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Extra Space Storage

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Extra Space Storage reviews

4.2

83% would recommend to a friend

(3,398 total reviews)
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Joe Margolis

88% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Extra Space Storage has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,398 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Extra Space Storage employee rating is 21% above average for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Sep 26, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are no pros to this company. Run, just run!

Cons

This company has a contest for reviews and will send you a gift card if your name is drawn. Most of the positive reviews are either upper management posting fake reviews or they are from a contest from.employees trying to win a gift card. The CEO/ Comapany had a contest to win a gift card for any of the awards this company has won. Sure you'll get positive reviews if you are offering free money. You can take it for what you want. Most of the reviews here are fake. The company is full of drama and favoritism. You will not promote unless you are in the DM's group of favorites. The company has very high turn over. This includes upper management all the way down to the bottom. We receive emails almost weekly of all the people who have left the company. The list is usually 8 people in the upper management level. Upper management is excessive. All over paid. Especially the CEO. Way over paid

3.0
Feb 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

9:30-6pm work day Guaranteed 2 days off Easy work when you have 2 people Each day is basically the same No long lines or super busy days Lots of time to talk with fellow team members and guests

Cons

The rating above is BS we are asked by the company to do reveiws annually to improve our rating here! Promotions or Growth opportunities given based on how long you’ve worked here, not because of your ability. Company not hiring staff effectively. Important Emails and Texts ignored. Sometimes you need help NOW but left to just figure it out for yourself. Training program Sucks Most managers in Richmond shouldn't have jobs, yet we won’t hire new people. (As if we have some sort of high standards) Scheduling: Many are with little or no help while some stores have people getting paid to sit and talk to each other. We could simply split the staff across the district and fix staffing issues No staff

1.0
Jul 28, 2017

Time for some truth

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will see plenty of "pros" to working with this company as they require their new employees to come onto this website and review them. And who would be stupid enough to say anything bad. So now that I am not employed with them let's just skip to the cons....

Cons

They work you like a dog and I literally mean a dog. We were taken over by them in August and were told we had 2 weeks to clean all units to their standards. So in the dead heat of summer they expected me to clean 140 vacant units within 2 weeks. I mean clean as in sweep out unit, clean back of the door, bush down the dust on the walls, microfiber rag the walls with a cleaner, spray pesticide and vacuum out the corners of the unit. That was just the beginning they had ridiculous goals that I didn't think could get any worse until 2017 hit and they require you to now get 90% of your new rentals with insurance. So 1 out of every 10 people could opt out of insurance for you to meet your goal. Not to mention you are required to get 4 Google reviews a month; people honestly panic over not having enough and then try to get each other or friends to post fake reviews for them. The company grooms you to speak a specific way to deceive your customers. Then they force you to force the brand new customer to give you a Google review before you can leave the office. The DM told me to send them the link to their phone then ask if they did it yet. If not then I was to say well go ahead and do it then once your done I'll take you outside to your unit. The DM has favorites and you can definitely tell. He treats people completely different depending on whether or not he likes you. The DM's will promise you growth in the company but then guess what, they also promised that same position to 3 other people! When I address the issue I am then told that anyone can go through training but not everyone's going to make it (a perfect example of the deceiving talk they try to teach you). Speaking of training they dont tell you until your on but you'll have to go through Extra Space University which will consist of weeks of going through online schooling, tests, check ups from your team leads and a paper or two before its all said and done. I think worst of all was that my assistant was making almost as much money as I was and with his mileage he was getting more! Yet some how I was at the cap of a managers pay and I would need to move up to get more money; but that job was hard to move up to when 3 other seniored ES employees had already been told they were next in line. I have worked for quite a few storage companies over the years and this is by far the worst one I have ever been a apart of. I am just thankful to be out of there and onto a better company.

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