Republic Services reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(3,489 total reviews)
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Jon Vander Ark

72% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Republic Services has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,489 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Republic Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.8 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Jun 7, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Those who are good at sales can achieve sales goals on a pretty generous commission plan. A lot of autonomy and freedom over pricing, sales and scheduling of most daily activities.

Cons

Company lacks organization and defined direction. Leaders do not take insight from their employees. Employees must be yes men. Not a lot of attractive advancement opportunities. Office is divided into a class system. Office personnel>Sales>Operations and it is made quite obvious.

4.0
May 31, 2012

Very Good experience at all levels of management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great benefits,people, and exposure to the waste industry

Cons

very large company sometimes takes long to make decisions

4.0
May 13, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is plenty of space to operate as you see fit with limited oversight other than results, but that may not apply to all divisions, areas, regions. There is good opportunity to sell as everyone needs the service.

Cons

The market has recently been experiencing a price war and it is sometimes hard to sell uniqueness. The industry is also littered with brokers that are mostly parasites and rarely if ever, bring value. There are also plenty of industry castoffs that pop up in various ne places and try to pass themselves off as experts, especially in new "green" technologies that are usually not sustainable of viable solutions, just repackaged junk. The problem is that many corporate, larger companies are suckers for bogus "green" initiatives and sometimes buy into the myth of new so called solutions.

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