Radius Recycling reviews

2.8

37% would recommend to a friend

(325 total reviews)
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Tamara L. Lundgren

36% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Radius Recycling has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 325 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Radius Recycling employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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325 reviews
1.0
May 28, 2015

Going Down

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun place to work, for a while anyway. Pay was great, people were better. Enjoyed the customer interaction.

Cons

Price of scrap dropping caused everything to plummet. So many layoffs that it became a pretty depressing place to work. Lots of empty promises. So much money wasted on perks that they have to take money out of employees pockets.

1.0
May 23, 2015

Clean house starting at the top

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The yard is centrally located and it is easy to get to and from work. Also, they usually provide you with a hard hat and a vest for free.

Cons

Whoever has the job to reply to the Schnitzer Steel comments must be bored out of his mind! Constant reply to contact HR Business Partner is hilarious. Easy to say at corporate skyscraper but in yards we distrust our HR Business Partner more than any one in the whole yard. Tell him about problems or safety risks and we’ll likely be fired soon.. Many posts said to review other comments and I listened b/c job searchers need good comments from people who work at the yard 1. After all the reviews on this site it would seem it's your own fault for deciding to work there, putting up with the ridiculous hours, lack of support and disrespectful environment only to be shown the door. 2. Do your underlings a favor and either quit or retire. Please. Chairman of the board. 3. It's not what you know, it's who you know. A toxic environment that thrives on using fear tactics and intimedation. 4. There is simply no direction from the top at MRB. They are all long time buddies sitting on top of their thrones doing nothing. 5. TO THE BOARD OF DINOSAURS: Like Mr. Potter in the movie, "It's a wonderful life." As crooked as you are, your employees will find a way succeed no matter how much you steal from them. 6. If this is how you want to run your business, fine. But you need to understand that if you don't treat people with respect and kindness, then all the respectful and kind people will leave and you will be left with a quagmire of unhappy people, motivated by fear mongering.

2.0
May 20, 2015

Miss Management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Yes they do advance you up the ladder and put you onto different machines with some training, and there may or may not be a bonus for all the work you do. Limited advancement but there is some.

Cons

As echoed in a lot of reviews , management takes a one day course on how to manage the employees and relies on ongoing experience to continue the education. This is stupid. Advancement depends a lot on whose buddy you are. I am fine with being laid off however the lower seniority people making far less retain their jobs and they have far less safety and diligence in doing the work and will have a stronger chance of being injured. Just an accident waiting to happen. Not a healthy place to work. Too much talk of safety and slowing down and non verbal communication that contradicts what you are told. Bottom line : not a safe work environment , and stress levels are high.

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