Stericycle reviews

3.1

44% would recommend to a friend

(2,223 total reviews)
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Cindy Miller

46% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Stericycle has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,223 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Stericycle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Nov 6, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great Health Care, 401K, and other fortune 500 standard benefits for their employee's, they don't hire recent college grads, has an older corporate culture. It's an ok, place to work but, could be a much better place if they listen to their employee's rather than buying companies -which past employee's have formed or have grown, thus the great stock growth.

Cons

below pay averages for drivers and sales, capped commissions for sales - they want to hire Medical Sales talent at 50K a year- A sales rep can't make more than 80K total compensation. Management doesn't listen to employee's advise when it comes to market trends or business opportunities. Some middle managers have a "Fogettabout it or Soparno" past in the waste industries or no understanding of the complex industry, we are in. Sales Cycle is a lengthy one that takes 12 to 18 months for a deal to close. Biggest issues outside of low pay is that you have no customer service support, billing issue are out of control and customer are irrate about this situation. To have any changes to a customer you have to submit a ream of paper work to home office versus, having a strong backend support. If your a female like me or have some color in you, you will not be in middle or upper management in this organization. A couple of the middle managers tend to be abit rogue and rough to their employee's. Company has a big team apporoach and it can work with some but, it can be hard with other members of the team. Recently they had an employee survey and they wanted feedback but, you had to give your Social Security.. if you like to be Micro manage then it's a great fit but, they need to realize that their employee are an asset and they need to develop them , enpower them, and most of all trust them.

2.0
Jul 8, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Commissions are good if you even make it that far.

Cons

Where do I start? This is an extremely high pressure sales job. You are pretty much tricking customers into signing a long-term contract for more money with almost no incentive or added service. Extreme favoritism by upper management for certain employees. Dishonesty of upper management. People have gotten screwed out of money on their commission checks. Seasoned reps receive 3 times as many leads and are basically guaranteed commission without doing much work. You are taught to basically lie to customers regarding the price of their services. Extremely unethical pricing and very price discriminating.

1.0
Jun 28, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Wow, I actually need to think pretty hard about this one. Has potential to be a good company to work at but, the infinite negatives would need to be fixed.

Cons

It’s hilarious that there are people that have posted Stericycle is a good place to work. It’s SO transparent that it’s a company higher-up trying to do damage control. Stericycle’s arrogance is its downfall. Stericycle takes advantage of its size and market share to bully its customers no matter of the size of the company or the state of the economy. I’ve said hello to the vp of the small quantity division probably 100 times while I worked there and most of the time he would just walk right past me, nose in the air. You are constantly afraid for your job and the turn over is unbelievably high. Nepotism is rampant and egos are very high. The higher-ups have no clue of the lack of morals in many of the sales reps and unscrupulous deals they sell. As long as the goals are met that is all that counts. I could go on and on.

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