Darwin Recruitment Reviews

4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(164 total reviews)
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Paul Kirby

91% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Darwin Recruitment has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 164 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Darwin Recruitment employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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2.0
2 Dec 2014

Seems a good place to work if you know what you what to expect.

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Pros

They want to invest in young talent and train them up to be experts in their field. The guy they have doing the training is excellent and is able to present the vast amount of information you need to absorb in a manner that is largely successful. The team seem very tight and had good working relationships with each other. Some good incentives to be a top performer. If you are good at sales and competitive you could thrive in this environment

Cons

Biggest gripe would be that when they tell you they do not "Hire and Fire" they aren't being strictly honest. They have a recruitment day nearly every other week which normally result in two or more hires. The official line is that they are fast growing, when in truth they usually loose a few early on, either through people not coming back one day or Darwin terminating contracts. Whilst I agree if you haven't got what it takes then Darwin can't be blamed, however the company present themselves as a nurturing place that allows you to grow and will coach you, which I never saw beyond the initial training session. Also there is not much "Consultancy" in the roles at Darwin. It is more often trying to sell a candidate you have never actually met to a hiring manager over the phone.

1.0
5 May 2023

DO NOT WORK HERE

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Pros

Nice break room , helped with buying lunches after Christmas, some good people there

Cons

Where do i start Team leader with no clue of how to lead or get the best out of someone let alone guide them to making the correct choices of the day to day things a recruiter does. was more interested in the young girl next to him and how to take her out. Texting whilst on a client teams call in front of the client. If you are not a friend to senior management you have less chance of succeeding , and very rarely spoken to see how you getting on . within 7 months i changed vertical 5 times so no chance to really give anything a good go . When i left it was a mutual agreement that it wasn't the right position for me due to the young culture and myself being an adult (which i completely agreed) 1 week later i received the letter of termination saying poor behaviour and attitude ( I only wished I had record the meeting of us agreeing mutually parting ways. overall a very bad experience at Darwin and to which i am now finding out they have a bad reputation within there industry

1.0
11 Jul 2020

Shameful

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Pros

The only good thing about Darwin is that they have some great people.

Cons

Darwin will sell a dream which most of it is lies. They may say they stick together but throughout this pandemic they did the complete opposite. They let go of people immediately (clearly states they are not financially stable). They then bring their staff back putting them on furlough to only let them go again cutting their furlough short instead of continuing this until the end of October to allow furloughed staff to find another job when everyone begins to re hire. In the office there had been regular updates but everyone else that was not working had no update or support. This demonstrate Darwin’s true colours. For anyone looking for a long term and stable company do not move to Darwin.

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