Orkin reviews

3.0

41% would recommend to a friend

(1,444 total reviews)
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Jerry Gahlhoff | Pat Chrzanowski

53% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Orkin has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,444 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Orkin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Dec 16, 2018

Pest Tech

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is good. The job is stable. The work is easy. Once your route is dialed in you get to your first stop around 8 AM and work until around sundown. Pay is 15-20% commission. You can get sales commission on top. Most techs make around $4k a month pretty easily. If you are the kind of person that can keep your morale up despite the office and management making a mess around you, its a really steady well paying job.

Cons

The call center is the number one problem. Sometimes a customer will call, get scheduled by the main office, rescheduled by your branch, then rescheduled by you or a manager. There are a lot of hours of work in the week, and then more unpaid hours chasing leads, maintaining trucks, and if you get a route that is far from your current location you do a lot of driving for free. They also make you use a really terrible app, and have no streamlined office system. You need to remember multiple passwords, logins, and apps. The app itself really doesn't work right. I had weeks where I was scheduled to work Xmas eve and my birthday, but had 0 stops on four different days in the week with no explanation. Ultimately I couldn't handle how the office was ran.

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Orkin Response
7y
Thank you for providing us with some feedback. As a Company, we are continuously evaluating new technology to help improve the organization.
2.0
Dec 15, 2018

Termite Inspector

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Car, Phone, Gas Card, and benefits with time off, I had a great branch manager but he was one of the very few that wasn't full of bs.

Cons

Pay, very seasonal, barely any leads provided, Don't truly care unless your a big shot, misleading when they hire you, high turn over rate,

2.0
Dec 5, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company car cell phone iPad. The job is not very tough inspected for termites

Cons

Training could be better

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Orkin Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to give us some feedback. We are always looking to improve ourselves. We encourage you to reach out to your Division HR Director and share your thoughts on how we can make sure that you feel like you are being adequately trained.
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