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Reviewed March 9, 2021
My experience with Indeed is not positive. Since the site uses a grading system on applicants, I feel that it is not a fair system at all. First, you receive a message from Indeed saying that your qualifications match a particular job, then you review the company's job summary and decide to apply. You have an exceptional Resume, Cover Letter and supporting documents and still receive responses that you are not qualified. That is not unusual but, to apply to numerous jobs and continue to receive the same message is unusual and draws a red flag.
How does one really know if the application ever reached the employer in the first place and the response that you receive is not from a live person but, to find out it is an automated response. I would suggest job seekers looking into other alternatives for applying for employment. There are many out there like networking, which is probably the most sufficient one. Indeed is just not one of them, which is very unfortunate when you see it being advised on social media and television of what a wonderful tool for seeking employment. I really don't think so.

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Reviewed March 8, 2021
So, this be a real review about my record music company getting attacked illegally on Indeed. They take your money, and let players and haters post anything defamation about you, untrue, be slander, libel, threatening to me, my people, my company and all illegal and Indeed take your money for your job postings and LAUGH IN YOUR FACE, be enjoyable to them to say,"Oh no, we ain’t responsible for content," it’s in the guidelines even though it be racist, hate they won’t be taking it down. I’m SCARED and nothing you can do, nothing no lawyer can do, he talked to them and they enjoy hiding. All the people in the review team be laughing and enjoying that you crying and they are promoting hate. Man, it’s Covid nobody working and people be reading falsehoods and scared all cause Indeed want to take your business down.
Find you a good platform for posting those jobs no review site. Why the reviews there anyway if they want to take your money to get you people? Be working AGAINST YOU to let mean hateful stuff and laughing enjoying your misery. I’m writing to everyone to the president, please please please people be writing to the attorney general in Texas to stop this terrorism and harassment of businesses. Thank you and hopefully the good Lord will bless this company to find the motivation to discern the TRUTH because that what people deserve. Especially when you got proof nobody at indeed even care. God Bless this country and Jesus turned the other cheek and PRAYED for his enemy.??? Amen.

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Reviewed March 7, 2021
I have used Indeed usually for a few months each year for about 8 years to post hiring ads. I've always loved indeed until now. I'm in need of another site and will not use indeed any longer if I find something. I use to be able to get about 30-40 clicks on a posting with 5-10 applications for $50-100. Now I get 10 clicks and maybe 1-2 applications for $400!!!!
Last fall when this happened for the first time I was in shoock. Within a couple days my budget was out at $400 and not one application. I called and swore this must be glitched. They did credit me back $200 with my complaint which is great but couldn't really tell me what's so different. Tried to run an ad this week 4 days in 3 application and about 25 clicks I hit $400.. surprise surprise. I think one ad had NO applications and 8 clicks for $200. I feel very ripped off and can't trust indeed.

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Reviewed March 4, 2021
I applied for 2 jobs that were posted in Indeed. I was hired for both and provided my social security number and my bank account information for what I thought was for direct deposit information of my paycheck. Both jobs were work from home jobs. For 1 of those companies, I've already been working with them for 3 weeks and didn't notice anything peculiar about it. The other one that said they hired me hasn't responded after many attempts of checking what my next step would be in the onboarding process. So I Googled the company to check if there was a phone number that I can call the company.
The first link that popped up when I Googled the company was a link to scamdetectors.com. When I read the information of the company, I immediately contacted Better Business Bureau (BBB) and they confirmed with me this company is a scam as they have received multiple reports about the company and cannot confirm its legitimacy. Because the current company I was working for was in similar job description/industry, I checked that company as well with BBB and they also confirmed it might be a scam because the industry that the company was listed under is completely different and has no connection to what I am doing and what I applied for. I can no longer find those companies in Indeed and the job postings have now been deleted.
I had to change my bank account number and that process in its own is difficult as I have multiple accounts that needed to be transferred to a new bank number. I also reported these companies to the FBI. I am upset, hurt, and heart broken because I was relying on the salary that I was supposed to receive after 1 month worth of work. I was counting on that paycheck to help pay the bills and help my family especially during this pandemic where everyone is just trying to find an honest job to be able to provide for their family.
Indeed is not even deserving of a 1 star. You should be able to give zero stars. You would think that a company like Indeed who advertises across the nation of their service, would vet the legitimacy of the companies that post in their site and protect people from being scammed or be part of a scam. What's worse is that I was involved in a criminal activity not of my own choice and helped these scammers screw other people without me knowing it. God! That hurts the most because it's hard to get that out of my conscience. I'm one that believes in karma and I would never wish to do ill will unto other people and I feel Indeed just cheated me out of being innocent in harming anyone. With everything happening in our world today, I never wanted to be part of harming anyone in any way possible. Indeed has broken more than my trust from this experience.

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Reviewed Feb. 28, 2021
These are my opinions from my experience: Please do not waste your time looking for a job on indeed. They are a robo-scam. They post jobs they steal from other sites. They post jobs without any company information. They send you robo-emails with a fake name attached to make you think they are treating you individually. They send you dozens of jobs unrelated to the job you need. They send you fake emails from companies you have applied to with a fake first name, no last name, no title, and no contact information, which in my opinion, should be illegal as a false representation of that company. Indeed is a huge time waster. They play upon your emotions as a person who needs a job. Shameful.

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Reviewed Feb. 25, 2021
I have applied for job after job for over a year and I have never heard back from an employer. I have begun reaching out directly to the employer, only to find that the posting on Indeed is either outdated, or there is no position available. I have talked to a few employers that say they don't advertise with indeed, yet, I clearly see the position on Indeed's website.
On several occasions I have received an email from Indeed claiming the employer has asked that I take an Indeed Assessment only to find out after calling the employer directly, because I never received any responses, that they don't review indeed skill assessments. To date I have taking 6 assessments and have gotten "Expert" on many of them. Assessments are time consuming and can take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. Yet I have not received a single response. Even more curious, I have applied for more the 30 jobs over the last 8 months and only 4 show up in my history.
The only contracts I seem to get are constant emails from India based headhunters and staffing companies that, while my resume is now private, are clearly not looking at my preferences. Each of them state they found my information on Indeed. Several were offering positions pay as little at $20.00 hourly for positions such as a senior analyst, Python developer, then claim that the client needs immediate hires. When I contact the employer (when the agent is willing to disclose it), the employer says they've never heard of the agency.

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Reviewed Feb. 25, 2021
UPDATE 03/11/2021 After I posted this review, Indeed sent me a private message to “assist” me. Though I can’t seem to share it verbatim here, I was essentially told that it’s possible that my review did not conform to their guidelines, and a link to those guidelines was included, along with a note that they are unable to discuss individual reviews. Since not only were the guidelines themselves part of the issue but the fact that I had a new employee giving a new reason to reject my review each time I edited and resubmitted it, here was my response to them:
“Sorry, but this is the same vague deflection that I've heard three times already from the three different members of your company who themselves didn't hesitate to discuss why my review shouldn't be shared. My review didn't contain any info that was "unlawful, fraudulent, discriminatory, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, or obscene" (granted, I suppose you can just blanket-reject anything using the vague "or otherwise objectionable" part), and it certainly didn't contain "allegations of illegal activity." Nonetheless, the very first reason for the rejection that I was given-- that my review contained "references to OTHER companies," when the only company mentioned was the one that I was trying to review (since it's a review?)-- contradicted your own guidelines. Not only that, there's no passage like that in either the Company Review Policies OR the Terms Of Service that you're all so quick to mention (and if you're referring to this little extra set of rules-- then perhaps you should consider combining them with either of those others...).
All it would've taken is for ONE employee to point out each portion of my review that was considered problematic, in ONE email, rather than have different employees still pointing out new issues two months after I'd first tried posting it. After all that time-wasting back and forth, one frankly can't help but to question your employees' efficiency, and-- considering that your business IS paid by other companies to post their job vacancies-- your integrity and culpability overall. You can't have it both ways by taking money from these companies to post their job vacancies, then pretend that you're not protecting your own interests when you end up putting such effort into censoring the opinions/reactions of the employees who've filled those vacancies.
Ditch the all-encompassing guidelines-- and the ridiculous 97-page Terms Of Services that accompany them-- or just consider retiring the review section of the site altogether, because you can't pretend to care about what employees/reviewers have to say if you're going to make them jump through dozens of censorial hoops and still hope to produce an honest, informative evaluation of somewhere they've worked (at this point, it feels like I should start charging you guys for all the time I've spent having to edit my review for your approval since the otherwise simple process has become a job unto itself...).
This is why movie studios put a disclaimer on DVD/Bluray releases that "the comments and opinions expressed in this film do not reflect the views of X studio." I understand that you may feel the need to protect yourself from potential legal retaliation for sharing reviews of companies that may paint them in a negative light, but perhaps the kind of companies that'd be so defensive as to retaliate against such reviews are EXACTLY the kind of places that need/deserve to have their dirty laundry aired. Seriously, hire better lawyers (I sure hope that whichever one spent all those hours drafting that 97-page atrocity was cheap, otherwise, they likely had a good laugh at your expense...).
In the meantime, my assessment of you stands, if only so that any/all other employees/reviewers you've silenced will know that they're not alone. Good day, and an unresolved goodbye.”
Original review 2/25/21:As a job seeker, I can say that yes, I was able to use Indeed to find, apply for, and even land a staff job with benefits. That was great! (and that’s why I’m rating them 2-stars instead of 1). Yet when that company suddenly laid me off weeks later over a misunderstanding on a mere training assignment with zero warning, zero benefit of the doubt, zero opportunity to change things moving forward (when I’d been praised for my work only days before), with no severance right before my benefits were supposed to kick in, as you can imagine, that was NOT so great. And when I in turn tried to post a review of this company on Indeed expressing my disappointment only to have Indeed repeatedly censor and keep coming up with new reasons not to publish my review, that was grating to say the least.
What were some of those reasons, you ask? First, it was because they claimed I’d made “references to other companies,” when the only company I’d referenced was the name of the one I was reviewing (and one would expect if you were reviewing, say, a restaurant or movie, it’d be understandable if you’d include the name of the film, dish, etc for context). No big deal, I substituted their name for “this company” and resubmitted. Next, it was rejected because they felt that one of my sentences was “considered as too strong,” due to how I likened the disillusioning experience of getting into a relationship with someone, only to later discover they were toxic/abusive. OK, so I checked a thesaurus, found some alternative words, and resubmitted.
By this point, I'd noticed— and eventually pointed out to Indeed— that the company I was trying to review, despite being a fairly large one with offices across the world, a company that I'd seen repeatedly posting openings on their site and were likely A) expanding or B) had a high turnover rate (which from my experience seemed to be the case) they oddly only had the same handful of largely positive reviews listed on their site, with one negative one (and the review I was trying to post wasn’t even as harsh as that one). I’d also noticed that the company in question seemed to have a lot more negative reviews posted on other sites. Well, Indeed said they’d “escalate” things and get back to me.
When they finally did, weeks later, they then said my review “mentioned very detailed situations and shared some details about the company that are not in the public knowledge of that company,” and both would be reasons for rejection. Well… again, it’s a review. And it certainly didn't specify anyone’s title/name, nor list company clients/projects, or provide specific dates/quotes (which would all understandably be confidential info). But it IS a review, so details/examples are important: if I’d mentioned, say, how a manager would email you an unnecessary/passive aggressive reminder of when an online meeting started if you’d logged in early to test your internet connection/audio as an example of them being micromanaging, then that’s relevant (and not exactly privileged confidential information).
At this point, I’d already posted my review elsewhere, because it’d become apparent what was going on: Indeed was clearly blocking ANY new reviews-- positive or negative— as an added bonus to my former employer for their business. They'd just keep making up new rules for what they found acceptable, keep moving the goal post. Now, were they obligated to post my review? Probably not, but they also didn’t need to string me along and waste my time (and based on some of the negative reviews I’ve read from employers who’ve used them, it would seem that there are better ways that they could be spending their own time than to put such scrutiny into one review).
Still, as long as my former employer had a job vacancy that they were paying Indeed to post— even if it was the same opening over and over again— Indeed could keep making money off them, and keep enabling them by rejecting, silencing, and/or gaslighting any honest reviews or reviewers that could make other job applicants hesitant to apply. After all, there’s no money to be made from a worker who stays employed, but from the applicants who keep applying for that position. It’s a complicit cycle, likely a conflict of interest too— and who knows, perhaps someday, some new hire will similarly apply to and be terminated from a company like this, fall into financial hardship or depression, and end up harming themselves— but they seem OK perpetuating it as long as it keeps their own lights on.

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Reviewed Feb. 20, 2021
I am a job seeker snd applied for a few jobs on Indeed. I never heard from and of the jobs I applied for even though I was overqualified for the jobs I applied to. I decided to call the office if a job I applied to for Medical Insurance Billing. The receptionist said they did not post a job opening on indeed and that a scammer used their company name to steal people’s personal information by having them apply to the fake job post. She said she reported it to Indeed who took the ad down, but the scammers put the ad back up again. Indeed.com obviously doesn’t confirm if the jobs are legitimate or not and lets anyone post fake jobs. Ever since that time I have been getting scammer and telemarketer calls from all over the world because of indeed.com. I wonder if the other jobs so applied for, but got no response from and employer were also fake.

Hi Amy, we take the security of our job seekers very seriously, we have an extensive moderation process in place that is designed to protect our job seekers and employers and ensure a high level of quality in our search results. We are always working to remove content of this nature from Indeed. We have reached out to you by private message to gather more details so we can ensure this is investigated. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us here!
Reviewed Feb. 13, 2021
From my experience, and the reviews of job seekers and job posters, Indeed is not dealing honestly with either job seekers or job posters. Indeed promises jobs to seekers, but they post and repost and repost jobs that are stale and probably not available, so you waste your time with resumes and cover letters. Those who post jobs are being overcharged because Indeed does no qualifying of seekers so many seekers click who have no intention of applying. Indeed posts a little blurb of a job where you can click to see more, and I bet that when you click to see more the job poster is charged.
Indeed also does not always post the name of the employer so you can't research the employer, as you should to be a good applicant. Also, Indeed is not following the law in my state, Colorado, because Colorado has a law that requires all job postings to have a salary range and benefits posted, and Indeed does not always include these things. When I complained to Indeed, they said they are not responsible for what the employers post, (a cheap cop out) and that they get many of their postings from other sites, which is dishonest, so I don't recommend Indeed.

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Reviewed Feb. 9, 2021
I really like Indeed but some companies that advertise want you to take an assessment test and none of the browsers support these tests. Waste of time. And when you message the company as I did you get a response of "Best regards". Whatever that means.

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Reviewed Feb. 8, 2021
Indeed system does not work properly, our account was blocked for more than one month. We lost one month of research and nobody knew about it. Still today they don't know why, we were sending mails to people not knowing if was never SEND even if it was highlighted by their green logo send, after 2 weeks they still don't know why our account was blocked, more than one month of job paid of with; you should create a new account and restart again, they do even have decency of giving us compensation (we spend 1000$ more cause we wouldn't get any feedback by candidates), but the truth is all the people we taught were contacted they never received our mail, and they say they compensated us by refunding 1000$, what about one month of losing our time and all the new candidates lost or still waiting and our clients dissatisfaction or still waiting to receive a job offer!
They know that we have to spend 1000$ to recontact with candidates. We complained, ask them to send by mass mailing all the contact that we lost and they can not even do that, so bottom of line we must restart our research and one by one send mail or forget about one month of job and restart again, shame on Indeed, They charge 1$ per CV and do not have the decency of helping us for their own mistake, So if you see SEND you have NO GUARANTY that is been done, that your candidate has been contacted, it's a fraud this system, really shame on Indeed.

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Reviewed Jan. 19, 2021
I’ve been posting jobs on Indeed for the last 10 years. To be completely honest up until now has been completely fine. A new company of ours post was taken down by Indeed followed by a generic response. While I understand Indeed is trying to do its best to keep down fraud they should have a better method to verify accounts. The business is mine and they are telling me they can’t verify the business. I’m able to get funding from a federal bank with the documents I’ve sent but I’m unable to post a job. We’ve literally sent them IRS forms at this point and somehow that isn’t satisfactory. I’m removing all my companies from this platform!

Hi Eric, we are very sorry to hear about this experience. To explain, it is normal that all accounts will be reviewed as we must verify the connection between the account creator and the company they are hiring for. We must also ensure that our quality guidelines are met. We would be happy to take a look at your account to see how we can help here. If you're interested, please send us a private message with your Indeed account email address so we can check this out.
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2021
I have tried repeatedly to give an honest review of my former job at Midas. Indeed keeps rejecting it. I have taken thing out. Removed anything that may cause it to be rejected. And yet still rejected without reason. I have heard from several sources if the company you are reviewing uses Indeed to find employees they will not let you post a review if it shows them in a bad light. I had a horrible experience working there and feel other applicants should have the right to see all reviews good or bad.

Hi there, to clarify, reviews are subject to a moderation process, so your review may not post immediately when it is entered. If you wrote a review for a company that did not become public or was removed after being posted, it is possible that the review did not conform to our guidelines. You can view the guidelines at: https://support.indeed.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046789111-Company-Review-Policies. Unfortunately, we are not able to discuss individual reviews that may not have been approved.

Reviewed Dec. 25, 2020
I just want to warn people About indeed.com the job site. It's a lot of scammers on there. Be careful about giving your information to someone who appears to be a employer. I have been scammed 3 times by three different so called companies. But time indeed send you a email about the company they be done, already got your information off indeed. It's very sad people are out here looking for jobs and still getting messed over.
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2020
I use Indeed to look for jobs. Recently received an email from them saying a job I applied for had been removed and that if someone from that job tried to contact me, not to talk to them. When I tried to contact Indeed, I found it was impossible. So now some shady business has all my personal information and I can't get any assistance from Indeed about anything. Very scary and very frustrating.

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Reviewed Dec. 9, 2020
Indeed offers free posting, but after I do a free posting my accounts gets blocked and even I appeal at the decision, there is no response. For the past 3 days this is happening. If you want to provide only charged/sponsored job posting then why do you offer free job posting and then blocking the account at last. Indeed was not like this before. I'm noticing it only past 1 week. Why is this happening????

Hello Anjali, thank you for reaching out. To explain, Indeed offers the option to post for free or sponsor jobs. There are some exceptions to the free posting. In addition, all job postings and accounts must go through an internal review process to ensure our guidelines are met. A member of our team has responded to your review by private message. Please follow up with us there so we can further assist.
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2020
I check every morning at saved search locations, is says there are 4 new jobs. I click and there are hundreds from Vancouver to PEI. Yes there was 4 in my area but find them. Also if there's a bad review on a company. The company can delete it. Why are there reviews then???

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Reviewed Oct. 19, 2020
I do not know what is going on with this site this year. I had great experiences in the past, but as of lately it seems like there is nothing available for me. I receive suggestions that are not related to my skills on my resume, a ridiculous amount of scam calls/texts for jobs, and they continue to ask me to review my previous employers. They also reject reviews if you tell the truth about a previous job, at least the last two I attempted to post. People need to know what they are getting into when they apply for positions and Indeed does not want that to happen. If I would have known the truth, I would have chosen another company in the past, but all the reviews for this specific company were sugar-coated. My advice would be to find additional sites for employment and take your time to read the reviews thoroughly. I do not want a generic response from Indeed either, just save it.

Regarding the reviews you have posted for other companies on Indeed, a review will only be removed if it violates our guidelines: https://support.indeed.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046789111-Company-Review-Policies.
Please email us at socialcare@indeed.com for assistance.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2020
I placed an ad and found myself in a conversation with a sales associate who was there to "Help Me maximize my results". The billing structure is "Per Click" supposedly the questions we asked was going to eliminate unqualified applicants. In the course of the month I got no more than a dozen applicants, none of which fit our needs and that cost me approximately $1,200.00.
Apparently if someone opens the ad I am billed for a click at approx $10.00 each. I was blown away with the cost so I went on the site and the invoices posted only showed the total amount, no way to know how they got to that number. They Bill your credit card when you reach $500.00 so I got three invoices that month, no notice, just a charge to my account. I will never use Indeed again. There was a time that they were reasonable but not now.
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Hello Ed, thank you for reaching out and sharing this with us. To explain Indeed works on a cost per click basis. This means every time someone clicks on your ad you are going to be charged a small amount. This amount will be subtracted from your daily or monthly budget you choose to spend. Our system will try to get you the most clicks at the lowest cost. We would be happy to take a look at your account to see how we can help here. If you're interested, please send us a private message.
Reviewed Aug. 18, 2020
Until today my company job never able to post so we decide to move to Glassdoor and LinkedIn. We don't know for what is happening. No matter how the job description we create the best still it is disable. When we contact the team, they said they look for quality and we made the quality standard and still disable at second time. They said that we did not pay enough in the past. Past we have different team, now we are willing to pay. Indeed, don't just become money driver measure our past to present now. But become understand company have different stages, not because they don't spend money enough, you try to limit them. What was not how indeed started. HR has different people work together, and company has different stages to spend money for their job post.

Hi Helen, we would like to have a closer look at this for you. All accounts on Indeed are subject to a routine review designed to protect our job seekers and employers and ensure a high level of quality in our search results, it sounds like your account was flagged for this review. If you can follow up with us by email to socialcare@indeed.com we would be happy to check this out for you.
Reviewed Aug. 3, 2020
I've experienced two scams in two weeks, there are regular notices on the site of how to avoid being scammed, and lots of testimonials around about people who've been scammed. I've come to not trust the information on the site. I'm not sure if the jobs posted are even real, based upon the testimony of others. I tried to contact Indeed as the site itself says to if you think you are being scammed or to report a job you think is fake, and there was no way to submit any claim. Is Indeed doing anything to ensure the legitimacy of the jobs posted on its site? I'll have to go back to pounding the pavement at actual company websites, instead of wasting time wondering if my resume is being seen by legitimate companies or if the job postings are actually real.

Hello Marci, we can assure you that at Indeed, we work to proactively identify and remove predatory content from search results. To learn more about reporting a job or a message you received through Indeed please use the links below.
https://support.indeed.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028156452-Reporting-a-jobhttps://support.indeed.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040122551-Report-a-Message
Feel free to send us a private message if you have additional concerns.
Reviewed Aug. 1, 2020
My first and only post and this is the result: "Your ability to post jobs on Indeed has been disabled". No explanations, no email, just "disabled". Unfriendly first contact, no idea why, no customer support during weekends.

Hello Lili, to explain, it is normal that all accounts will be reviewed as we must verify the connection between the account creator and the company they are hiring for. We must also ensure that our quality guidelines are met. We would be happy to take a look at your account to see how we can help here. If you're interested, please send us a private message with your Indeed account email address. We look forward to working with you.
Reviewed July 16, 2020
I have a resume on Indeed and my resume got marked as private for some reason. I reached out to indeed support and after a month they comeback and tell, "We reviewed and it's still going to be marked private" without any valid explanation.

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Reviewed July 4, 2020
I love this website. It is easy to navigate and to find a job that fits your needs. It also sends you recommendations based on your resume. It also will send your resume to companies based on your resume.
Reviewed July 4, 2020
I post employer positions to this website and find it very easy/user friendly. They also do basic posting for free and offer a paid posting if you want super visibility. They get postings on their website quickly. When 'looking' for jobs they need to improve, as the key search words and city should be more intuitive (i.e., when you put in 'secretary' you should get ALL clerical type postings).
Reviewed July 3, 2020
I have used this job search site several times and always find it to be the search site that works the best for my needs. Not only are the jobs updated frequently, you can update your resume easily. It notifies you of jobs and new posts for jobs.
Reviewed July 2, 2020
Indeed offers a wide selection of job categories, communication selection, and free job services. I particularly like the job services that including help writing cover letters, interviewing, and resumes.
Original Review: July 1, 2020
Indeed is indeed extremely greedy and unprofessional. They have harassed me about 2 years, every time I try to post a job for any intern. They are desperate for money. Use Craigslist. I have a lot of responsibilities and my own company and don't need Indeed telling me I am banned for placing a ad for an intern.

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Reviewed June 30, 2020
Personal I love this website, is easy, trusting, and fast. All my jobs I got is always thru Indeed, I recommend to everyone. Every time I see a person looking for a job I tell them go to indeed and you will find it faster.
Reviewed June 29, 2020
Feed in the detailed information and Indeed will zero in on jobs that meet your qualifications, distance, right in your area, full or part time and instructions for applying. They list several possible positions and give all pertinent information an applicant needs in order to apply.
Reviewed June 28, 2020
Indeed is an important and excellent job search site, job board, website. I have been using it for at least 3 years and running now. It offers me a great deal of latitude and alternatives for searching various fields or industries, I.E. Employment areas and commensurate options when I am looking for employment. I have 5 degrees in 5 different areas and so I need diversified searches. The varieties of potential jobs in a area or field is excellent when using indeed. I have recommend it to many people looking for employment in many career fields and either full and part time hours.
Reviewed June 27, 2020
This site is truly a scam, yes SCAM. You post a job for your company, and the only way you can review resumes is one - the applicant applies, or two you have to pay a minimum of $100/per month to review resumes? And you are only allowed 30 LOL??? Are you kidding me?? That is a true scam and I will never endorse their business practices at Indeed. Additionally, they allow people that don't even match the criteria of the posted job to apply, even with the key search words in place. It is definitely not worth the no matter what. "Stay Away!"

Hi Steven, thank you for reaching out. To explain, when your job is posted on Indeed it's available for anyone to apply for. We are currently testing features to help deter unqualified candidates from applying. As for resumes, our Resume Database is a separate feature from our job posts. You do need to have an active subscription in order to contact job seekers there. To learn more about this please visit the link below.
https://indeed.force.com/employerSupport1/s/article/360015770312?language
Reviewed June 27, 2020
They keep improving and adding search filters to make it easier to find a job. Not just stockpiling a bunch of listings based off of 1 similar word. You can add edit and even print a resume directly from your account as well.
Reviewed June 27, 2020
Indeed will help you get apply for the job you are looking for. It also has reviews from employees that work or used to work there. At times if you are not careful there are scams from people who post jobs. Indeed are aware of that and when you report it they will handle it from there. I love using indeed. As a matter of fact, I'm searching for a job now!
Reviewed June 27, 2020
I am a retired school teacher, but since retiring in 2011, I have looked for part-time jobs just to add a little extra income to my teacher retirement (which just barely covers my bills and leaves nothing for anything else.) I have found three different jobs through Indeed. I found a job at a discount store, an assistant teacher's job, and a job at an eye care center. All were half-day jobs with average incomes that filled the gap I was looking for. The discount store was a seasonal job at Christmas, but the other two were long term jobs that I kept for a few years each. Indeed gives you a very good description of the jobs and makes it easy to apply. I found that I can completely trust the reliability of Indeed.
Reviewed June 26, 2020
Indeed is a really efficient website for finding a job locally. There’s search filters to help find a job in a certain area, if it’s part-time or full-time, and even specific types of jobs. Once the criteria is in place, job-seekers can search through recent and older job listings. Many of the listings are able to be responded to, and response is sent directly to the employer.
Reviewed June 26, 2020
I love Indeed because it has an versatile app and is easy to navigate- it's very user friendly and I love that I can do different searches and then have the results sent to me. I also love that I can create and then download my resume straight from the app and the hints are also helpful. There are so many jobs listed there that I feel that it's a reliable source and will have real-time results for jobs hiring now.
Reviewed June 26, 2020
Indeed is the main job search site I use. I like its simplicity. Yet it is robust in bringing up similar jobs related to my keyword search. I like that companies have reviews, and that I can leave a review if I would like. I can upload my resume and apply through Indeed, or I can go directly to the company's website.
Reviewed June 25, 2020
I'm not a big fan of their Resume Creation tool. I've tried it and the formatting always looks strange, so I end up uploading a resume. I do like that I can sort by date and distance. I also use this website because I like the functionality where I can view more details in a section to the right of all the listings instead of a separate page.
Reviewed June 25, 2020
Indeed finds the majority of jobs I am looking for, but it is annoying when you see the same job repeated several times in the same search. Many advertisers, I believe, attempt to use that to their advantage to get users to notice the job offer they have. I feel the advertiser is being desperate and making themselves look foolish.
Reviewed June 25, 2020
It’s been a imperative part of my job searching and really became a part of daily life until I found a job that I wanted. Numerous search possibilities for jobs and areas of employment. Good resume starter and There are assessments that can be taken and added to resume.
Reviewed June 24, 2020
I have used Indeed and have had success in finding employment. This site allows you to search for any type of employment either with or without a recruiter. It will also allow you to see what employees think about the company in various locations in which the company has offices.
Reviewed June 24, 2020
You can apply directly with companies in one click. And you cAn see pay, benefits such as health, dental & vision. 401K plans. Also gives gives job description and description of job. Hours and days of work.
Reviewed June 23, 2020
The only problem I found with Indeed is that they say there is jobs in your area that posted the same day, but when you go to the company actual site. They have no jobs that are within 250 miles of your area.
Reviewed June 23, 2020
My only disappoint with Indeed is even when I put location or miles willing to drive it shows that are not even in that vicinity. I like the notifications. And the fact that you can share job info to friends who too are needing a job. Making it easy for them to apply.
Reviewed June 22, 2020
I use the site and it has a lot of good resources. Sometimes they duplicate some job postings but is good overall. I do like the “easy apply” feature that sends your resume automatically. I would recommend it.
Reviewed June 21, 2020
If you have ever taken an Indeed assessment you will be familiar with what I am talking about. The format of the questions takes some getting used to and (unless you are lucky) you will do poorly on this timed, stressful, poorly constructed selection tool. About half way through the test you will become familiar with the way the questions are presented. In my case, at this point I breezed through the rest of the test... but too late! The overall results were poor with no opportunity to retake. I consider this a process fraught with error and an extremely poor predictor of success in any position.

Hi John, we're sorry to hear that you feel this way and we'll ensure your feedback is brought to the attention of our Assessments Team. You can request a retake of an assessment if you had an issue by going to https://www.indeed.com/support/contact, choosing the Assessments option and selecting "Request a retake" on the following page. If we can assist further with this please send us a private message, we are happy to assist.
Reviewed June 21, 2020
I always use Indeed when I begin a job search. I've gotten multiple jobs that have been amazing opportunities for me, and I know I can trust the job postings on Indeed. It is also very user friendly and has a lot of very useful search tools. I've worked as a recruiting intern as well, and we constantly used Indeed to source resumes, so I know first-hand that employers love this search tool.
Reviewed June 21, 2020
Used to work as an Employment Program Specialist for the State of California (for 15 years). Discovered Indeed.com long ago and always recommended it to clients. It has just consistently gotten better over time. When the Department of Labor discontinued its America's Job Bank, maybe 15 years ago, I even contacted the folks at Indeed to inquire about taking over for AJB, but at the time they didn't seem to appreciate the potential.
Reviewed June 20, 2020
It’s easy to navigate for positions, searching for different cities or locations. There are pretty accurate job descriptions. Some challenges are that sometimes the search isn’t accurate and will populate jobs in different provinces. Mostly a great resource. I have been hired through Indeed.
Reviewed June 20, 2020
Indeed.com has a great website. I love the option to be notified of new jobs posted for a particular career field. Job results from specific searches are not always applicable to the search terms. The company reviews from other Indeed users are also a tremendous resource.
Reviewed June 20, 2020
Indeed makes applying simple, one click apply with current resume previously uploaded. Other job search sites have you populate there database, upon finding a match (often from Indeed) redirect you to populate another database to apply, that is if you can escape the advertisements; Extended Education, Labor Attorneys, Health Insurance, Etc... and they sell your info for spam advertisements. Indeed, 1 click to apply for a matched job.
Reviewed June 19, 2020
The experience is great for a job search engine, however after applying I more often than not get no response from the companies that decline my application. It's like falling into the deep dark job search on the internet.
Reviewed June 19, 2020
As long as you put in the parameters of the job you are seeking, Indeed.com sends as many job opportunities as possible. Then it's up to you to apply for whatever you feel is a good fit for you. The only complaint I have about this website is that there are also what I feel to be "scam" jobs listed. Again, however, it's up to you to sort through the positions you are sent on a daily basis.

Hi Cindy, thank you for reaching out. To explain, Indeed is a keyword search engine. This means that any job that has one or all of the keywords you are searching for will appear in your search results. We suggest using our Advanced Search to help narrow down your search.
www.indeed.com/advanced_search
In addition, we take the quality of jobs posted on our site very seriously. If you have concerns about a specific position feel free to send us a private message and we can look into this.
Reviewed June 18, 2020
Indeed posts job announcements and allow job seekers to conveniently type on site a cover letter. I like to follow organizations of interest. I have never experienced a rep to contact me about my application being reviewed or to offer supportive options. What I like best is the ability to navigate their system to locate job possibilities by typing in various words to search job responsibilities to see availabilities. The site is easy to navigate. The lack of rep support has been obvious.
Reviewed June 18, 2020
I have had several job prospects from using this Indeed.com. Other than sometimes the matches are not relevant to what I am looking for, and the duplicate emails for the same jobs, I would recommend them.
Reviewed June 17, 2020
This job search engine is for medical personnel, not only is this where I found two part-time jobs, but also useful to compare salaries across the country. It is easy to use comprehensive for part-time, full-time nurses, medical assistants, coders, nursing assistants and Allied health professionals.
Reviewed June 16, 2020
I just have to say that Adrian ** is Amazing!! He is so nice! Polite!! Great customer service!!! I could not be happier with his customer service!!! He explains everything in perfect detail! He deserves recognition for his customer service!
Reviewed June 16, 2020
Indeed allowed me to customize my search from city area within that city to the payscale or type of job or both. It also allowed me to read the reviews that were posted on the web through Glassdoor, LinkedIn or what was found on the web. I enjoy the updates that are sent to me and the ability to store multiple resumes and cover letters.
Reviewed June 15, 2020
The ability to set up different search agents for different types of jobs. You can also update your resume right on the website without having to download another one. Easy website to navigate and look for what you want.
Reviewed June 15, 2020
I like Indeed but I have two major complaints. One is the testing. I have taken all the required test and passed them with good grades but when I apply for another job sometimes I need to take the same test over and over again. I googled and it says to elect to SHOW your test results to FUTURE employers and I turned that notice ON. However, I am still asked to take the same test over again. Second the sight sends me jobs Openings by emails that I have not asked for them to send or I have never even searched for those jobs in the past. Regardless of the fact I have saved my email alerts under accountant. One last thing I wished indeed would only send me remote part time jobs under my saved email alerts but they do not.
Reviewed June 14, 2020
Lots of job options available daily, weekly, monthly notices. Targeted alerts. Reviews and more. What more can I say. It been around for some time and offers great opportunity especially for people omg. It’s amazing to see all the jobs and select those you want daily.
Reviewed June 14, 2020
Indeed is the best career source when searching for a new job! It gathers tons of jobs from other websites and sources and puts them all in one place! It’s important to still do your searches other places, but if I were looking for a new job I would hands down search Indeed first.
Reviewed June 14, 2020
Easy to navigate. I especially like the 'quick apply' feature that you can utilize, once you have saved a resume on the site. That is another feature that they offer ~ writing & saving a resume directly in their system that you can download, and print for offline use.
Reviewed June 13, 2020
Despite finding Indeed to be superior in terms of the quantity of job listings, I never did find employment from using it. I believe that was due to my looking for a part-time position and my not having sufficient technological skills. For example, I had worked as a medical assistant/receptionist for nearly eight years (that was my last job) and I assumed I'd be able to find a similar position easily. Wrong! The doctor I worked for refused to use electronic records so I had no skills in that area. Most every other medical practice required someone familiar with medical record keeping and that seemed to make me automatically unsuited. I can't blame Indeed for that because they did have numerous jobs that were listed and seemed promising. I just didn't have the right skills.
Reviewed June 13, 2020
Indeed is a good source for job seekers in all fields whether you are just starting out or are experienced. The site stays current and allows the user to fine tune searches. It provides resume design and research tools. Offers some background on employers.
Reviewed June 13, 2020
They have a good service where you can narrow down jobs much easier. You are able to set it up how often you would prefer updates whether it be daily, weekly or monthly. You can also keep your site information but put it on hold.
Reviewed June 12, 2020
Indeed has always been my Go-to site. I get good search results, I get notifications when job has looked at application and how many times, they notify me of emails etc. It is so easy that once my info is in the computer I can literally pump out hundreds of applications!
Reviewed June 12, 2020
Great search site! Truly easy to use, very straightforward. Prefer as one of two sites that - what you see is what you get - very detailed job descriptions, as well as the ability to get answers to questions you may have as eliminators ie salary ranges, etc.
Reviewed June 2, 2020
Indeed now makes you take these tests that are completely irrelevant to the job you're applying for and purposely degrades your chances of getting a job offer. I think the test improperly weeds out excellent candidates and makes it really unfair for people especially when the person is more than qualified for the position.

Hi Matthew, thank you for taking the time to share this feedback with us. We designed Indeed Assessments to help employers quickly find candidates with the skills they need. With it, employers can send skills tests to candidates and then see how candidates perform in relation to others that have taken the same assessment. We are very sorry to hear that you feel this way and we will ensure your feedback is brought to the attention of our Assessments Team.
Reviewed May 25, 2020
I've completed a few skills-based assessments and some I have scored high. However, there are some skills-based assessments that I feel are wrongly worded and subjective. This is especially true with assessments dealing with people, relationships, interpersonal, sales, etc., that lacks situational context from some poorly worded questions and answers. And even worse, after completing the test you aren't allowed to view the questions you got "wrong."

Hi Travis, thank you for reaching out and sharing this feedback with us. We will be sure to pass it over to our Assessments Team. In addition, as a security precaution, we do not allow anyone (including employers) to see answers to any of our assessments. The score for each assessment will be good for 6 months. After this timeframe you have the ability to retake it. We hope this helps. Please let us know if there's anything else we can do to assist.
Reviewed April 28, 2020
I am a small business owner and I have twice created profile for hiring talent. I am dedicated in responding to candidates and making sure I am professional in my communication. Yet twice my profile has been blocked by Indeed and the responses I get are auto generated. On filling appeal details I get another auto generated response in few minutes on rejection with no detail on what was wrong or the rejecting reason. If only there were other options I would never go to indeed for my hiring needs

Thank you for reaching out. To explain, it is normal that all accounts will be reviewed as we must verify the connection between the account creator and the company they are hiring for. Our team would be happy to take a look at your account to see how we can help. If you're interested, please send us a private message with your Indeed account email address.
Reviewed April 5, 2020
The assessments are hysterical. I have not only owned and been very successful in one of the most difficult businesses to succeed (full service restaurant), but have had consulting businesses that have also been wildly successful. Along comes Indeed (and some assessments thought of by pencil pushers) and they feel in order for you to be "qualified", an 8 minute assessment will determine if your resume gets viewed. Lol...never mind the irrefutable tangible documented track record of success I have, an 8 minute assessment (if poorly scored on) will now stop an employer from seeing your resume and hard concrete proof of your successes...you've been screened out. I know Indeed will say they are not part of the hiring process, but you ARE! Your company determined and implemented these assessments for an employer to use in MAKING A DECISION, before they have even seen your resume! PATHETIC!

Hi Austin, thank you for following up on your review. Indeed is not directly involved in the hiring process. It is 100% up to the employer to select the assessment of their choosing. Employers still have the option to review resumes of candidates who did not score well on the assessment. This will not prevent an employer from having access to contacting you. Please know that we are here to help in any way that we can during this pressing time. We have sent you a private message as well.
Reviewed March 10, 2020
I attempted to post a job on Indeed for a licensed insurance agent. I filled out all of the required information, and completed it. Shortly after I received an email stating it would not be posted as it did not meet their standards and that I could appeal the decision. I then appealed the decision and gave them additional information to include website my phone number etc. I was told again that it would not be posted and I was disabled and not allowed to post any other job ads. Later that evening I received an email stating someone had applied, upon opening it I got a notice that my account was disabled. The next morning I received an email from Indeed attempting to persuade me to purchase additional services for my ad they would not post.

Hi Justin, thank you for reaching out and sharing this with us. A member of our team has responded to your review by private message. Please follow up with us there so we can further assist.

Reviewed Feb. 29, 2020
Major pet peeve: Even though I've completed three related assessments and scored Highly Proficient on all, essentially every time I apply for a new job, I'm asked to complete the assessment(s) again. Stop!

Hello Peter, thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We have responded to your review by private message. Feel free to follow up with our team if you ever need additional assistance!
Reviewed Feb. 29, 2020
Don't use Indeed.com to apply for jobs. It is a company that is being used by its clients to kill your job applications. My experiences with Indeed was terrible. They've constantly sent job rejection emails to me for whatever jobs I applied for within the past one year. They worked alone with their financial clients to track and kill my job applications. Don't use Indeed if you messed up relationship with any of their clients. Save your time and apply for your jobs at other places.

Hi Eileen. Indeed is not directly involved in the hiring process. When you send an application through our site it is directly sent to the employer via their Indeed account and their email address. All correspondence back to job seekers is from the employer not Indeed. We hope this helps!
Reviewed Feb. 28, 2020
Does anybody really get a job that's advertised on Indeed? I have applied for hundreds and not one interview. I am experiencing in my job but no job offers. Are these fake jobs that they advertised or not.

Hi Darren. As Indeed is not involved in the hiring process, we cannot guarantee that all employers will respond to your applications. We understand that it can be frustrating to sit and wait to hear back from an employer so, we will be sure to pass this along to our Product Team. In the meantime, if we can be of any assistance please follow up with us in the private message we've sent you. We're always happy to help!
Reviewed Feb. 28, 2020
Recently I had the most disturbing experience with Indeed. I have had an account with indeed for quite some time.. It was time for me to start searching for jobs again so when I updated my resume I put my email address but I also notice they had one box for an employer contact email address which in which I put a different email address. Well I wanted to go and change the employer contact address to match my email address I had on my resume.... That when thing went "haywire". I noticed when I tried to edit it, it would not let me so I tried to reach out to indeed via email.. They gave me instruction but these instructions did not work.
I ended up calling indeed and speaking with a staff member and described to her in great detail what was going on and she ended up disabling my whole account.. I stated to her that the email address that was on my resume I just wanted to put that email address on my employer contact. But to no avail, I was not successful. I also noticed that earlier on in my job search that that put a "bogus" email address in place of my employer contact email.. I ask the indeed employee why did they do this. She responded, "This was just for security purposes..." So I reached out to a couple of friends who had indeed account and they verified to me that they did not have such g names in place of their email addresses. So I wrote a email to indeed via their contact support page and expressed my concern, however I received no response. I called indeed back (mind you this was my only way to get in touch to speak with a live person).
On this call she proceeded to say that she had no contact with the people that handle the job seekers accounts, my whole thing was - **for ALL of my personal information that I have trusted these people with as it relates to job hunting and my potential job searches do they hire these people in the United States or is it outside of the US? but she could not tell me anything.
** Another thing is that I started to noticed that indeed would send my bogus job positions.. I went on their website and seen a job for a customer service agent for a airline company, so instead of applying through indeed, I went on the company website and when I looked on this website there was no such position listed for this paticular area. I did this several times because I had to make sure that the time in which they sent these positions out on their website was no more than at least 24 hrs. before I went on the company website.
** Another disturbing experience, I needed to make sure that my findings were as true to detail as I could get them... And so far my previous experiences just threw more "red flags" up. So I went and applied for a position through indeed. I realized I had heard nothing from them, So I decided to give them a call to follow up. I reached the HR department and spoke with a lady and she confirmed the receipt of my application via indeed however she paused and said that all they had from indeed was just my resume no name, no contact number, no nothing. This is why no one called or I had not received a reply from them. She went on to say, she thought it was most strange because this had never happened before as I agreed because in setting up your account (resume) certain information is "required" to complete setup (resume).
I reached back out to indeed, and spoke with Haley and she confirmed everything, and even though she apologized she still could not put me in touch with the person who was handling my resume.. I received an email from an indeed employee, who deem himself as my "job seeking specialist"... Mind you I did not give my consent to this particular person to personally handle my resume or job opportunities. So nothing was done. I even asked Haley to have someone a supervisor from the job seeker department to give me a call, however she could not even do that because she claimed she all she could do was just note my concerns.
Conclusion: PLEASE be very careful when applying with these job websites..my gramma had a saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Sometime the best way is the old school way. Do your research and if in doubt, "GET OUT!". Just apply through the company website. But also I have started to write and share my experience with more people and reached out to my representative to hold these companies responsible. When looking for a job every minute counts. At this point, I would not recommend indeed to anyone, and watch out for any one who is claiming to be from indeed claiming to be your job seeker assistant. I am still waiting for a response from indeed. I have not received any yet.

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Reviewed Feb. 27, 2020
Trying to find a legitimate job. The only callbacks are people trying to scam your email address. Ugh!!!! Half the job is the administrative field are bogus. Mostly ending with INc or Ltd. It’s ridiculous.

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Reviewed Feb. 27, 2020
There's good on this site to a point. Too often, the format changes: the few filters/info. is down the side or across the top where I can't change things without having to go back a page. There's an X but it will not clear. A few times across the top there were little boxes that provided some "advanced" search (e.g. this computer appl. was needed or phys. req. in lbs.) but this is not standard.
There's much time wasted on repeated listings, even within similar subjects (What). Things need to be further narrowed down. If you are disabled you can't look for suitable jobs if you have to sit or cannot lift much. It will lead you to jobs caring FOR the disabled. I gave up trying to explain these issues to customer service. You may get a good one; you may not. A good CSR and speak and read well. You discover that in their response, even voice IF you can get thru by phone (any company). Finally, many listings are inadequate, omitting details like hours, duty, pay. Others are crowded with words. So I have to give them a 3 for now. No use getting frustrated. Other job sites may be equally challenging to some extent. I have no patience for websites that are needlessly hard to navigate.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2020
I have been told to look on Indeed from all aspects of education from high school to college. However, after looking through jobs and finally finding one I liked. I have been scammed, confidential information stolen and no job prospect. After realizing it took one call to find out it was a scam, one call to the phone number the scammers listed. So disappointing, if Indeed can please contact me, I will tell them in full detail what happened. Everyone please remember: TALK TO SOMEONE BEFORE SENDING PERSONAL INFORMATION.

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Reviewed Feb. 19, 2020
The website of Indeed.com is awful. Several times trying to complete and send a resume to a employer and several times it will not accept my information. Better off contacting the individual company and bypassing Indeed all together if you can. This is not right for a employment agency.

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Reviewed Feb. 7, 2020
Great platform from both a job seeker and employer perspective. Site is easy to use and the support has been great! I had an issue with getting my job to show up in their search results and was able to quickly contact their support team to make sure the account was re-enabled. Their team was quick to respond to my request and I was able to hire a candidate off their site!

Hi Estelle, thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review! We are so glad to hear you had a great experience with our site. If you ever need additional assistance in the future. Feel free to reach out to our team at socialcare@indeed.com. Our team is always happy to help!
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2020
No matter what experience I state is required I constantly have "baby sitters" applying for my kitchen manager position as well as many people who don't even live in Canada applying for the position. The ones that do apply with a name I can read tend to not show up for interview. Really starting to question how many of the resumes are real and how many are created by Indeed. Oh, did I mention they charge me money for these resumes from people who don't even have Canadian citizenship and are applying from Africa. This site is suck a fraudulent scam from what I can tell. 1 out of 100 might actually be a person in the country that shows up. Moving onto Zip Recruiter. Heard positive things about them and all the stuff I hear about Indeed matches my experiences. Except for those review that were clearly written by Indeed.

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Reviewed Jan. 19, 2020
I continue to receive job postings for the company Sofina but checking the website for that specific company there are no jobs being offered. I suspect Indeed recycles old postings. It's a waste of my time and effort.

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Reviewed Jan. 18, 2020
After being hired for a new position, I was tasked with interviewing and hiring a team. Indeed has made that EXTREMELY difficult to do. So I am using another service and I am pleased so far. My recommendation: be ready to show tax forms and confidential company information just to find resumes.

Hi there, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. All accounts on Indeed do go through a review process that may require additional documentation for verification purposes. At this time, we have private messaged you so we can further look into this situation with you. Please follow up with us there. We look forward to working with you!
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2020
Indeed does not allow employees to post about their negative experiences with their current or former employers. They say that you cannot post, no matter how truthful, any illegal or immoral behaviors of companies on Indeed. You can post positive stuff all day long, but never a detailed negative review, no matter how spot on the review happens to be.
Indeed gives a false impression to job seekers because of this, and larger companies, with big budgets can have a glossy front, but sometimes, that is all it is, a glossy front. Sometimes these companies are truly really horrible to work for, and sometimes they engage and encourage illegal practices to boot. Why shouldn't an employee be able to describe harassment based on sex, gender, race, etc? It happens, especially in larger than life companies. Doesn't the public and job seekers have the right to know what really goes on behind those glossy fronts?

Hi Charlie. Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. Reviews are subject to a moderation process. If you wrote a review for a company that did not become public or was removed after being posted, it is possible that the review did not conform to our guidelines. You can view the guidelines at: http://www.indeed.com/cmp/_r/content-guidelines. Unfortunately, we are not able to discuss individual reviews that may not have been approved.
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2020
After we leave a job posting on indeed.com they change and take off features that were promised in the first place. Misleading wording on their job site. They don’t even email you after they have made changes to your job posting. I’ve called customer support to ask them why we weren’t notified of changes on our job listing and of course they do not have an answer for us. Misleading listed information on their website.

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Reviewed Jan. 4, 2020
First, they create a NEW company page every time you list a job. Then, if someone posts a review about working at your company, you can't respond to the review (I tried and even Indeed customer service couldn't figure out why I was unable to respond to a review about our company). They allow literally ANYONE to post a review about supposedly working for a company with little to no accountability to determine whether the person actually works there or ever did. So, basically, Indeed allows someone to slander a company, say they are a current employee, and not permit the employer to respond to a negative review, even if it is from ANYONE (like the competition) regardless of whether they work for you or not. VERY shameful "business" practices.
As an employer with 30 years of experience hiring people, building a business, running organizations, and learning about best practices, Indeed has A LOT to learn! Their customer service department is LOST in knowing how to help people. I would love to have been able to respond to the person who claimed to work for us. So VERY unprofessional and unethical!

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Reviewed Jan. 3, 2020
I was interviewed buy a recruiter from Indeed app. He told me he would send over paperwork the following week which was a holiday week. I was applying for a job in the jail system in Sacramento as an X-ray tech. The Recruiter never sent over paperwork as he said he would. He was very positive in the phone interview. I did reach out for a follow up, and I was basically ghosted.

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Reviewed Jan. 1, 2020
I am the Business Development Manager for a national health-care platform and have been using Indeed since 2017 to post jobs / hire for our partner companies. I am not a recruiter. Recently Indeed sent me an email saying that my account has been deemed "unsuitable" for their platform and they are shutting it down. No explanation, no way to find out why...nothing. In today's business environment I find this type of behavior unacceptable and would warn any direct employer to think twice before posting their jobs on Indeed. I did call their customer service and spoke with a live person who told me that she cannot give me any explanation, according to their policy. I did get a refund for the fees incurred for my last posting BUT was not able to access any of the candidate info. This type of practice is the reason I will never recommend Indeed as a hiring platform. Employers STAY AWAY!

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Reviewed Dec. 21, 2019
Don't use indeed.com. They post jobs that don't exist or are 4 months old!! They also are posting the "confidential" ads themselves to make it appear that they have more listings! They will sell your data if you upload your resume! I know because I have been receiving calls for bogus jobs! Also it is based in JAPAN! They are not an American job site! Employers: they never expire your ad and they will keep charging you! You cannot remove your credit card from their site! Total fraud job site.

Reviewed Dec. 11, 2019
I used to love this website but in the last month or so, whatever changes they have made, to make it look like Kijiji, has completely altered their system. I cannot download a simple resume as a PDF onto my desktop. I have to send a link, save it as a file, send it to my email and then when I open it, there is nothing there. When I upload my resume, it replaces my existing resume but puts everything in the wrong places so I spend hours fixing it only to review my resume and it is a simple, ugly looking thing that looks like it was made from a high schooler.
I am so angry at the hours spent yesterday and hours. Spent applying for jobs and I’ve had 3 employers tell me they couldn’t open the file I sent, didn’t want to open the link because they were being warned from their internal systems that they had to leave the system, or they didn’t get a PDF version that allowed them to just open a PDF as an attachment! What the???? Seriously these are people's careers you are messing with, you would think you would make sure all glitches are worked out before putting our reputations on the line! I am applying to high end jobs and I can’t even attach a resume? This is what they are probably thinking so thank you for allowing me to lose many job opportunities! : Time to find a new job site that allows me to keep my resume as is, save it as a PDF to my own desktop and use it when needed!
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2019
We set the budget for our job ad at $25 per day and acknowledged that the amount charged could be different, based on Indeed's statement "actual daily spend may vary". However, we were NOT expecting to be charged $180 in 7 days of a live posting. Our company contacted Indeed's customer service, who then clarified that the daily average we spent would have been readjusted to around $25, had we kept the ad live for 30 days. This was NOT made clear at the time when we set our job budget. Their billing system is not transparent, and is designed to make a quick buck out of you. Our company will not be using Indeed in the future.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2019
All I wanted was to hire someone but Indeed not only takes your money to post and look for an employee. but also provide a platform for those so called employees to write negative reviews on your company. I dont need to pay someone for negative reviews. Do not use this service. Use other job search platforms that does not allow irritate people bad mouth you after you pay them for a service. And it shows up under my companies google searches so everyone can go see this crap.
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2019
Don't share your credit card details to Indeed. I am being charged without notification after every 3- 4 days. I am struggling hard to get customer service number to discuss the issue but I really don't know where have they hidden it. Be aware, you are about to be charged without any calculations or notification. The only notification you get is from your bank about amount deducted.
Reviewed Nov. 13, 2019
Indeed gives you the option (In Theory) to set a daily budget, but they will exceed your budget by 60%-100% every single time for their Own Personal Financial Gain. This is no exaggeration, I have been using them on and off to lace ads for almost a year now. They make it so difficult for me to keep using their platform because I have zero control of my advertising budget. Really Sad Indeed!!
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2019
Our company posted some jobs on indeed.com. We started to get email notification every time an applicant applied. So far so good, but since the number of applicants started to increase we had to disable to email notification. Guess what? There is no such a feature offered in our profile. That's not all. Every application you receive comes from a unique email address "e.g **" instead of a single email, so you can't get rid of the email by just reporting it spam in your gmail. It will keep coming. We had no choice but to close the account. So we went ahead to our dashboard and looked for it. Again, no such a thing exist. We had to contact their support to manually close our account and go through bunch of verification process like our time does not matter at all. Overall, horrible experience. I feel there is a shady practice going on to stop you from leaving and a very basic platform offered with no control over usual things. You better off with another job site.
Reviewed Nov. 7, 2019
As a company we've had 42 positions listed on Indeed in the past few years. We paused all postings because we did not have any openings earlier this year. Somehow one posting was "left open" and not paused and was charged at a rate of $500 a month (for a position that didn't exist). Once my admin caught the charges I contacted our sales rep who did some research on the posting.
He stated that it had just been left open but he could see no activity from us on the posting. Unfortunately he said that couldn't refund even one month of the posting and we have no way to prove it was "paused" because the data belongs to Indeed. That obviously left a bad taste with us and we then attempted to remove our credit card information from their site and delete our account... Impossible! There is no link to "delete account" and a search on the site does not come up with a suggestion. Furthermore, it won't let you take your credit card out without replacing it with another. Our fear now is that the account will be "un-paused" again mysteriously and the burden of proof will be on us.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2019
Indeed has a very easy to use job board for both employers and employees alike. Unfortunately the costs are more than what anyone would want to pay. We spent over $500 in a month and out of 54 candidates, one showed up for their interview. The pricing system works in several ways. You can either budget yourself per day or per month. We set our budget at $20/day (which was recommended) for this ad and only ran it for two weeks because the bill was suddenly over $500. We stopped using indeed because we couldn't be spending $500/month for nothing.
The math clearly didn't add up. It turns out indeed actually charges based on the traffic of applicants. We did receive 54 applicants, but the cost was then calculated per applicant and not set by our budget of $20/day. The indeed support provided no feedback on this only stating that "this is how our system works." We couldn't be wasting all this money for nothing.
We reached out to CareerBuilder and ZipRecruiter who provided much more competitive rates at $350/month and they allowed us to post up to 3 jobs with access to their resume database. We've already hired 2 individuals in the last week thanks to them and we have a couple more openings. It's $700/month, but we've already seen great results in that little amount of time. Indeed's business model is not competitive nor available for small companies that need to budget their costs. Consider all options before signing up with them.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2019
I have been applying for a job using this website (indeed.com) for more than 4 years now, and I haven't received any call backs from any of those jobs that I've applied with. I know that this web site is a scam, because I've applied to more than hundreds of jobs in those 4 years, I suggest that you try other means of looking for a job like referral or Linkedin, with Linkedin in got liked 3 job offers with-in just a month of using that site.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2019
I spent hundreds of dollars to find instructor for my Math center through Indeed but it hardly gave me a good candidate. It is a useless company. Just takes money but does not measure how successful customers are. Account manager Eric approached me when my card got stuck and payment got stopped but he never came to me asking if I am able to achieve my hiring target.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2019
Seems on the surface like a good site...easy to navigate (for the most part) and relatively easy to post a job listing. However, then you discover the "catch." In order to get your posting to show up in search results you have to "bid" to get placement. The "recommended daily spend" from the CSR I spoke to for my part-time job in a small, rural, market posting was $20 per day. Even at that rate you can still get out-bid by larger companies with bigger budgets. Seems pointless to pay to post a job that no one ever gets to see. Of course that also means that if you're seeking employment, you may never find the perfect job if the prospective employer isn't bidding enough to get high in the search results. Indeed's answer to this problem? Spend more money. No thanks. I'll stick with other sites whose search results are based on keywords and relevance, not how much I'll allow myself to be fleeced.
Reviewed Oct. 10, 2019
I am an employer needing to hire an RN or an RT (Respiratory Therapist) for home healthcare. ** I had not used Indeed before so I set up an account and went through the process to post a non-sponsored listing, which is Indeed lingo for free. Thought I would try out the service first. What followed was my job posting being suspended, and then disabled with no explanation as to why, then an emailed notice that I needed to submit evidence that I represented a "real" business. I complied, and was emailed by three different staffers, variously called "Success Specialists".
These contacts were completely ineffectual, as if the staffers merely had to check off a contact attempt without being measured on efficacy. Further, my providing the requested data led to - NOTHING! It's been three days and no follow-up from them. So now I'm three weeks into this Indeed fiasco, my posting is still disabled and I can't find any way to resolve the problem or to make a complaint directly to Indeed through their website. I would completely avoid using Indeed if you have any other choice of postings board.
Reviewed Oct. 8, 2019
Been searching for four years, in a Trade!!! Nothing! Zip! Nadda!!! Waste of time!!! Who decides? I know firsthand it's not always the employer!! I know personally that some "Managers" of companies I've applied to have never had my resume or application cross their desk. Yet I am declined for a job I am qualified for. Wasting my time!!!
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2019
INDEED.COM IS A SCAM! Not one candidate was qualified for the position we posted. Yet, we were charged over $280 for those that clicked on the posting. TBH we don't know if those we contacted were actually real potentials or just Indeed employees. Contacted Indeed with the suggestion that they modify their model requiring both the employer AND the potential employee to put in a CC #. Then they could allow the potential employee to see the body of the job posting -- meaning the job type and minimum requirements for the position -- and if they feel they qualify for the position they can click on it, revealing the full company and contact info, etc.
If the employer reviews their info and determine they do not meet the minimum requirements they simply click a "did not meet minimums" button and the potential employee gets charged, NOT the employer. However, if the employer does want to interview/interact with the potential, then they click an "accepted" button, the employer's CC gets charged, and they are allowed to see the contact info and full name. But, NOOOOOO. They won't do that!
Reviewed Oct. 1, 2019
This company was good but now they don't know what to do with their business. They keep open positions forever [more than 30 days] and nobody cares, when you fill out a app in Indeed. It doesn't go anywhere. They just collect data to harass your email with non-existent offers after. Anybody can post a job there with legal or illegal purposes. Like Timpanos restaurant in Orlando FL. that closed 5 years ago and Indeed post a jobs opening 2 months ago and kept open for 30 days again!!! I tried to communicate with them before this, but there is not way. I understand everything but not the mediocrity of Indeed today, maybe is the fierce competition.
Reviewed Sept. 29, 2019
Same thing happend to us, they Indeed is a fraud company, took credit card detail, I opted for 150 Rs maximum limit per day, and for 2 days they charged my 1907 Rs. It was expected 300+tax, we were just trying Indeed for some time, and suddenly we got message that they have charged 1907 Rs. Even they don't have any option to delete card detail, I don't want to deal with Indeed anymore, I want refund, at least they should have delete credit card option, if my card will be charged further, I will go for legal support, even when we tried to call them and contact them, they putted wrong number on their site - 000 8000 402795 M-F: 10am-5pm, it's just a fraud company. Employers need to stay away from Indeed.co.in, or Indeed, they are just professional scammers. Manish **
Reviewed Sept. 27, 2019
Indeed is a good place to search for jobs but that's it. It won't help you with anything else and it may even cause you harm. In the assessment section, if you are interrupted or have any technical problems while doing them, there is no way to stop them or to erase them from your profile. Plus, it happen to me that the application said that I had an assessment done, while I never did it. You don't have anybody to complain or to help you with the application, so, it is not reliable. And on top of that, many Indeed recruiters send you emails that said that your resume match with this or that job and they are totally different. For example, I am an Anthropologist with vast experience managing art collections, they send me a match for an Engineer position. Where is the match? If you answer anything to these recruiters, you never hear back from them. I don't even know if they are real or not.
Reviewed Sept. 16, 2019
Applicants BEWARE of Scams by Fake Employers. My company does not post job listings on Indeed.com so I was shocked to receive several phone calls & emails today from "applicants". They wanted to verify that I was the one asking for their personal information. Apparently, anyone can open an "employer" account under a real business name and in many cases, they are NOT required by indeed.com to offer proof that they are indeed that business. In my case, someone fraudulently posted a fake job listing and then contacted applicants saying they were from my HR Department. They told the applicants that we needed to run a credit check and background check and that we needed all of their personal information to do that. Luckily, some of the applicants were smart enough to be suspicious and contacted me first. I told them NOT to provide any information because I haven't posted any job listing and it must be a scam.
I spoke with indeed.com and asked why they're not requiring "employers" to provide some type of simple proof of who they are prior to letting them post a job listing. They indicated they usually ask for company name, email, address and phone number. Of course, any criminal can get all of that off a website. They said they "may" ask for further documentation if anything seems suspicious but it may take a few weeks or months. By then many applicants may have already fallen victim to identity theft.
Applicants BEWARE! You should verify that you're talking to the "real" company since indeed.com has likely not done that for you. By the way, the employees at indeed.com were friendly and understood my frustration with their lack of vetting. They said they'll pass along my concerns but I'm not holding my breath that their practices will change... So just look out for yourself and verify that the person contacting you is really who they say they are. Best of luck in your job search!
Reviewed Sept. 10, 2019
I joined Indeed.com in March. I began to notice a few companies really close to my house with ads and I applied but was not contacted. A few weeks pass and the same ad is reposted only now the compensation has jumped from $15hr to $38K annually ($19hr). I tried to contact the company by email no reply then by phone and they simply say to check the website for job openings. When I press and just ask if they are concerned someone could be posting fake ads using their business they say no it hasn't been a problem. I am the first person to call and bring it to their attention. At least 15 jobs I applied for over 30 days ago are reposted now with the exact description and bump in pay.
Also, large corporations have ads for jobs like a pharmacist in a grocery store. The thing is this chain has 1 location in the city and has no in-store pharmacy. If you click on the ad it directs you to the Corporation's website but it then doesn't show that position after you search by city and position that was on Indeed.com. It also states they sell your info, and if you don't like it don't create an account.
After reading the Indeed.com terms it says because it's a free service. You can't hold them responsible for the content, you should conduct a search or background check on anything posted on their site, they do not check that anyone or company is real. Yet when you read the employer's side of the terms you find they get charged per click on the ad, they pay for clicks if you advertise on outside websites.
Reviewed Sept. 6, 2019
Indeed is a useful job search tool – that said, ONLY if you perform a few minutes of critical due diligence before applying. Beware. The site is a jungle of scammers. From experience: No legitimate company will ask you to interview through Google Hangouts. It is a known scam. If after posting your resume and profile you receive: “You’re the perfect candidate for this new opportunity” –type emails from ______@gmail.com, trash it. No legitimate company will use a gmail address. Scam.
The easiest way to avoid a scam and a waste of your valuable time and energy — vet the company/job poster thoroughly! — visit LinkedIn – make sure a company page exists with real employees. Review the employee profiles. It doesn’t take long to recognize legitimate from fake. A real company will have a link to their website. Review the site. Cross-reference and further confirm the company through a Google search. If it’s an individual, perform multiple people searches – you’d be surprised what you can find without paying for a full background report. Be smart. Trust nothing online until you’ve done your research and analysis.
Reviewed Aug. 29, 2019
I love Indeed.com! The easily navigated website makes your entire job search feel and look very professional. They help you make a professional looking resume that can be easily updated, reviewed and attached to each job application. The site gave me a sense of confidence and excitement in my search. Their site continually sends job openings daily. The amount and variation of job openings were surprising and fun to see. I ended up with the perfect job for me within a month! I am 61 years old and it was the best job search I have ever had!
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2019
Earlier this week I saw a post on Indeed about a career fair that Sam's Club was suppose to be having on today (8/23/2019) here in my city, and that they will be hiring on the spot. I had to fill out an application on Sam's website then set up my interview time on Indeed. Well, I was all ecstatic about the idea of working for this company. I prepared myself this morning, paid for a Lyft ($16) then I went to the interview only to find out that Indeed has duped me and over 300 other people. The manager stated that Indeed has done this the past 3 years to people but they only hire from their own site.
I was still angry as none of us who used Indeed were listed for interviews. We were told that we may still be able to interview but only through their site. I came home and applied through their site hoping for a real interview and a job. I lost money that I really could not afford to spend because of a LIE!!! I will not use Indeed anymore for anything!!! I wish Sam's could sue you for what you are doing.
Reviewed Aug. 15, 2019
Posted an ad on Indeed, it was approved, on the site for three days, then they took it down. Wanted additional proof of our company even though we are all over the internet. We sent in a bill with our address on it as requested. It took a week and a half for them to look at it and they said they wanted a utility bill instead?? I cancelled and requested a refund as they are wasting my time, 2 weeks of my time total. Worse service and ad approval model.
Reviewed Aug. 15, 2019
I have had to use Indeed for job searches in the past. The problem I've found is outdated job postings, job postings that don't exist or employer doesn't even have that position available. Indeed will post a lot of jobs but if you check on the actual company site of the job you are applying for, the company is not even hiring. Indeed has wasted a lot of my valuable time trying to find a job, sending resumes to no one most of the time. Best thing to do is when you find a job on indeed, don't apply thru Indeed. Find the companies actual website and apply there.
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2019
Staff is very nice and helpful to the best of their abilities granted. In a 30 day period, we were invoice over $1000, received over 100 applicants and no employees. We had one candidate that accepted the job, filled out paperwork and didn't show for the first day of work. Many out of town applicants that were considering moving to Colorado but had no immediate plans to do so. We were charged for these applicants who were just shopping. We did receive two different credits when we expressed our concerns which was much appreciated. I give the service 1 star but gave 2 stars overall because of the great staff we spoke to on every call. We don't blame Indeed for prospective Employee actions but the billing structure (charge per applicant) is not a good value.
Reviewed Aug. 2, 2019
I have used Indeed in the past, never an issue, I was always able to place a spending limit on my ads. However what I didn't know was I clicked on an old ad to copy and paste the ad to a new ad, which in turn restarted my old ad. Indeed automatically uses a spending threshold of 500.00 so in 1 week my card was charged 500.00. Because I had an extremely full schedule I did not get onto my account and look until a week later and noticing what had happened I immediately shut off all the advertising. Ok so now I have been charged 500.00. Suck it up and pay it. So I did.
Here it is 5 days later they are charging me another 60.00..?? They claim once my card reached the threshold it started billing back to zero. So it was charging again... 5 days after I shut all advertising off. So yeah... Screwed with my pants up. Going to go and dispute my last charge, but I know companies like this I'm sure know how to weasel their way to get their money and some. I hate Craigslist but it's a simple 15.00 for 45 days. Heading over to unemployment places to place free ads. A little more work but I won't give this company another dollar.

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Reviewed July 30, 2019
It is ridiculous that Indeed has job postings older than 1 month. I almost applied to a job that was posted 6 months ago! What a potential waste of time. Obviously they just want it to look like they have lots of job postings. I know you can filter results, but if a job is not available, why even show it?
Reviewed July 26, 2019
I posted my resume on Indeed and I have been searching for a job for over 6 months. No hits whatsoever until an employer contacting me by my telephone number and notified me that he has been trying to contact me through my Indeed email which does not exist. So after careful research and review I notice that on my original resume I have my Gmail account but when I fill out an application through Indeed they put their indeed email account which does not exist. I don't know why they changed my email address to an email address that doesn't even exist. I believe that they're doing it so that people will continue to stay unemployed and use their services. This place is a hoax and they're playing with people's lives. I would have given them a less then a one star if I could.
Reviewed July 25, 2019
As someone who has worked with Indeed for years, I can tell you they really don't care about their clients, or the employers who spend thousands and thousands a month on ads. You can work with dedicated reps who overview EVERY ad, EVERY title, EVERY LITTLE DETAIL, yet you will have your account shut down out of nowhere, and they give you ZERO feedback on why. Even though you have followed every rule set out by your dedicated Indeed rep. ZERO communication between sales and the guys that shut down your accounts. Indeed puts small businesses out of business as they don't allow for those smaller sales companies to grow. Such a shame that this awful company is buying up the ad posting market and making it impossible for the little guys to get out there.
Reviewed July 23, 2019
They then go on to solicit my former employers for business and I never hear back from them. This is absolutely low down, disgusting and infuriating to me.
I think the government needs to bring the hammer down on Companies like Indeed as well as these recruiting agencies and take a closer look at what they are doing with our information. I have now decided not to deal with any more recruiters. In addition, I'm also convinced there are no real jobs for Professionals on Indeed. The Companies that contact me are companies that are looking for cheap labor. Most offering to pay around $10-$12 an hour. I was making more than that when I got my first job after high school almost 20 years ago. The other companies posting on there are trying to scam people. Due to this, I cannot recommend Indeed.
Reviewed July 15, 2019
The information I entered do not appear accordingly sometimes, something I entered in the awards section becomes a work experience?! And there're strange bits and pieces from other sections in wrong places. If you have two kinds of jobs you would like to apply to, which means you'd need to switch to another resume, you'd have to use another account.
Reviewed July 15, 2019
The most terrible platform I ever have seen, EXPENSIVE, NO CUSTOMER SERVICE AT ALL. I try to post the advert, they reply that my advert is disabled it, I don't know why!! I know they misunderstanding, but there is no one to talk to. They don't care about a small client. With the Google job and lots of other new platforms and their bad customer service they will lose the market gradually.
Reviewed June 29, 2019
We are a small business trying to pay someone $20-24/hr for part time help. We've used Indeed in the past with success. Now they've changed their system-- and are essentially a scam. They told us our posting 'wasn't suitable' -- BUT -- if we paid them to sponsor it-- THEN it would magically become suitable to post. If the free option doesn't really exist, don't waste our time and pretend it does. You've deprived a potential job seeker an opportunity for a good part-time job.
Reviewed June 21, 2019
Indeed is a great platform to use to search for jobs. It's easy to use, easy to filter, and easy to apply for positions. I've gotten real interviews and real jobs for it over the past few years. The issue I have is with the scammers on this site; it seems rampant lately! I do my due diligence when applying through job boards: checking spelling and grammar in ads, look for things that seem too good to be true, and making sure the business name is listed in the ad, and then Googling it to make sure it's legitimate.
I'm in Chicago, and quite a few scammers are using legitimate businesses as a cover. I know this, because when I apply for a job, they email me back saying to send my resume to A GMAIL account. Sorry, no law firm's HR department, or any professional business' HR dept, is using a Gmail account. I've had this happen a few times. Indeed needs to start verifying business owners/employers, and maybe raise the price to post a job advertisement. The scammers are a waste of space on the site, and I don't feel comfortable giving my email and phone number to people who aren't using it for the purpose I intend.
Reviewed June 17, 2019
Uploaded my resume (professionally made) which I then had to spend hours correcting all the mistakes from the auto-fill-in system. When jobs start coming they are not conducive to my skills or even close to the resume. Finally, get a valid job worth applying for and there are two problems. 1) need to have a skills test which doesn't match the needs of the job and 2) the plain text resume is so messed up and wrong (not what I entered & corrected at all) that it looks like I am the worst candidate ever.
Reviewed June 14, 2019
Indeed.com invites with many claims for being the best jobs website but their platform is merely a data collecting entity with very little valuable and actual jobs offerings. The setting is so construed that it ignores basic qualifications and sponsors instead a few companies like uber drivers and factory jobs that have nothing to do with the resume you provide as a base. When trying to “unsubscribe” from their many emails it links to a page that has no settings to stop their spamming of emails. Void them! I’ve even send letters to request them from stopping to email me jobs that sound like “you can make $1000 working from home..." Pure scam!
Reviewed June 13, 2019
I find this process frustrating and unprofessional. I have gotten two interviews through Indeed. The problem is, there is no reality between the hourly rate shown on the site and what the employer was willing to pay. In both cases, I asked for the $18 hourly rate Indeed showed as maximum. Since I have an MBA and 20 years office experience, I thought this was reasonable. Both companies told me their rates were $12-14 per hour. Don’t waste my time. Also, there should be a way to contact the interviewer directly on the date of the meeting. Although I was on time for my interviews, traffic issues can cause delays and it would be convenient and professional to have contact numbers between the two parties.
Reviewed June 11, 2019
They don't tell you upfront that your job posting is limited to views daily. I mean REALLY limited. No wonder we never have hired using Indeed. They do call you and promote a higher price for more views. Forget about that! Read the fine print (if there is any) and chose elsewhere.
Reviewed June 10, 2019
Have been using Indeed, as well as the other job sites, for 3 years, and not much to be satisfied about. I don't know if I can blame Indeed & others for the failures, or just the companies they represent. I like Indeed for their quick apply and reply.
Reviewed June 7, 2019
NO PRIVACY OR COPYRIGHT. We have spent tens of thousands of dollars with this company. They have no loyalty to their customers. It took us years to get our ad correct and they just let people copy and paste our ads to their own sites without asking permission. We submitted a complaint, they don’t respond back. All they have is their marketing people respond back trying to get us to spend more and more money. But when issues arise they ignore you for almost a month. There is no address and never responded back. Companies like this will not last long with no printables.
Reviewed June 2, 2019
My fiance has been looking for work for months now. He had decided, based on what is recommended online, to skip Craigslist this time and use Indeed, Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter. All I have to say is that applying to averagely 10 jobs a week for 6 months has landed him 2 phone interviews and 2 in person interviews. 4 from 100s of applications. He visited the unemployment office to try and help and they said his experience and resume were great, he was well spoken and they really were not sure why he wasn't having luck finding work.
So we started paying more attention and realized a pattern. Companies posting positions for 2 weeks were getting about 100 applicants then the job would close. Suddenly the next week the same company would post again. Very weird, they really haven't been able to fill the position? At the same time spam robo calls and emails have substantially increased on his phone and email. A lot of these are scams too, claims his credit card is stolen or he owes money for something etc. We are convinced a large portion of these job postings are fake and really it's companies collecting info to sell to other companies for marketing or even scams.
We finally switched back to Craigslist these last few weeks and the job board for the unemployment office and he has gotten 2 interviews lined up automatically. Craigslist has scams too but I feel it is more obvious and easier to avoid than whatever weird stuff is going on with Indeed. My thought is that maybe 20% of the jobs on Indeed are legit and because of that it can be a huge time waste.
Reviewed May 27, 2019
I work for a staffing company, and for the last year+. Indeed was working perfectly, no complaints, 5 stars. However, all of a sudden I find one day that my account has been disabled, all my posts suspended, and absolutely no explanation as to why. I called several times and each person told me something different. From what I gathered, Indeed decided a few months ago that it no longer allows recruiters and staffing companies to post for free and they would be FORCED to pay to post anything. Yet they advertise themselves as free so they're lying. They even have an option on free accounts to post jobs in multiple locations, yet they suspend you for doing so unless you pay, which is clearly deception.
I never received an update about this policy change, never received a warning, I found out in the rudest way possible. On top of that, from the other reviews I've read and from other people who HAVE paid to post, Indeed lies about how much the cost would be. Apparently getting grossly overcharged is very common where you might think you're paying $5/day but you could get charged as much as $50 or $100. Because of Indeed I now have to find a new job since most of my income relied on them. I really hope someone starts a class action lawsuit against this terrible company, they can't get away with treating people like this. It's disgusting. Also FYI they got a new CEO recently so that may have something to do with it. I hope the marketplace punishes this company for how terribly they treat their users.
Reviewed May 21, 2019
We were sold on ITA and that we'd get 33 resumes for $500. We were told by our rep that we'd receive qualified candidates within a 20 mile radius. Out of the resumes we received, several lived way outside of our radius and many had ZERO relevant skills at all. After voicing my concerns, I was then told that the ads are simply targeting candidates based on the kinds of jobs they apply to and where. It has nothing to do with their actual skill set or location. This was a complete waste of our money and they are doing absolutely NOTHING to provide a resolution. Their solution is simply to suggest that we pay even more money to get candidates. Bad business practices!
Reviewed May 16, 2019
Wanted to try out out Indeed by posting a job and got some candidate. They were the worse candidates which never answered, missed interviews, didn't even come for the first day after hiring them. I deleted those job postings and added more details and requirements. Later that day I get a call from them saying that my postings are not in compliance. I asked why.
They just threw excuses around that, "Has no one ever contacted you to describe details," blah blah. I said no that I know there's nothing wrong with the posting. Then they switch it up and say, "It's because you only get one free posting and after that it has to be paid." Then I said, "I'm not interested that I only get bad candidates." Then they said, "It's because it's not paid," blah blah, "you will only get better candidates if you pay." Sure all lies. It's the same type of candidates just come up in the top of all the postings.
Then they said that they offer a $50 credit to post and I didn't like the idea and then they said they will close my account for not being in compliance... Sure.... They closed my account because they want money. I would of gladly made it a sponsored ad but the way they approached this is very wrong and the lies they mentioned are very wrong way of doing business.
Reviewed May 14, 2019
I was a big fan of Indeed.com until yesterday. I check my job postings every Friday to make sure they are active, have a recent date and haven't "switched" over to sponsored ads. Lately, I had been receiving messages that my postings were paused and needed to be extended or sponsored to reactivate the posting. I didn't want to have any expenses with job postings this month so I made sure they were reactivated without sponsorship.
I walked in on Monday to $200 in charges with 5 postings with budgets of $500 or more. I reached out to my account representative and was told either I changed them or someone who has access made the changes. No one else has access to the account. By viewing my history it is clear that I have never made these types of sponsorships in the past. My max is usually $100. I don't know what happened... but I do know I didn't sponsor the postings. I will no longer be posting positions to Indeed outside of my ATS.
Reviewed May 13, 2019
I posted a job and did get a good amount of candidates but they make it extremely difficult to cancel your subscription. At the end of the month I paid almost $700 only because they know how to make it look like you only pay one fee at the beginning and the final charge comes at the end with a huge bill. For people looking for a job it might be alright but for employers posting jobs I think it's a scam to squeeze out as much profit as they can.
Reviewed May 10, 2019
I posted an ad, with the expectation of being charged for a certain number of 'hits', with a $20 daily limit. I received information from about 6 people inquiring about the position. When the bill came, it was for @$500!! When I phoned, asking why it was so high - I was told there had been 126 'hits' in the time I had run the ad. I call BS & FRAUD!!!
Reviewed May 10, 2019
At first I thought that Indeed was a well priced way of advertising a job without the need to use a recruitment agency. As time went by I was charged more and more fees. I got endless pestering phone calls from their reps trying to get me to spend more money on my advertising and when I decided to close the account I couldn't. There was no option to close it myself so I had to email their customer services. They failed to close my account and continued to take money from my credit card even after the advert was closed etc. I have reported them to my credit company for fraud and have had the payments blocked. Be warned.
Reviewed May 9, 2019
When I was looking to hire, I found the Indeed Resume Subscription Service appealing. It said that you would have 30 contacts that would last for 6 months and they had a system where the contacts get refilled if the candidate responds. It was not made clear that you would need to maintain an active subscription to retain these contacts, only that monthly your contacts would renew and your unused would roll over.
The month was about to end and I had 22 contacts left so I decided I didn't need another 30 and when I cancelled it cancelled my existing contacts too. When I called them, they said, "You have to maintain an active subscription to keep the contacts you paid for." So the 6 month period was misleading because if I have an active subscription past 6 months, I would still have contacts. They also gave very poor customer service and said "Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do." The standard greedy company line! Very disappointed!
Reviewed May 9, 2019
Indeed pulled job listings from my company's website and posted them. I am being inundated with resumes from unqualified applicants and calls from employment agencies. I WOULD NEVER CONSIDER DOING BUSINESS WITH INDEED. I have called and asked them to remove the unauthorized listings from their website but the resumes just keep coming. A HUGE waste of my valuable time!
Reviewed May 8, 2019
I contacted Indeed looking for help to recruit a few candidates last month. As a first time client, I was told the basic, but not given enough information regarding how Indeed would charge me for those ads. My thought was that I was paying for clicks, and I had a daily budget that would run low within a few days. Believe me, that was not the case. After a couple of weeks I received an invoice over $500 which had been already charged to my company’s card. I called & emailed customer service, and of course they didn’t move a finger as an effort to help me. It was like speaking to the wall. It didn’t matter because they had already charged us! This was the worst experience I ever had. Before you go ahead and do business with Indeed, make sure to read their reviews and understand all the details of their scheme. This company is a fraud! Never doing business with Indeed again!
Reviewed May 8, 2019
I only gave 1 star because I had to in order to post this. I am yet another business account reviewing Indeed. My account was abruptly deactivated for no reason April 29, 2019. I contacted to appeal and spoke with Carina who told me that they needed more information about my business legal documents. HUH!!? I have been posting on Indeed for the last 3 years, so course I have those. I was told that within 24-48 hours, I would hear back from the Search Team. Never heard back so I called and then got an email that they made the decision to keep my account deactivated WITHOUT LOOKING AT MY LEGAL DOCUMENTS.
Okay, I appeal again and am now talking with Matt. He says that it may be the job description (much like the other's that I have posted over the last 3 years) and that he would look into my status. I get an email from Matt stating a lie the my job posted on Indeed asks for a fee. HUH!!!? I post jobs both on my website and on jobsites, but never the same ones on both. Our website has a position in the same department that is an affiliate marketing position that has a fee much like Avon etc. and the job on Indeed is a commission based sales position with NO FEES. AGAIN: THE POSITION ON INDEED IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT!! I call to appeal again and this time since I am wearing a 30-day Holter Monitor for my heart, I am not going to continue the emotional stress and physical stress that this experience with Indeed deactivating my account, has presented.
A few things to mention: Many of my job responses were from people who gave the same information/email responses. I hired a few people!! AND NEVER HEARD BACK FROM THEM!! Yes! There were fake job ad responders to my ads on Indeed!!! I was always happy to post there until I noticed this and wondered what was going on. My advice to any business: Post on your own website, or a few other reputable HR Hiring SaaS. The excuses Indeed gave me were the same as the ones that other's (posted below and on the BBB) were given: Random account deactivation, asking for documents, then making up their own excuse as to what they wanted to close the account for next.
I had the legal documents and they never accepted them, and my job posting on my website is different from the Indeed job as stated in the Indeed position, and I never claimed physical nexus in the locations that I posted in (yet another excuse). They wanted an excuse to close my account. Why? I was not a paying user! ;) If you own and operate a business AND are trying to focus on maintaining your health, go with a different company. Your business is about serving and providing jobs for others, if Indeed wants to waste time, don't let it be yours anymore.
Reviewed May 8, 2019
I was fine with using Indeed to find work until recently a scammer somehow managed to find my contact info (I keep my resume private) and texted me about a job, I knew it was a scam almost instantly, and didn't give out any private information but the fact that these scammers can get away with this & there's a good chance they succeed with some people & those poor people lose a lot of money or their identity, that really irritates & frustrates me. Indeed should be filtering their employers or making sure these scammers can't reach out to you. I've used other job search websites and never had a problem with this. It's only on Indeed that I run into these problems, and lately it's been discouraging me from using this website. I also don't like the idea of some random person that's scamming people having my personal contact info.
Reviewed May 8, 2019
I tried to post two jobs and both were denied. The first one was for a sales rep to work selling a home improvement branded product for Home Depot. The second one was for a part time bookkeeper. They denied the post because they said it’s a MLM business. We are licensed in 3 states and have $1,000,000 of insurance. We have never been in the MLM business. I think my company has been blackballed.
Reviewed May 7, 2019
As a job seeker, I found they continued to post positions that were no longer available, especially if you showed interest in the job by reading the description of duties. So if the employer is paying “per click“ they are making money posting jobs that have already been filled and wasting people’s valuable time as well as getting your hopes up that the position may have opened up again. It’s hard enough being unemployed. Please stop the abuse and adding insult to injury.
Reviewed May 5, 2019
Our company used indeed.com to post an employment ad. It was very expensive and felt like they used bait and switch tactics. We got three people who responded, two were not qualified and one never responded to calls for an interview. We posted the ad with our local state unemployment agency for free and began getting qualified applicants. I will never use indeed.com again. It felt like a scam.
Reviewed May 2, 2019
I want to thank Indeed for not only helping me get a great job but a career. Although it did take some time, they really did help me by sending me notifications on new job opportunities as they came in. I also liked the fact that the jobs stayed relevant to the type of career I was seeking. Me and my family truly appreciate what they are doing for me and others. Indeed has been a great resource and tool, by helping a lot of people find great jobs and careers. So thank you Indeed for helping me achieve my career goals and keep it up.
Reviewed May 2, 2019
This site always making me fool. Each and every company takes money for conducting interviews and yes when I asked this is consultancy or not, they told me, "No, no - it's direct company profile interview and you just come tomorrow on that address." But whenever I was reached then they starts ** - means taking money like ₹1500 or ₹600. If you are not able to give any person job then you will not be any right to taking money. ** job site. Worst experience ever.
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