I worked for this temp agency a few years ago in 2011-2012 for about 2 months, where they hired me from Craigslist (I needed any job at that point while I waited for others to come through) and they paid me next to nothing ($14 hr/1099) while placing me at World Bank with about a dozen other people to deploy Windows 7 computers... To say everyone there in my situation was treated like cattle is an understatement. I never felt more exploited in my entire life, earning a very small percentage of what World bank was paying these agencies for our work...We were asked to deploy 6 machines a day where Datasol was a subcontractor for another contractor already on site.
An incident came up where I did nothing wrong but got blamed, but being the low man on the totem pole they didn't care and just moved onto the next disposable person they could find to take my place. I left some things behind at the client site, which they said they would get back to me, of course they never did... Todd Miller (who is the owner there) specifically was very combative and absolutely useless when I spoke to him over the phone. He did not care about me, my situation or anything other than his next dollar... My primary contact/recruiter was Kahti Motley.. She was professional, kind to me on the phone and did her job politely, which is about the only nice thing I can say about this place... I made some friends on the job with some of the other technicians who had DataSol as their agency as well, and not a single person could say anything good about this company.
Time has passed and I am now a decision maker in IT. Once in awhile I see DataSol's name in a few places, and I've always recommended to my colleagues and friends to use other agencies for hiring IT. I only review this place now because someone asked me about using them again last week and I told them I'd literally rather work for Mcdonald's flipping burgers than this temp agency on principle. If you are someone about to work for these people, I implore you to go to CompuCom, Smith & Keller, American Technology Services or Robert Half or just about anyone else in DC... They pay more, and they will treat you more professionally and like a person with value. read more