Clean Harbors reviews

3.2

52% would recommend to a friend

(2,038 total reviews)

Michael L. Battles and Eric W. Gerstenberg

55% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Clean Harbors has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,038 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Clean Harbors employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jul 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

There are some times opportunities to work overtime. Some departments get none while other departments get a lot of overtime.

Cons

There is no 401-K match. The company keeps buying up competitors on the profit on the profit they make off our labor and refuses to share any of the profits in the form of lower health care benefits and lower health care premiums. None of the different departments work together. Internal politics are killing the company. Each department is more concern with their departments profit margin. The company misses out on working more efficiently by putting every department out for their self. One department may have a lot of work, but then the company will NOT allow other employees to pick up hours working in those other departments. There is not cross training and chances to utilize their employees to the companies advantage and to the employees best potential.

1.0
Jun 22, 2017

Worst Company to Work For

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I dont know anything good that I can say this company.

Cons

The pay is horrible, you will never be appreciated. They say safety is number one but when you go to them with problems they look past it. Management doesn't care about anyone but themselves. You have no good benefits. They wont contribute to your 401k but yet they are a 2 to 5 billion company. They treat employees like garbage.

2.0
Mar 14, 2017

Biggest Problem is...

Recommend
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Pros

Few pros, maybe the money ....to a point.

Cons

Many cons. 55-60 hours a week and a sales management team that sincerely believes the $65k a year is GREAT pay for the amount of nonsense and hours they put you through. Biggest issue is that it is former truck drivers in key management positions throughout the organization. They don't take advice and believe the same "blitz" mentality from the good old days still works. Ended 401k match and pay plan changed 2-3 times per year. When management sees that commission payouts aren't trending their way and they think they are paying out to much... Boom... they keep you down financially. No problem paying themselves the big yearly bonus though. Additionally, the Sales Managers have become paper and email shufflers... job security is creating another weekly report for sales people to do. Not one time in my many years there did a sales manager visit one of my accounts on his own and actually sell something. Mind boggling. Classic management philosophy of " Ready... Fire...Aim".

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