WillScot reviews

2.6

32% would recommend to a friend

(946 total reviews)
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Tim Boswell

18% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

WillScot has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 946 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The WillScot employee rating is 28% below average for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.6 stars).

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946 reviews
1.0
Jun 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

You get to meet and work with some very nice people

Cons

-Company is prejudice/racist -Supervisors have no idea what they are doing, must learn everything yourself. -End up micromanaging people that get paid more than you -Have to others how to do their roll that get paid more than you. Most of the time you will just end up doing everything for everyone else. -No bonuses -only 3% raise a year no matter how good or bad you did. -No positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement only -No company culture whatsoever -mandatory overtime -CSS roll is split into 3 tiers, Phone Representative, Work Order Representative and Billing Representative. No difference of payment between them despite MAJOR workload difference. -Never receive recognition for doing well. Coworkers and other employees will appreciate your efforts but management will turn a blind eye -CEO will rave about how well the company is doing and how they "have a surplus of money" yet they will delay everyone's raise due to the pandemic that they 100% took advantage of. -Upper management will not listen to your ideas that would be helpful to coworkers and customers. -Company has absolutely no regard for customers and will take advantage of anyone they can. -They will make you feel guilty for calling our sick or using PTO -You will barely be covered when you go on PTO and will be more stressed than before you left so might as well not go. -Workload is outrageously overwhelming -You end up doing the sales reps jobs, branch coordinators jobs and your supervisors jobs for them. -Upper management will but absolutely no effort into motivating you and will work you dry. -Empty promises of business travel, fun activities, etc. -No one goes to happy hour or lunch together -clock in and out for the day and for lunch is by the minute and you will be called out for any misses. -will be forced to do things way out of your pay grade -will be treated like a school child if you are caught on your phone, go to the bathroom too often, talk to your coworkers too much. -they will work you until you are sick -no one cleans the office so it's stuffy and gross in there. You will be perfectly fine and then walk into the office and start sneezing, coughing and sniffling -no room for growth, only more responsibilities but the same salary. -AND AS THE ONLINE JOB DESCRIPTION SAYS, "Much more!"

1.0
Jul 25, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They recently made changes to the role to make it more focused on specific tasks instead of how it previously was where you were managing and billing all of the orders for multiple branches while taking inbound calls for the entire country. 401K and Medical Benefits

Cons

In this position you are the lowest on the totem pole. This role handles some of the most important transactions of the business yet the pay is staggeringly low overall. Don’t expect to receive real raises either. The last two years there has been an excuse why this role can’t receive anything other than an inflation raise. There is also very little opportunity to advance in this department. The only real way to move up is to change departments such as sales, transportation or going to a branch. Managers and supervisors in this department are clueless and don’t actually manage their employees. There is no accountability for anything and they always have an excuse why you need to clean up other people’s mistakes. There are three shared services centers and each one is run completely different despite the constant message of “we’re all one team.” Don’t get too comfortable because this company constantly changes between mergers and acquisitions. Every so often there is a new “process” to learn with very little training. The training overall is a joke. They consider 3 - 5 days with a corporate trainer “training.” Then they just push the new hires on the current employees to shadow them so the new hires often end up extremely confused and learn the role very slowly.

1.0
Jun 25, 2018

Sales

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Monday -Friday work schedule -Benefits (although not the greatest)

Cons

Extreme Micro Managing Their "transparency" to their employees is telling them they received a $2 an hour raise while cutting their commissions over 10% in the background. In sales we make our money from our commissions. The structure has been changed numerous times in the last several years with the current structure being a massive pay cut.

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WillScot Response
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Appreciate the feedback. The Monday-Friday schedule allows for a great work life balance. With the evolution and growth of any company, change is inevitable. We are a different company then we were years ago. Through our change, we have seen fantastic YoY growth, expanded our product offerings and built a brand that people are proud to be apart of. The investments that we make in our people and development speaks to our commitment to excellence. The current commission model allows for uncapped earning potential. This is a sales role that is a "pay for performance" type model which is similar to most other professional sales environments. If you would like to discuss more in depth, please stop by my office anytime. Thanks again for your perspective.
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