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Care.com

2.9

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Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the world’s leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits.


care.com
Founded in 2006
Dallas, TX
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Care.com Reviews Summary

The company generally receives positive feedback for its reliable service providers and the ease of finding suitable candidates for various needs, such as pet care and housekeeping. Customers appreciate the professionalism and attentiveness of the service providers, which enhances their overall satisfaction. However, there are notable concerns regarding service reliability, with several reports of no-shows and difficulties in communication with applicants. Additionally, issues with the website's functionality and billing practices have frustrated users. Overall, while the service shows potential, improvements in communication and reliability are essential for enhancing customer experience.

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service
379
value
382
shipping
127
returns
186
quality
687
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Texas
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Unkept appaointment
April 13, 2018

I had an appointment with Jasmin for 1:15 PM today Friday the 1`3th. She did not show
So I don't think I will be using your company any longer. Unreliable personnel.

Date of experience: April 13, 2018
MemberCare -. Care.com Rep
over a year old

So sorry this happened, Frank. I suggest writing a review on Jasmin's profile to share your experience with other families who might be interested in working with her. We wish you all the best, Frank!

Indiana
1 review
11 helpful votes
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SCAM. I have nothing good to say! They make you pay to use it and you cannot do anything really. Its the most disappointing thing, all i wanted was a job to get a little extra cash and i cant even do that on here.

Date of experience: April 11, 2018
New York
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Did Something Change?
April 10, 2018

I have used Care.com for years and I have never had a problem applying for jobs until now. Now the system will not allow the prospective employers to respond to my application unless I upgrade to their monthly charge. I am allowed to apply, but once I do, the person I applied to cannot answer my note of application. I'm very disappointed that this has happened.

Date of experience: April 10, 2018
MemberCare -. Care.com Rep
over a year old

Hi Beth! Families with Premium membership are able to reply to your application if they wish to, only one party has to be a paying member in order to exchange messages on the site. Best of luck on your job search!

Wisconsin
1 review
9 helpful votes
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SCAM
April 9, 2018

Find a different company! They are happy to charge your credit, however you can't message caregiver (was looking for a tutor) and you are unable to message applicants and it took me almost a week to get in touch with "customer service". The make their phone number hard to find so you have to email - which I did, never heard back. Stay Away from this company!

Date of experience: April 9, 2018
Washington
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Do NOT use
April 8, 2018

- CHARGES sitters to apply for jobs
- Does NOT allow sitters to review parents
- Customer service is not helpful

Date of experience: April 8, 2018
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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care.com applicants
April 8, 2018

I tried a few and was unable to find the right candidate over a span of a year. Stay away if looking for help on this site. The applicants I used where incompetents. Full of it and just need jobs. I had no time for it, So frustrating. Just go to domestic agency and pay for their experience in prescreening and investigations. They know the real deal. I pay 20% hire annual salary to agencies for my people but it pays in the end. The revolving door stopped.

Date of experience: April 8, 2018
New York
1 review
14 helpful votes
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I haven't even gotten as far as some, I just love animals & wanted to HELP others with theirs and instead you CHARGE people just to APPLY? What a crock! I've been listed on Rover.com for years & never paid a dime. This is awful PR... "care.com"... really? Do you? People are out there trying to make a few extra bucks & you want to CHARGE them just to apply? That is awful. Makes me want to start a site just like yours but not charge to apply for jobs... competition is the key, right? You should be ashamed!

Date of experience: April 6, 2018
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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After almost 10 years of providing nanny services, purchased credits that did nothing more than what the basic a membership already does, having five star reviews from every family and being an exceptionally professional example for this site I am so very disappointed in their lack of care for nannies as a whole- me especially. I had a VERY BAD experience with a family who hired me and I went to the administration and received no assistance. We should be able to review families and give THEM background checks because there are psychologically disturbed parents taking advantage, not communicating, being dishonest, and have overall poor dynamics in their households. How are nannies supposed to be aware of toxic environments without proper formats to distinguish and communicate? From all of the experiences that I've had, I can give much feedback about how greatly Care.com can improve to create better dialogue and awareness for not just the employers, but especially for the caregivers coming into a new family situation. More information needs to be collected, more questions need to be asked and reviews from caregivers need to be added. I reached out to management on several occasions about real concerns (not being paid, scammed, safety issues, etc) and they do not respond with any support. Hence, I do not think they care and they definitely just want to make money.

Date of experience: April 2, 2018
Arkansas
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I am an seasoned nanny with over 10 years of experience. I have been hired through agencies that run back ground checks. I currently work part time FOR the government AT the courthouse. I have had my background check ran back and forth and up and down 100 times. Care.com does not scrutinize their background check information for accuracy. My account was flagged and removed based on a background check of another person with my same First and Last name (not middle) living in another state all the way across the country who had committed some crimes. My attempt at telling Care.com I am not the person in the background check was met with canned email responses stating the decision is final. They state they told anyone I was in contact with that I had been removed as well. This is defamation as the families I had been working with are now under the assumption that I did something wrong. Not to mention it is unnerving that they seem to just grab onto the first background check information that comes up and is kinda close. What if someone with a real background lucks out and pulls a clean record? The site sucks... use sittercity.

Date of experience: April 1, 2018
Alabama
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I'm single mom who been struggling for financial support apply for many job included care.com think while i'm waiting for some job to contact me back i have time after i drop my son school. I can clean or taking care of children or elderly. Trust and spending a big 45 dollar for membership but once nothing in 3 month for a try on get no job. They keep email me to continue pay for more money to be better membership. I dont think so. I think this website have corrected so much money from people like me.

Date of experience: March 31, 2018
Georgia
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Care.com does not allow communications when applying for positions unless continual upgrade fees are paid. Seems to be a large amount of misrepresentation of what Care.com truly offers to all clients.

Date of experience: March 29, 2018
Texas
1 review
11 helpful votes
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This site is constantly targeted by hackers, I have reported it to the company and was removed, they don't like critiques, wonder why? Now fellow Jobseekers and Victims, why don't we ALL get together and do something about that, File a lawsuit against them for theft, misrepresentation, etc. With all of us against them, how can we loose. Complaining is one thing, it wont give us back our money or our jobs, what they are doing cant be legal, and to kick people off their site without any legal reason is against our constitution, because its keeping us from getting a job. If a legal firm can be found that will file a major Lawsuit against them, we can all contribute money to pay for it, but I believe the right attorney will take this case, and we can pay him from the proceeds, it should be possible to find a good lawfirm, what about that lawfirm that suit WELLS FARGO, that is the kind of Legal help we need. Come on lets get them, There is a young lady already looking into this this is America, we only have to stand together and fight, so no one else will have to put up with their malpractices. Talk wont do nothing its Time for action.

Date of experience: March 26, 2018
Massachusetts
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Its just a scam
March 25, 2018

Save your time and money. This company is just there to rip you off, nothing more.
They will keep charging your card with no obvious service.

Date of experience: March 24, 2018
GB
1 review
8 helpful votes
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At no time are you advised the monthly premium is not a one off. You are advised to cancel your subscription but there is no way to do this on the account settings - I find this dishonest. The terms state you will receive email updates etc - I have had no contact since Sept 2017 and have been charged £49.00 per month for NO SERVICE at all. I am going to trading standards right away as this stinks -they do not return calls. The company directors are all in the USA from companies house information & linkedIn accounts suggest they are aiming for a global market. They have a noted registered address in London, NW1 3ER (probably their accountants) but there appears to be no base in the UK in case you need to get hold of anyone! I am fuming that I have been relieved of £294.00

Date of experience: March 22, 2018
Tennessee
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Buyer beware!
March 22, 2018

Nowhere was I told that there would be a $2500 fee for recommended senior living locations. Not on the website, not in the terms of use and not by the employee who called me on the phone. It is a scam.

Date of experience: March 22, 2018
North Carolina
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Scam Artists
March 20, 2018

Buyer be warned! They don't tell you that the cost of service is a recurring fee and then you can't get out of it. It's also very hard to find their phone number. When you do get in touch with them they tell you you're wrong and you can't get a refund. They are a terrible company... cheating people and taking advantage of everyone. Forget it!

Date of experience: March 20, 2018
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Wow, what a messed up company. I joined and entered an JOB posting for my elderly mother. After 3 weeks of no responses I noticed the posting was still "PENDING". So I contacted customer support which finally approved it. I then told them that my membership was expiring in a week and I expected it to be extended because they took so long to approve my job. After they refused to do this, I responded back that I would be disputing the charge with VISA.

In the meantime I started interviewing a number of caregivers that responded. And mid-way through the process... Care.com just deleted my account without warning. I guess because they were butthurt I was going to contact VISA. The whole experience was ridiculous and not sure how they are still in business doing things like this.

Date of experience: March 20, 2018
Texas
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Don't Do It!
March 15, 2018

Buyer Be Warned. Once you sign up to this site you will NOT be able to get a refund for any reason and you CANNOT delete your credit card information or personal information. Once you do a search the only way you can get more information about the candidate is to pay them. Once you pay them, you still don't get to call them or even give them your phone number. It will be blocked! Try to run a background check even after signing up and paying more and that won't work either. Try to do a search for a specific person and you get everyone. Try to tell them about your problems and they just remind you there are no refunds. This company has one goal. Get you to sign up and pay for as much as possible and take your money. I gave them over a $100 and got nothing in return. Nada, Zilch, Zippo! Total scam artist!

Date of experience: March 15, 2018
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I believe this company is a total scam who invent jobs / vacancies and in some cases pose as the potential employer or employee themselves to make you think that the service is genuine. I signed up for this service and paid for 25 'credits' for £19.00. Each 'vacancy' that I applied for cost me 3 credits - and to attach a personal message, another credit was required. As soon as I had joined, the 'perfect vacancy' appeared so I applied and entered into a wonderful 'conversation' with the potential employer. It seemed we were perfect for each other and neither could believe our luck at finding each other. My 'luck' however turned out to be too good to be true. As soon as I tried to arrange a meeting, and passed over my mobile number, this 'employer' ceased all contact, without informing me of her address or contact number (of course!) I found this really odd so complained to Care.Com and made my suspicions known about the 'employer' being fictitious as it had all seemed to perfect to be true. I was assured that there was nothing fictitious about Care.Com (of course) and they then said that they were going to intervene and contact this 'employer' to ask them to get in touch (which again I found really strange). Surprise, surprise, I then got a reply almost immediately from this fictitious employer, apologising and suggesting again that we meet. Again, this was the last I heard. I then continued to use up the rest of my credits applying for very local 'vacancies' that I would have been ideal for but heard nothing. What a waste of time, effort and money.

Date of experience: March 14, 2018
Hawaii
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This company only cares about making money off of parents and sitters, alike. I've sent over 100 messages to different job postings and have gotten about 4 back and zero jobs. This is because parents can't see my messages until they pay for premium. I've paid and they also charged me for a background check that I didn't want. Very disappointing. Go to sittercity and urbansitter instead.

Date of experience: March 13, 2018