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Montreal Associates

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Terribly disappointed - Recruiter Montreal Associates Employee Review

2.0
Sep 24, 2020
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Pros

diverse environment and good training

Cons

Poor salaries, appalling management. Were absolutely so unprepared for any kind of crisis that they had to cut salaries and reduce commissions drastically. The structure has changed several times since Covid started as they seem incapable of working out a system. Claimed the competition was doing the same, but too bad for them, we know it's not true. Pride themselves to be a human business all about their people but will treat you like a pawn or a commodity. Will change the organization overnight and let people learn that they're moving teams during a meeting with all staff involved. Terminated loads of people in March 2020 only to bring them back under the furlough scheme, claiming they didn't have enough info from government when other employers were already using it. No strategy, poor internal recruitment because not willing to pay for good recruits. Will promote people to management only because they're good billers however poor their management skills are. Encourage a toxic culture where everybody hangs out together all the time to make people emotionally and socially dependent on the business.

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Montreal Associates Response
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Thanks for your review. The past six months have been hard for many, many businesses and I doubt there were many that were able to predict Covid-19's coming nor the depth of the impact it would have. I know we made decisions quickly at the start of the crisis, some of which meant having to change direction once we had more information, but the decisions taken were done so with the best interests of our people and the business in mind. You're still a member of the team: I'd welcome the opportunity to get more feedback from you, if you're comfortable doing so. Matt

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