Pros
- Decent pay to start.
- Account manager is responsive, engaging, and a serious advocate for you and your contract.
- Gain access to Udemy Business to build more skills.
Kontras
- The benefits suck.
- High recruiter turnover with highly variable experience trying to work with them-- some are good, most are not.
- Once you are placed, you will be promised regular meetings and then never hear from the recruiter again.
- Trying to find a new contract if you are unhappy with your current placement is nearly impossible and I don't believe they are incentivized to help you move at all.
- You have to manually request a raise and depending on how you negotiated your contract, you may or may not have the ability to receive one.
- There is a cap to how much they will pay you for the contract so even if you work that position 4 years, once you hit that cap you are stuck.
I originally submitted my resume with TekSystems when I had finished my degree and never heard back. Many years later, I was approached on LinkedIn by a TekSystems recruiter for a position and he had no idea I was in the system previously. Working with him was good, and I did get the position. Then I never heard from him again and I've had 4 or 5 different recruiters whose names I could not tell you if I tried since then. There's supposed to be monthly calls, they never happen.