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      First Student

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      First Student reviews

      3.7

      69% would recommend to a friend

      (3,734 total reviews)

      John Kenning

      72% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

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      First Student has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,734 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Student 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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      4K reviews
      1.0
      Jul 21, 2017

      Great job, bad company

      School bus driver
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Paid weekly, nice co-workers (for the most part), co-workers care a lot.

      Cons

      Horrible management (We don't do it unless it's safe....or it costs any money - we don't do it then, either), unsustainable business model (they lowball to get contracts with schools and when it's time to renew, they give a realistic cost and lose the contract), benefits are horrible and expensive for workers, high turnover, fairly unprofessional attitudes, cheap, cheap, cheap.

      2.0
      Jul 19, 2017

      First student is greedy

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent pay, you get summers off

      Cons

      Bad students, our location manager is awesome but higher up corporate is greedy, very little employee appreciation, no bonus for safety or anything.

      1.0
      Jul 18, 2017

      Do Not Go There!

      Bus driver
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      When I worked there the management was the BIG problem and they are still under the same management...The employees were like family (there were about 120 of us) Safety Training was absolutely TOP NOTCH but not now. The drivers now do not drop the students off safely and they seem to not have been trained well at all. I work for another company and I see the unsafe things that they do these days and I fear for the safety of the children. Don't Go There!

      Cons

      See Above sorry I did not separate my pros and cons...No Benefits, they will not let you take time off for personal things such as the Dr. and such, they think that you are unimportant as well as your kids and the gentleman that owns this company meant for his company to be "FAMILY ORIENTED".

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