Republic Services reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(3,488 total reviews)
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Jon Vander Ark

72% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Republic Services has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,488 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Republic Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.8 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
May 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay was above average

Cons

You basically apologized all day for the drivers missing pickups, the phone would not stop ringing with people complaining about how bad this service was. Also billing questions about why their bill would go up by 25% 9 months after signing a 3 year contract. It's total extortion as they try to hold you to the contract. It appears that organized crime hasn't gotten to far away from the garbage business. Horrible work environment in an office for 10+ hours a day, too hot and then too cold. Not very friendly employees and the training is horrible. You will spend weeks doing online training and then 3 days in phoenix only to realize that everything you were taught was completely useless when it came to the performance of the company and it's operations staff. Way to paperwork heavy too. Still manually filling out forms and trying to figure out the right codes. You will get buried in paperwork.

4.0
Jan 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Routine schedule day in day out, full benefits and a great 401K, Free Turkey delivered on Thanksgiving, great staff, overtime all the time

Cons

Members were unhappy, coworkers nice but unhappy, frequent communication breakdowns between Operation Department and Management and the other departments. After working the for over 8 years, the company merged and my department was moved from Sun Valley to Santa Fe Springs (Whittier area). The position was too far from my residence. The 50 or more inbound calls per day were easy but the complaints never stopped and at one point I no longer believed in the company.

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