Allied Universal reviews

3.0

46% would recommend to a friend

(13,312 total reviews)
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Steve Jones

45% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Allied Universal has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,312 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Allied Universal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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13K reviews
3.0
Jan 20, 2022

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Pros

I originally got the job so I could study for my AFOQT’s while I worked. The good thing is you have a lot of time by yourself if you have a fire-watch or similar temporary position. (Other positions where you’re always interacting with people can be draining for some) Nice uniforms

Cons

There was no Supervisor at either of my posts. The only person I had contact to was the number to the Field Captains work phone. I’ve never met this FC ( supervisor) before but I could swear it was a different person I talked to every few months. Zer0 training aside from some videos every Security Guard has to watch because of 9/11.

2.0
Dec 22, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Get to work a job

Cons

I had an employer who sent me to sites and multiple people were quitting including myself because of poor work conditions, poor pay compared to rival companies. At this one location we were understaffed and they refused to send any additional officers since it costed more, they basically told us suck it up and work harder. 2 officers had to cover 4-5 Buildings and the exterior plus each building had 20-30 floors were we had to go up and down building to building individual floors racing to other buildings in order to help the residents in need meanwhile also securing garages which there were 3 of that had 5 floors of cars. It was an awful experince people were just worked to the brink of collapse and were taken advantage of when someone quit instead of getting a replacement we had to go 7 days a week no days off just to recover from someone quitting until the whole team had decided to quit. This company only cares about money and is really bad at caring for the employees life. I worked so much I almost crashed my car getting home from work due to working 7 days a week 12 hour shifts even though I told my manager that it was too much for me he kept me doing it until i decided to quit due to mistreatment. The only reason why I kept the job for so long was because I needed the money but I finally quit after it was destroying my mental state. The location was in Miami, florida and thats why people quit often.

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