Orkin reviews

3.1

43% would recommend to a friend

(1,440 total reviews)
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Jerry Gahlhoff | Pat Chrzanowski

60% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Orkin has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,440 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Orkin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.6 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Sep 14, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working by yourself most of the day. If you are a robot that is definitely a pro!

Cons

Management seems as though they are unwilling and do not care to connect with Technicians. Either they have been off the actual job for a long time, or they have hired a new manager that has zero pest control experience and/or just blatantly do not care. No real schedule, if you have a family you had better say your good byes, you will never see them again...ever. 7:30am to 7-9pm is an average daily schedule. They will work you to death and get mad when you call out sick though technically you are human and not a robot. If you are a robot then yes, Orkin is the perfect place to work!! I am hourly, making a few dollars over minimum wage, no health care and seemingly no benefits of any kind other then having managers taking an hour out of our paychecks for lunch even when they know that there is absolutely NO time for lunch with all the jobs they give us. It is truly unacceptable to text your employee at 5:40pm on friday to tell them that they are working Saturday morning. They treat you like dirt and pay you the same way.

1.0
Feb 20, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay. Reasonable work schedule.

Cons

Petty office drama. Methods that make no sense. Absolutely zero capability to use advanced technology. Refusal to digitize things perfectly about to be digitized. Salesman favoritism. TC side would FREQUENTLY fail to complete jobs which result in CSR taking all the heat. Managers expected to be in the field so ZERO office support. Managers "in field" actually just going on 3-5 hour lunches.

1.0
May 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Exposure to high stress environment increases capacity to handle difficult situations.

Cons

I cannot stress this enough - run. If you’re even slightly considering working at this company, at any location in the south, run. You would be better working at Panda Express for the same amount of money. The work-life balance is negligible, there are pervasive issues of racism and sexism (reporting those issues doesn’t result in corrective action), micromanagement, deplorable employee engagement (during one “competition” I won expired Halloween candy and a restaurant pamphlet), and the insurance is mediocre at best.

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