Pros
I spent to much time with my co-workers, I was able to meet some amazing people and make great friends that I am still close with. But at Addison, we bonded over being stressed/micro-managed/put down by management and were constantly on edge - I think that's called a "trauma bond."
Kontras
I came in as a Recruiter with some experience, working for a subsidiary that Addison had bought and were turning into their Seattle hub. Take these other reviews seriously - this culture is so so toxic. You are nothing but a number - the company I was with that got bought out had a different structure than Addison - We did all our own Sourcing, Recruiting, Account Management and Onboarding - while Addison had Sourcers, Recruiters, Account Managers and onboarding staff, but we were expected to be at the same amount of spread ($$$ you are billing weekly/annually with clients) as Addison, though we were essentially doing 4 jobs vs. their Recruiters who had 1 mission. My lead and I made the case for hiring a BDM and Sourcer to we could concentrate on recruiting - and it took over 1 year for Addison to give us the support we needed. We were 2 people doing the work of at least 6+ others - working everyday until 7-8pm, answering emails on weekends, eating lunches at our desks - it was miserable. All the while, we would have executives come a few times a quarter and they would reprimand us for not being able to "grow" the business - when we were so short-staffed we were barely maintaining our current numbers, which were actually on par with offices of a similar size who had 2x the staff. The execs that came into town would come to happy hour and make sex jokes, drink too much and say racist/sexist/homophobic comments they thought were "funny." One of our execs brought a potential hire to happy hour (post final interview) and the exec got drunk, hit on her and made her uncomfortable so she declined the offer the next day and let our leadership know what happened. A friend of mine in another office brought up issues with HR - sexist/racist comments by management, and inappropriate content in the Marketing Newsletter (cultural appropriation) and HR basically told her it wasn't a big deal, not to get offended and when they set a call up with her to discuss these issues - they snuck the executive that she had concerns about onto this phone call and didn't tell her - then turned the call over to him where he told her she was overreacting and needed to learn how to take a joke and grow a tougher skin. Overall this place doesn't care about their employees in general - if you are a top producer and making the company a ton of $$$, you are loved. They tend to hire fraternity and sorority folks who look and act very similar and create the toxic "bro" culture. Turnover is high at this company (within several other offices as well) - if you are still ramping up in the role and struggling - if you can't learn the way they teach, they will cut you loose. "Turn and burn" culture, with little support and resources. Staffing in general is basically a glorified pyramid scheme, and this company is the proof.
