TEKsystems
High stress with high return
Technical Recruiter (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 6 February 2018
Days start with early morning meetings where teams mull over their targeted business plans and share ideas on how to drive business forward.
After meeting, you sit at your desk and start calling consultants to identify their skills, goals, and interests in order to help sell roles to them.
After meeting, you sit at your desk and start calling consultants to identify their skills, goals, and interests in order to help sell roles to them.
Pros
Great networking, and free lunches
Cons
long hours and high ROI expectations
Professional environment
Agile Project Manager (Current Employee) – Montréal, QC – 21 January 2018
A good consulting company with very supportive and collaborative culture. promotes work-life balance in the development centers (mind you the staffing side could be very different. I have no experience there)
Pros
team bldg, training, and supportive
Cons
consulting dry projects
Say good bye to your personal life
Technical Recruiter (Former Employee) – AB – 13 December 2017
No work life balance, terrible management. They take people who are decent in sales and put them into director level positions, with little to no training on personnel management or leadership and expect them to positively impact your career. Most people who have been with the company for more than 2 yrs are so indoctrinated they expect you to give up all other aspirations for your life and career and just live the Tek Model. The company is designed to take people fresh out of school who have no life experience and shape them into thoughtless sales people so the company can make more money. no outside the box thinking, high pressure sales tactics to under cut consultants, and when they use you up they will spit you out and hire the next generation
Good place to learn
Lead Software Developer (Current Employee) – Montréal, QC – 15 October 2017
Disclaimer: I work in the Montreal office.
The Montreal office is a development shop, as opposed to the rest of TEKsystems where the company is rather a recruitment firm.
Typical day at work:
One agile team per project (Project Manager, Business Analyst, Architect, Team Lead, Developers & QAs)
What to learn:
* The very knowledgeable lead architect is always striving to better ourselves by spending an hour per week on discussing many technical topics.
* Formations are given to learn about the different phases of an Agile project (inception, sizing, story writing, etc.)
Workplace culture:
People are helping each other out, as much as they can - which is awesome!
All in all, a very good company to work for (again, specific to the Montreal office), however....
The downside: the salary increase does not compete enough with what the market has to offer, and thus TEKsystems has a hard time keeping the good players in.
The Montreal office is a development shop, as opposed to the rest of TEKsystems where the company is rather a recruitment firm.
Typical day at work:
One agile team per project (Project Manager, Business Analyst, Architect, Team Lead, Developers & QAs)
What to learn:
* The very knowledgeable lead architect is always striving to better ourselves by spending an hour per week on discussing many technical topics.
* Formations are given to learn about the different phases of an Agile project (inception, sizing, story writing, etc.)
Workplace culture:
People are helping each other out, as much as they can - which is awesome!
All in all, a very good company to work for (again, specific to the Montreal office), however....
The downside: the salary increase does not compete enough with what the market has to offer, and thus TEKsystems has a hard time keeping the good players in.
Pros
great learning experience
Cons
yearly salary increase are mediocres
Part time work as IT support
IT Support (Former Employee) – Waterloo, ON – 29 June 2017
Great place to part time work. I never had full time with TEKsystems but they were amazing services and a great place to work.
Typical day was arrive early, get let in by security and get escorted to the place we needed to be working
Lead by a team lead and we were showed exactly how they wanted the work done.
Typical day was arrive early, get let in by security and get escorted to the place we needed to be working
Lead by a team lead and we were showed exactly how they wanted the work done.
its cool
Welder/Fabricator Alum (Former Employee) – Aldergrove, BC – 31 May 2017
Fabricating from blueprints, building gensets for oil rigs
Welding Fluxcore, hardwire short circuit all positions thin gauge metal to thick plate
Worked in several man crews, as a team to finish massive projects on time
Cleaned up metal, sweeped floor, organized yard
Prepped metal for painters, minor painting
learned this all there
Welding Fluxcore, hardwire short circuit all positions thin gauge metal to thick plate
Worked in several man crews, as a team to finish massive projects on time
Cleaned up metal, sweeped floor, organized yard
Prepped metal for painters, minor painting
learned this all there
Great company to work and very professional support
Technical Support Specialist (Former Employee) – Calgary, AB – 31 January 2017
I really enjoyed working for Teksystems as they were able to bring the best out of me and I always wanted to give 100% effort.
Pros
Great pay
Cons
none
Great Organization, Poor Leadership
Technical Recruiter (Former Employee) – Burnaby, BC – 24 January 2017
teksystems was a great company however the leadership while i was present was less than inspiring. It makes me wonder if I would have actually enjoyed recruiting at some point.
Travailler comme travailleur autonome.
Programmeur sénior/Analyste (Former Employee) – Montréal, QC – 16 January 2017
Le management est très proche de ses employés.
Très bonne entreprise ou on ne sent pas juste un numéro.
Très bonne entreprise ou on ne sent pas juste un numéro.
Pros
Très bonne entreprise ou on ne sent pas juste un numéro
TEKsystems
Account Manager (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 16 October 2016
TEKsystems is a great place for an entry level aspiring sales professional. Great training, accountability and rewards. They do not believe much in work/life balance or better yet integration making it a difficult place to remain as you acquire other priorities come up in life
Awesome company to work for ......
Project Manager (Current Employee) – Montréal, QC – 20 September 2016
Very good job work/ life balance with a very good job culture. Management is very supportive and overall job security is good. It's a great commutative multi-cultural environment with very good and highly trained technical people from QA's, Ba's, Architects to senior developers in .Net and Java.
Fast paced environment with a diverse culture
Business Operations Associate (Current Employee) – Mississauga, ON – 13 April 2016
- Advanced my technical skills in all Microsoft Office Suites
- Majority of the role deals with Accounts Receivable and collection
- Co-workers are easy to get along with
- Majority of the role deals with Accounts Receivable and collection
- Co-workers are easy to get along with
Pros
Great employees
Cons
Stressful
Focused on attracting, sourcing and selecting top IT professionals for organizations on a daily basis
Account Manager (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 19 November 2015
Excellent environment to learn the core drivers to successful hiring and management for organization. Success is always defined by client success
Get ready for LONG HOURS
recruiter (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 11 November 2015
Very little guidance, quick turnover, low pay and long hours. If you are not the first to show up and the last to leave, get ready for the comments and criticism to come flooding in.
Sales environment that turns quite political, if you are not drinking the kool-aid then expect to be seen/treated like an outsider. Can be a great opportunity to grow a network and learn the in's out out's of sales.
Management is unorganized yet expects unrealistic expectations from you.
Sales environment that turns quite political, if you are not drinking the kool-aid then expect to be seen/treated like an outsider. Can be a great opportunity to grow a network and learn the in's out out's of sales.
Management is unorganized yet expects unrealistic expectations from you.
very political and tense environment
Technical Recruiter- Healthcare Services (Current Employee) – Vancouver, BC – 8 October 2015
TEKsystems has a lot of potential but lacks in a few places. the environment is extremely political and not the most collaborative place to work.
Pros
decent benefits
Cons
work life balance
Terrible place
Software Engineer (Former Employee) – Burnaby – 26 July 2015
I Joined Tek as part of their EA recruitment, they basically wasted my time.
Paying me was such a tough issue to solve, benefits were a joke compared to similar roles elsewhere
After my contract was ended it took me two days to find a better paying job without their help.
Paying me was such a tough issue to solve, benefits were a joke compared to similar roles elsewhere
After my contract was ended it took me two days to find a better paying job without their help.