Pretends to care - Senior IT Position TEKsystems Employee Review

2.0
27 Dec 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Various recruiter types are pretty good about keeping in touch. You're not completely invisible like with other contracting companies. Quick response from the payroll department for anything timesheet-related. They have summer and Christmas parties. Account people will come around and hand out swag or Starbucks etc gift cards. They will occasionally take you out to lunch - nice, but realistically it's mostly to kiss up to the client. Overall they're above average as far as contracting/recruiting companies when it comes to contact.

Cons

Their negotiating tactics are pathetic. Don't believe anything said on the phone - get it in writing. The account managers are well-trained to sound sincere when they ask "Is there anything you need?", but if you ask for something specific there is never any followup. They are excellent at glad-handing and pretending to care. Frankly, it gets to the point where one prefers a company that clearly doesn't care over one that constantly pretends to. Biggest beef - there was a large layoff; employees who had vacation benefits were told they had to use vacation prior to layoff date, which was a violation of state labor law (acrued vacation = wages already earned). Some employees who didn't know any better fell for it. Tek got paid regular hours by the client and then didn't have to pay out the vacation separately. This hurt many employees financially on top of being laid off, and was probably the sleaziest move I've ever seen from a contracting company. This kind of tactic deserved a poor rating.

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
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Pros

Teksystems have top rated clients in their radar and the recruiters are always ready to listen and try to give solution if there are any roadblocks as they render a comfortable platform to discuss anything regarding the contract.

Cons

pay range quoted is OK (medium ballpark) but unable to negotiate

3.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

- Decent pay to start. - Account manager is responsive, engaging, and a serious advocate for you and your contract. - Gain access to Udemy Business to build more skills.

Cons

- The benefits suck. - High recruiter turnover with highly variable experience trying to work with them-- some are good, most are not. - Once you are placed, you will be promised regular meetings and then never hear from the recruiter again. - Trying to find a new contract if you are unhappy with your current placement is nearly impossible and I don't believe they are incentivized to help you move at all. - You have to manually request a raise and depending on how you negotiated your contract, you may or may not have the ability to receive one. - There is a cap to how much they will pay you for the contract so even if you work that position 4 years, once you hit that cap you are stuck. I originally submitted my resume with TekSystems when I had finished my degree and never heard back. Many years later, I was approached on LinkedIn by a TekSystems recruiter for a position and he had no idea I was in the system previously. Working with him was good, and I did get the position. Then I never heard from him again and I've had 4 or 5 different recruiters whose names I could not tell you if I tried since then. There's supposed to be monthly calls, they never happen.

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