I'll see that one and raise you a match last night where a level 5 player in a stock Assault (with a 250 ping) came out with 2524 points, 57 kills and 1 death in a match that scrimbot said was and srd of 1450-1950. I saw no sign of cheating... just a lot of bragging about how his "team was useless - good thing I was here."
BUT BACK TO THE OP's QUESTION:
This is probably too soon to develop any opinions about Hawken, especially when relating to team balancing. A whole new company owns Hawken now and a new development team is forming as I type. The problems with team balance and matchmaking are due to the system Hawken uses was designed for having several thousand players online all the time. Without those numbers, matches start with only 4 - 5 players all the time and the people who join a match after that are being put on the team with the fewest players or the team that's losing, regardless of their skill level - and that's OK... when you have more players and matches that start mostly full (w/ 9 to 11 players).
If it's frustrating you enough to ruin the enjoyment, it's probably best to put Hawken away until around the middle of next year and then come back to big changes and more players. :)