Horrible Agency to work for! - Anonymous employee Randstad Employee Review

1.0
2 Oct 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The place you go to if you don't have time to look for a job and need someone else to do it for you.

Cons

The Oakville staff will call you if your skills "fit what their clients want" even if it's not what you're looking for, just so they can make their commission. They won't communicate otherwise. If you had a question, they wouldn't reply to your email unless you are a candidacy to their client. Horrible customer service and clearly do not care about anything except their pockets.

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5.0
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Pros

Loved my team. My Manager was incredibly supportive, understand, and always rooting for myself as well as my teammate's success. Remote work was highly flexible and accommodating.

Cons

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1.0
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Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Cons

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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