Montreal Associates reviews

I will try to stay objective : - No strategy (subcontracting is the major part of the business, very few final clients, no repeat business, no clients shared between teams, no market vision, they are still alive due to their staff and a growing market before covid) - no support at all (but they spy on your phone calls (all registered), make you sing in public if you're late, checks your emails and stored document...) - wages are among the lowest in the UK market ( 20K, you can't barely afford a room in London with that ...) - due to the low salaries they use to employ people from any kind of background and to pressure them till they leave by themself. - the turnover of employee is crazy : 30% of the company every year (befor covid)… - They call themselves "Human" but have laid off a quarter of the employees after a week of covid lockdown. The HR department will say "but we will take them back afterwards" but the truth is that they fired them, then a HR posted on linkedin a week later "At Montreal we fired no one, we use technical unemployment (Furlough) to protect our teams" so fired people asked to be rehired on pain of suing them and the company had to took them back ... unbelievable right? - they also cut commissions and wages for all staff this year due to the pandemic before any consequences on business, so we are now working for nothing and have to live with the basic salary of bar tenders but without the tips... - At Montreal we can also not trust anyone, a lot of stab wounds in the back between colleagues, managers, even between offices, everyone talks behind everyone's back and to many drama queens make stories for nothing... - They say they are different, that you won't be beaten by the stats but in reality they only live by KPIs checked every week and they will beat you if you don't reach your stats! - They never communicate important information to the staff, everything is secret and you will discover it the day they make the change, sometimes it's more than hard to accept when it's directly link to business. - The commission system is done to leave you with very few money at the end so far under the market average. ( an oddly calculated margin + splits + errors every month over all your contracts or placements = in the end almost nothing left) - Internal procedures are combersome, support does a lot of mistakes and you have to deal with lots of complains from clients and consultants, /candidates all the time. - You won’t improve your English over there, they speak french 90% of the time. - I'm not talking about important business actions that take months to be adressed, red tape and recurring errors that polluate you on a daily basis, that teams do not share anything with each other, or that the business has a so low mark on Glassdoor that they asked all people still in the company to put a very good review to increase a 2,7 mark ! Frankly, run away before you get stuck in London with a company that will drop you sooner or later and use you as long as you bring money in pretending they care for you.

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