United Rentals reviews

4.1

85% would recommend to a friend

(2,445 total reviews)
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Matthew Flannery

93% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

United Rentals has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,445 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The United Rentals 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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2K reviews
2.0
May 16, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A good name and respected in the industry. Decent fleet of equipment. Fairly good community involvement. Highly experienced qualified people who absolutely know their business.

Cons

Became highly micro managed. It seems mangements goal is to see how many hours and production they can force out of people by insisting on mandatory meetings at 6:30 am so as to not impact the business day. Mandatory Debriefing everyday at 5:30 to go over the days sales calls, asking who was seen, what was discussed and what is your plan for the next call on this customer. It got to where we were making reports about reports, meetings about reports. The paper work that had to be completed became more important than serving the customer and renting equipment. So I quit.

3.0
Jan 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent Benefits, decent pay. If you are in the rental industry UR is probably the best looking horse in the glue factory.

Cons

Almost all decision making has been stripped from branch managers and sent up the ladder. Rate approvals for BM's are narrowed down to a very narrow range. Paperwork/paperwork/paperwork. If you aspire to be a BM, be sure you like to do clerical work first, otherwise stay in sales. What have you done for me lately atmosphere.

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