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Extra Space Storage

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Extra Space Storage reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(3,422 total reviews)
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Joe Margolis

87% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Extra Space Storage has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,422 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Extra Space Storage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Jul 29, 2017

It is a job..

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great co-workers and a lot of down time to catch up on the news. Also when it is slow I have time to apply for a new job and conduct phone interviews.

Cons

Most of the time working alone and managers get all the credit for everything. Pay could be a lot better as well. I have been working here for 3 years and new hires in the same position as I get paid more than me and I have a Bachelors Degree in Business. I applied for a District Manager in Training position and I met all the qualifications in the job description but was told I have to become a manager, and training manger first. The person who ended up getting the position never worked in the storage industry before getting hired. How do they expect us to stay motivated and try to get promoted when it would take another 5 years to move up with crappy pay. You are required to do Sales, Collections, Maintenance, and clean units while trying to reach some of the ridiculous goals the company wants to you hit. They also expect employees to get Google reviews from every customer that comes into the office. If you do not reach your Google Review goal you receive and nasty-gram email from your DM. Also having split days off lowers the moral of your employees.

1.0
Jul 28, 2017

Time for some truth

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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.

4.0
Jul 24, 2017

Extra Space

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Pros

The hours are great & you get full time benefits,

Cons

Several levels of management are under paid

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