Orkin reviews

3.0

41% would recommend to a friend

(1,441 total reviews)
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Jerry Gahlhoff | Pat Chrzanowski

53% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Orkin has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,441 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average 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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5.0
Mar 14, 2018

a very great company to work for.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

salary is by far the best

Cons

long hours and seasonal demands

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We are happy to have you as an employee! We appreciate all the hard work !!
2.0
Mar 8, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Technical training is great, sales training was ok but not great since you don't learn how to fill out correct agreements which can hinder your sales.

Cons

Constant pressure to schedule appointments with these list that are not updated. Use to work for a competitor and they had schedulers who made regular appointments and reinspections all we had to do is go run the appointments. Here at Orkin so much focus is on calling these customers I don't feel we get enough selling time because we end up on the phone all day calling hustling for appointments. I feel they need to update the sales process and not rely so much to the inspector.

1.0
Mar 2, 2018

Micro-management at it’s finest

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Pros

Company car, gas card, phone and iPad are given to you. They’re used and in bad shape, but you can use them.

Cons

You feel like someone is always watching you. Every step of the process is questioned, if not from management, then from the CSS’s. Questions come even if the person has been on the job for several years. Your GPS is monitored and brought up during check-ins. There have been times where management has looked the other way when work has been done poorly on a sold job in the field, but question why you were only at a house for 15 minutes. Management wonders why you have no appointments scheduled even though you make a serious effort to call and set up reinspections. They don’t want to hear reality for why there are no appointments and seem to encourage us to do inspections to make their numbers. There’s a lot more examples I can describe but don’t have the time. I would not recommend this company to my worst enemy.

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