TruGreen reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(2,985 total reviews)
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Kurt Kane

68% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

TruGreen has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,985 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The TruGreen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal Consumer Services industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Jul 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The gm had a lot of experience and knowledge in lawn care, I had two different sales managers that were both cool to work with. My base pay was $500 a week plus commission and you are reimbursed for fuel mileage every week.

Cons

Commission started when you reached $1,500 in sales a week, so if you had a bad week the pay was horrible! In the spring you get an assigned route every day which is programed in your phone, i had to be at my route knocking on doors by 11am and you would knock till dusk and then return to the office to turn in your sales for the day. Some days were good, some were bad. We would do a lot of roll play training in the office working on sale pitches and different circumstances you will run into in the field. In the summer the sales switched to tree and shrub sales where they would print out leads of current lawn customers and you would try and sell them that service telling people their landscape was infested with bugs even if it wasn't, we would pre fill our paperwork the night before and go around peoples properties ripping leaves off trees and bushes putting them in sample bags trying to manipulate them in to buying the service! You would then return to the office and call the home owners at the properties you were at earlier that day and explain what you found and try to push them to buy, if they didn't answer we would keep calling and calling which was ridiculous, we would call through our stack constantly even if they were on the do not call list. All this company wants is money, they are very pushy so if you have lawn service be prepared to get called constantly with somebody trying to upsell something else, it doesn't stop! I strongly recommend working for a different company, and if you want lawncare use a local company or do it yourself, the technitions only work 4 days a week and they fly from house to house spraying as quick as they can because they want them doing 30-40 yards a day

2.0
Jul 17, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

You can make decent money at this job . If you sacrifice you can move up the ladder pretty fast.

Cons

The company goes out of the way to make the lives of the sales representatives a living nightmare. 7-8 hours a day in 100 degree weather. I was instructed by upper management to threaten jobs for taking extra 5 min break in the extreme heat. Whenever a sales rep is not doing good all upper management to device is to "make it more painful". The career advancements are very good I was also instructed to make empty promises many times to salesman. The hours are Monday through Friday 7:10 AM to 8 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 3 PM. So as you read this you may be saying oh well it's easy to sell turn right it is very easy to sell if you do not mind lying to people and providing no customer service I challenge you to go on to Google read the reviews of Trugreen service you have reached your dad and ask yourself if you can sell the product.

3.0
Jun 9, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Get to be outdoors, Meet people. Sales Contests. Money is ok in spring season. That's all I got to say Not to many more pro's in mu opinion.

Cons

Long hours of knocking doors with no one at home. Calling numbers that have been called 50 times before you call them. Good lead numbers are given to top performers as opposed to the people low on the board.ie: sales managers buddies. Definitely not a level playing field. Certainly not a position if you are looking for long term employment. Once spring season is over. They start a performance paper trail so they have a reason to let you go.

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