busy to keep up with the horrible turnover. 4. It's pretty much like high school all over again. 5. The quotas for salesman are ridiculous. More then 60% of the sales force dont hit their goals and management can't understand why. 6. No one earns real money. The recruiters love to say you will earn 80k-120k your first year...don't believe it. Out of my training class of 10 or 9 there is only 1 left after a 8 month time frame. 7. Management favoritism equals the amount of leads you are given. if you are a great salesman but your manager doesn't like you are you don't go out with him to drink ect....they will give leads to the anyone else but you. 8. Management is clueless on how to fix the problems that exist. I asked a senior director himself on what they are planning on doing on fixing any issues. He starred at me for about 5 seconds and then shrugged his shoulders. They have no plans or ideas that are going to make a significant impact. If you have a family to support or are barely making your bills joining Indeed will only make things worse. I promise you. Disregard the reviews from client services or any tech positions, they are seriously skewing their Glassdoor score. if the other departments reviews were not taken into account they would probably have 1 or 2 stars on here. "Unstable"

2.0
Jan 20, 2014

Don't do it.

Recommend
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Pros

You'll learn a LOT. This is one place where you can see what people mean by "paying your dues". Great snack closet, nice happy hours, but...that's about as far as it goes.

Cons

Where to start? When first starting you might think you have reached the Mecca of Corporate. Everyone seems so relaxed and laid back, the culture is relatively young, and there seems to be a sprightly "start-up" mentality. Give it a month and it all goes downhill from there. Management is horrible. Basically, the people who are managers at Indeed are the people who were with the company the longest. A lot of these "managers' have no real management training whatsoever and get away with murder. Be prepared for your goals to be unrealistic and for leadership to play favorites when you struggle. Should you have a hard time meeting a goal you will be told to "work harder" and then left to make it on your own. If you think while reading this and other reviews that these must be coming from disgruntled employees who have just had a bad experience, I URGE YOU TO THINK AGAIN. The recruiters are lying to you, I promise. Yes, you can make a lot of money in sales in your first six months to a year. But what they don't tell you is that the average tenure of an Account Executive is 6-8 months. There are no leads and everyone is kicking themselves in the butt for taking this awful, awful job. They should make the recruiters work in the sales pit because they are the ones who are doing the real selling to get people in. In summation, the company IS great. It's making money and growing and still hiring in this economy; all pluses. But its lead by horribly egocentric managers who could care less about their employees and more about keeping up their corporate image than investing in their people. Don't believe what the recruiters (who are really just glorified sales people. Ask them about the quota they have to hit for hires in a given quarter) have to say about working here. If they call you, RUN.

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