Ecolab reviews

Perennially short-staffed and comically high expectations (mainly due to always being under-staffed) You will never have enough resources or training to do the job properly. Upper management knows this and continues to pile it on. Company's sole focus is creating shareholder wealth by constantly taking on new business no matter how ill prepared they are to handle additional business, and it will be at the expense of their employees' work/life balance. (which is why people move around within Ecolab quite a bit. Turn and burn mentality, but at least the opportunities to move up are always there due to this) Being completely remote, forget creating any sort of relationships with your co-workers. I met the others in my district twice in 2 years. The equipment you will be expected to manage can be burdensome if you live in an apartment or do not have exterior storage. Pay is subpar in major metropolitan areas and you will not receive a meaningful raise (hence the higher turnover). If you live in a more rural area with a low cost of living, this job could work for you for a longer period. (You'll start around $20 an hour while expected to be a food safety expert, while the non-expert part-timers at the locations you're visiting are probably making close to what you're making). Overall, I don't regret my time in this position as I learned quite a bit about the industry, but I would have to be pretty hard up to do it again.

- Extremely poor work life balance and no clear strategy to address in the future (company has been reducing head count since Covid-19 and not replacing retirements or resignations) - Poor initial training program(s) and minimal retention of 5 yr+ employees to provide on the job training to new hires - Recent reductions to commission plans, aka pay cuts (specifics differ depending on division / industry, but have been broad sweeping across the company) - Too focused on creating "share holder value" (company is too engaged in OI and GM targets to facilitate stock buy backs vs investing in its employees and R&D to foster innovation of new technologies to gain or create new market share ) - Marketing departments often provide poor outputs due to company's strategy of hiring MBAs with minimal market / industry experience vs promoting from within (have often found that a Marketer has never stepped foot in a customer's facility or has a tangible understanding of the types of problems Ecolab can solve for their customer and the value the customer receives, they simply recite what they hear in meets or read from outdated department material. Additionally, the company has lost notable talented employees because they would not promote them to marketing roles)