WM reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(4,010 total reviews)
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James C. Fish, Jr

75% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

WM has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,010 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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4K reviews
2.0
Nov 21, 2017

Waste Management Employment Volatility

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, benefits, and work life balance for full-time employees at the corporate level.

Cons

Absolutely no loyalty from the company to its employees. Company routinely over hires people to routinely "transformation" and then fails to implement the transformation. Once the promised goals and profits are not realized mass layoffs ensue. Also, with executives being paid with stock options they routinely use layoffs as a way to boost the value of their options, in effect giving themselves a raise. Numerous people laid off from a profitable company, despite doing their jobs well, to facillitate executive greed. If applying for a job at their corporate headquarters talk to the vendors around the location and they will describe the employment volatility. They get distressed when many of their regular customers, every year or so, come in and eat their last lunch or make their last purchase because of WM's employment practices. Taking a job at WM can ruin your finances if you are expecting stability. Also, don't be surprised if your job is sourced to an H1B visa holder who will make substantially less than you do. They have a new CEO so maybe things will be different but I doubt it as the old CEO is still on the Board of Directors.

4.0
Sep 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Overtime Good benefits CDL opportunity Located all over the country, so if you move you can transfer Good vacation to start with you get 2 weeks after the 1st year

Cons

Can be a little disorganized Sometimes dispatch sounds like they have no clue with what they're doing. It can be a headache dealing with them because since they never drove they don't understand the situation out in the field

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