First Advantage reviews

3.2

42% would recommend to a friend

(1,106 total reviews)

Scott Staples

69% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

First Advantage has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,106 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Advantage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Recursos humanos industry (3.8 stars).

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2.0
Mar 12, 2016

Poor management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The individuals performing the work are the superstars of this company. If given the right incentives and backed by strong company decisions FADV could have been a strong industry leader. There just are too many negatives to outweigh any positives.

Cons

Offshoring killed the reputation of the companies FADV acquired. Work fulfilled by offshore counterparts create rework for US staff, defeating any hope of picking up efficiencies. Instead of sending simple tasks offshore, risky and complex tasks are being completed by staff in India without the knowledge to perform the work consistently with little to no error. Offshoring can be done smartly- not here! What a mess- low employee morale, no real recognition, workload is unmanageable, quality of work is poor. AND technology! Technology sucks! They all interplay to make work miserable for employees. Knowledgable team members and management have either been let go or quit because of the stress created by offshoring or by cutting of expenses in critical areas. With a lack of staff, those left are doing more than double the usual work and have to answer to why they are not meeting goals/metrics. Isn't it obvious why?

2.0
Mar 10, 2016
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Pros

Vacation time, opportunity for overtime

Cons

Too many to list here, no helpful managerial oversight, customer service has tanked due to poor work being done overseas. Management overseas won't address errors with their staff nor will respond to emails from anyone lower than upper management so clients are seeing the same inexcusable mistakes made over and over again. I work for one multi-million dollar client who has a verbal agreement that none of their work will be sent overseas. Management has informed us that overseas people will be training on this account because that was only a verbal agreement, not one in writing so they feel they don't need to honor it. They have no clue how complicated the work for this client is and are willing to lose them by sending their work to India. If they don't pull back on the offshoring and clean house in management this company will be out of business in a year or two. They are trying to stave it off by cutting benefits in North America, by not giving out bonuses, and by putting off raises. They try to get supervisors to give artificially low performance review scores so they can prevent giving too many people a measly 3-4% raise. Do not even think of coming to work for this company if you value your career.

3.0
Mar 9, 2016

Good place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work culture. Two excellent Ops managers.

Cons

Need to pay your TL and AM's as per the market. Limited growth. Need to promote seasoned employees. Wrost HR&Admin departments.policies change at a drop of a hat.

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