Big company that's not going anywhere...which is good and bad - Sales Representative Republic Services Employee Review

3.0
Apr 9, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Generally speaking, it's remarkably tough to get fired and if they think you're talented enough, they'll try to find a place you fit in even if you are not successful with the job they hired you to do. They focus on promoting from within first, which is good and bad. Bad if you're not yet with the company, but good once you're there.

Cons

Plenty of red tape as a large, publicly traded company in an industry that's had it's run-in's with the anti-trust folks. Things tend to move very slowly and there's often many rules and ways of doing things that don't really make sense, but that's the way the rules are and not many feel confident enough to rock the boat and persistently ask why.

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Cons

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Pros

We used to have to come in every morning and stay in the office for at least an hour, then go out into the field, come back at least an hour before 5pm and stay in the office. They changed it so we only have to come in in the morning and it's so much nicer.

Cons

I really didn't get along with the sales manager. On my first day, the manager who hired me announced he was leaving. About two weeks into my employment, the new sales manager wanted to make crazy changes to show his authority. It went downhill from there. He made major cutbacks and the things he kept where supposed to be thought of as gifts, such as bottled water.

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