CareerBuilder reviews

3.6

50% would recommend to a friend

(1,626 total reviews)
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Jeff Furman

71% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

CareerBuilder has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,626 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CareerBuilder employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Apr 14, 2018

Working for Cruella De Vil

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Pros

Irina is is an ambitious but inexperienced leader using CareerBuilder to establish herself as the tough and heartless new She-Wolf of Wall Street. The "transformation" she shoves down our throats in Town Halls, while mocking #MeToo in her Christian Louboutins, is a backfiring KoolAid water boarding technique and she's the one who's choking on it. Her and Anthony Dupree's shortsighted management styles make them blissfully ignorant of the basic rules of employee engagement: Miserable, bullied, overworked and underpaid employees = Poor customer satisfaction, sales and renewals. The recruiting team can't even find takers for the referral fee. If you’re applying for a job here on a referral, ask your "friend" for a share of the 1500 pieces of silver they just sold you out for. I've been watching our talent run and scream from the buildings for months and finally found my own escape route.

Cons

Turnover is over 100% in many departments and the spin is it helps us hit EBITDA targets. Employee Glassdoor reviews have been in free fall since Irina and Anthony, formerly of now-bankrupt Toys R Us, started using us as pawns in their own freakish version of Jumanji (Roll a 2 and our new retention strategy is to hold your 401k match until 12/31 every year; roll a 4 and your IT leader will humiliate you in front of a room of your peers and laugh as he tells your shrinking team that everyone is replaceable and people mean absolutely nothing to the company anymore). I'm not sure how HR sleeps at night when the combined cost of our COO's and IT leader's pretentious wardrobes far exceeds the value of the entire merit and bonus kiddie pools the rest of us all have to split this year.

1.0
Jun 26, 2018

Hey you reading this; I know these are fun but srsly it's time to quit.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Finding a new job feels really great when it happens - praised be! - There are bars close by - you will need them - be safe and take public transportation. - It’s fun to do nothing but proactively work to work elsewhere all day and get paid by CareerBuilder to do it. The irony is sweet. - Being miserable together isn’t all bad; I’ve seen some hilarious Instagram posts about depression and they'll help you laugh through the pain.

Cons

Oh CB - where do I even begin? You know what, I’ll start with the fact that I can’t even believe I’m wasting more time talking about this sad, dying, has-been, stupid, valueless, unimportant once great company literally packed with pathetic men and women who continuously pretend every day like everything is fine; worse so, they act like things are great - not a joke. They say things are “changing” and “shifting” and that they’re being “disruptive.” Do they actually believe this? I can’t. Alas, people need to know the truth. The only thing being disrupted at CareerBuilder are the employees. Irina, aka real deserving sharpshooter, is the COO. Girl, who gave you a megaphone to march around the office with? When I heard that was the latest sitch' happening, I was almost surprised. In what world is that an appropriate thing to do? That is so remarkably embarrassing and degrading and you owe your employees an apology. Also, who told you to wear a power suit and Christian Louboutins to work every day - was that you? lol I bet it was. No, do you girl - it makes everyone think you’re super cool and fashionable - so much taste. But honestly, who do you think you are? People on Glassdoor reading this - the COO literally stumbled around the office shouting demands through a megaphone whilst also sounding off a siren. Yes, that happened… in 2018. Ever since she came to CareerBuilder things have plummeted into an unidentifiable darkness. Newsflash - to every leader at CareerBuilder; everything is not okay. You know it - your employees know it, your competitors know it. Also, your customers can read so they know it now too. Your publicly despicable and womanizing sales leaders should be fired for the sexual misconduct they’ve been accused of. You know the ones. They should have been fired years ago when all the sexual harassment was actually happening. I have girlfriends that have felt this sexual misconduct themselves and were too afraid to ever say anything in fear they’d be fired or worse, that nothing would come of it - how embarrassing. Finally, you have an opportunity to do the right thing - you should do it. I, along with many other men and women and families will be heartbroken if you do nothing. Matt Ferguson, do the right thing.

1.0
Jul 5, 2018
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Pros

There's air conditioning. My team turned into family. PTO is still good (for now). Being business-minded I understand the fun stuff needed to be cut, but I never expected this cluster (beep).

Cons

Top of the ongoing list: Anthony Dupree (He reads these and probably wrote some positive reviews himself). He is the CIO (even though he didn't know what that position was as a young boy, and still doesn't) and is a huge reason for the low morale in the office. He literally walks around to see what's on everyone's monitors to make sure we're working. He implemented this new concept called "Utilization" for Support; this means we literally have to track the amount of time we spend on every interaction with each client to make sure our time is being spent appropriately. According to his standards you should be tracking/logging 50 minutes out of every hour towards your tickets, yet that's not how multitasking works so it's a made up metric. Also, I'm an adult. In a Support meeting with the directors, Anthony hijacked the meeting unannounced to tell us how horrible we're doing and literally addressed the room by calling us his "lowest employees". Don't be fooled like I was and think "I'm not high up enough to be a C-level's concern". WRONG. I've never met anyone in my life as degrading as this bloke. I truly wonder how it feels to be the most hated person in the office. Anyway, literally every single person I consult with is looking for a job. I don't see this company standing ground for very long. C-levels continue to boast about all of the money we've saved and EBITA, but let's consider how many salaries you don't have to pay to employees who left voluntarily and involuntarily, thank you captain obvious. This is a trickle effect that will eventually hit our clients hard, if it hasn't already. We recently lost one of our top paying clients and more will follow I'm sure. Also, our HR department is dwindling, that's a really bad sign. There's less people to represent us. Do yourself a favor and keep looking.

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