Clean Harbors reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(2,037 total reviews)

Michael L. Battles and Eric W. Gerstenberg

60% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Clean Harbors has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,037 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 18, 2018

McKim Madness

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There is nothing good about working here.

Cons

Everything! All senior staff run around on egg shells kissing Alan McKim's behind in hopes they won't get fired. He is a bully! Everyone runs around talking about how brilliant he is and meanwhile the only thing he's good at is stealing other people's ideas and getting naughty with his secretary!

2.0
May 28, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are great, and the culture is not stuffy due to the blue collar nature of the work.

Cons

Many of the people making decisions have been at Clean Harbors for many years and fail to either see, or accept that you can't run a company with 14k employees the same way as when it was 3k employees. People making decisions in very senior positions are not qualified to run their departments, and thus create an enormous amount of inefficiencies and inhibits one's ability to excel.

1.0
Mar 15, 2014

Worst Company on the Planet

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is NOTHING good that I can say about this company. They are AWFUL and when it comes time for a layoff...they kick people to the curb and hope the door doesn't hit them on the way out!!

Cons

Severance package - 1 week/year of service Benefits expire at midnight on the night you are laid off No outplacement assistance whatsoever Also, they discriminate against anyone over 40 years old and have officially violated the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act in their latest round of layoffs in Richardson, TX on March 6th. And quite possibly, they've violated the WARN Act as well...although one wouldn't know that because they failed to list on the OWBPA every position that was eliminated with the incumbents ages, as well as those that were retained with their ages. Sounds like leaders were trying to CYA over the discriminatory actions that were taken in the hopes that their employees weren't smart enough to know something about employment law. I suspect (and hope) that Clean Harbors gets what is coming to them...a hard learned lesson that you can't discriminate against older employees and think for one second that you're going to get away with it. This company sucks so bad and I honestly think that being part of this most recent layoff was a blessing in disguise. Who wants to be a part of a company that treats their employees who have poured their heart and soul into their work this way.

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