Essendant reviews

2.8

31% would recommend to a friend

(507 total reviews)
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Dave Rickard

22% approve of CEO

15% positive business outlook

Essendant has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 507 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Essendant employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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507 reviews
2.0
Nov 15, 2023

Bad vibes

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Pros

They have decent pay and benefits and work from home for certain employees. The company is trying to pivot from only selling their own contracts since office supply and janitorial materials has not proven as successful as it was in the past...but the pivot has proven to be difficult.

Cons

Culture is cut-throath due to the company not being resilient: -Every year managers and employees get laidoff due to overall financial performance -A lot of backstabbing b/c of anxiousness around projects and personal performance reviews, which is done at a quarterly basis. -They're owned by Sycamore Partners which does not have a great reputation. Look them up, they try to flip investments and do not have a great track record.

1.0
Jan 9, 2023

Project management

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Pros

Hybrid, local, diverse, right off highway

Cons

Worst company I’ve ever worked for. They told me I’d be fully remote when I accepted the offer and changed hybrid later on. There’s no such thing as confidentiality. Managers openly shared incomes of other employees as well as raises. It’s full of lies! AND, your assigned one supplier and that supplier pays your income (basically), but behind the scenes you’re expected to juggle and fully manage about 10 other suppliers. The training… let’s just say there was none whatsoever.

1.0
Apr 29, 2022
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Pros

I had an amazing Manager and team.

Cons

This is not all the cons by far, but the important ones: - Commonly expected to work 70 hour work weeks - They cap the raise you get for internal promotions. 10% is a miracle, so don't take a lower level job to get your foot in the door, you will get hosed on pay - They didn't back fill my old position as per our agreement when I took my promotion. I was expected to do both roles without additional compensation - They do not care about the people that work there. You are truly like toilet paper, meant to be used and when empty, discarded and replaced - They allow retaliation firings to happen instead of protecting people that file sexual harassment claims (not me, several incidents though) - They often give the alphabets raises, but cut positions lower down - Senior leadership only cares about the financial overlords, not what is best for their customers or their employees

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