Clean Harbors reviews

3.2

53% would recommend to a friend

(584 total reviews)

Michael L. Battles and Eric W. Gerstenberg

57% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

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1.0
Oct 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Position made commission - Several coworkers were wonderful!

Cons

1. Management or lack thereof. I enjoyed working with my manager at the end but felt my concerns were never fully heard and I was not seen as the asset to the team that I was (I handled both Spanish and English sales). No opportunity for growth. I interviewed with my manager for a management position twice (once a year prior and once this current year before leaving) and she stated she “did not know I was interested in management” after being present for both of the interviews and hearing about my previous management experience. Management was very two-faced. 2. Constant change in expectations. No formal training. The position was constantly changing but the pay was not proportionate to our position. 3. The original commission plan was slashed almost in half and designed only for the top earners. 4. My original position was customer service. We combined the inside sales team with the customer service team and the training was horrendous. 5. Low call volume and outsourcing to Pune India and Bangalore. By sending some sales calls to Pune it lowered our US revenue. 6. Morale in general was low and when the manager I worked well with left (who had YEARS of experience in sales and was invaluable- I have NOTHING bad to say about her. She was great.), I decided it was time to leave as well. The management team left was all customer service management and there was nowhere to turn for any sales assistance.

2.0
Sep 26, 2025
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Pros

The work was fulfilling and colleagues were great. You get close with colleagues complaining about horrible leadership. Pay is decent.

Cons

In IT, you effectively report to "leaders" that are offshore in India. These "leaders" have a terrible ego and go out of their way to critique and criticize every action for employees that are onshore. Most likely this is due to jealousy of being unable to be in person for executive meetings. Their goal is to burn you out so you leave and they replace you with cheaper offshore talent or to have such unreasonable expectations of you they can claim you aren't meeting expectations to get rid of you that way as well. IT executives don't care about this because all of the offshore leaders are Yes men that tell them whatever they want to hear and then take it out on everyone below them. The company doesn't care about Production Support and just pressures you to meet dates for strategic projects but the dates were pulled out of thin air and no logic was used to determine the date. This is pushed and pushed to meet these dates at the expense of all of the business users who are forced to use outdated applications with years and years worth of production issues because delivering a product with 10 bugs just to meet a fake date is more important than postponing to deliver a quality product.

3.0
Sep 17, 2025

Clean Harbors

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Pros

You can make a lot of overtime like twice your salary

Cons

Sometimes it gets slow for 30 to 60 days

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