TEKsystems — Local services in San Francisco

Absolutely abysmal recruiting company. They will solicit your time, and then refuse to give you the time of day.

A recruiter from Teksystems randomly contacted me about a potential contract role with a major tech company. I stress here that she reached out to me, and that I had not submitted an application to or contacted Teksystems in any way. I responded, and we arranged a phone call.

She missed that call. When I followed up, she responded that she had gotten mixed up with the time zones and daylight savings change. While I felt a grown American adult should have adjusted to U.S. time changes by now, she sounded young, so I gave her a pass. We arranged another call, and she called on time for that. She then shared my info with a senior recruiter named Paul Maxson.

This gentleman missed our scheduled call, as well. After I followed up via e-mail, he called an hour after the original time. And again, the excuse was time zone confusion. We're in the same country, not oceans apart. In 10 years of working overseas, I had countless business calls with people in many different countries. Not once did anyone miss a call because of a time zone mixup.

Paul asked me to revise my resume according to our phone discussion. I put a great deal of effort into this because I knew the client had very specific expectations, so it took a good amount of time. I sent the revised resume to Paul a few days later. And I never heard back from him, despite two follow-up e-mails, not even a one-liner acknowledging that he had received it.

If you solicit someone's time, then waste their time with amateurish "time zone" errors, and then refuse to respond when they've made the effort to submit a resume, you need to evaluate your competence. Sadly, this recruiter and his company will probably regard my review as the disgruntled ramblings of someone who didn't get a contract. I would not have written this review if Mr. Maxson had taken 10 seconds to type one reply. Being "busy" is no excuse. Everyone is busy.

Treat candidates like human beings who should be given the professional courtesy of a simple response. Don't wait for them to become so disgusted with your unprofessionalism that they write a terrible review. By then, it's too late to apologize or "discuss" how you...

I had the worst job search experience with this company. One of the recruiters, Brianna Alatorre, contacted me after I responded to the email that she sent to our language department about a translation job at Workday. After 3 rounds of interview and a test that took days to finish (so much so that she completed the test herself and made me look very bad in front of the hiring manager), she ghosted me. She wasted weeks of my time and disappeared in spite of my text and voice massage. I also think it's ironic that I had some feedback about other candidates' performances, but did not get any feedback about mine. This example of poor etiquette and lack of work ethics can only bring bad reputation to TEKsystems. I hope the other recruiters are not as inexcusably rude, unprofessional, unkind, too coward to announce a rejection, and disrespectful. I know that this is unfortunately a common practice within the industry. And, it seems like TEKsystems is no exception to that thanks to recruiters like...

Terrible experience, and a waste of time. A recruiter from this company reached out to me for a web role at Uber, and wanted me to complete two coding multiple-choice (?) assignments before sending anything to them. These were pretty time consuming and focused on syntax and language specific trick questions that most companies would not bother with.

I completed them anyway, and never heard back, even after I sent a reminder and was told I would...