Terminix reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,018 total reviews)
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Alain Moffroid

27% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Terminix has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,018 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Terminix employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Sep 29, 2013

Incredibly frustrating

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The perks were satisfactory ( company vehicle, gas card, good benefits)

Cons

You literally have to do every admin task in the company while having to juggle the demands of sales and service. The main emphasis of the training program is to get you to add to the sales quota, without preparing you to manage the service side of the business

1.0
Sep 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There were no good reasons

Cons

Terminix has the highest pest control cost and are not competitive. They give sales people unmanageable quotas. When you don't hit quote you are fired. Max employment length for new sales reps is about 6 months, never longer. Was given $400/month in fuel allowance. Drive own vehicle between MS and TN all day everyday. Not nearly enough. Commissions were only 1%. Technicians make twicw as much as sales or more....

1.0
Sep 18, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

large well organized company with a good system and a well recognized name branding amongst the industry, but suffering from obsolescence.

Cons

Poor management does not implement systems according to design, Technology is DOS based ox cart stuff from the dark ages and there's a great inequity amongst the staff to protect territory and accounts which they inherit from disgruntled employees who leave or are forced out. Successful ones there seem unhappy and are being pushed out or have quit to work for themselves or other companies and are being replaced by new lowered paid employees expected to fill their vacancy. However the new ones are not given any of their accounts left behind. These accounts are unfairly distributed amongst several favs, whose salesmanship skills are predicated on maintaining repeat business and a " Take the Order" mentality to keep things going. Their is a false light of unsustainable numbers, unrealistic goals set by managers weed out anyone who doesn't play along turning a blind eye to management's dealing of dirty seconds to his favs and dealing crap off the bottom of the deck to any real players trying to succeed. Little if no new business is being written and if so only because special pricing concessions are being giving to the fav's so they can undersell others that are held to higher standard of having to sell the same product at unreasonable higher pricing at non competitive levels to maintain managements churn and burn advocacy.

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