Republic Services Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Republic Services?

"The pay"

What don't you like about working at Republic Services?

"The long hours."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"lighten the work load."

"Fair and balanced"

What do you like about working at Republic Services?

"Managing the relationships with my customers and helping them take care of there waste needs. Also negotiating and extending there contracts."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you can negotiate contracts with owners."

What don't you like about working at Republic Services?

"Being responsible for drivers and not having any control."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make the commission process easier, it takes 3 days."

"less than glowing"

What do you like about working at Republic Services?

"its busy work"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"its all about perception..."

What don't you like about working at Republic Services?

"since the merger, the company has lost intrest in the employee. questions sent to corporate often go days without resolution and there is no local level decision making. there is the mentality of its about what corporate wants not about what makes sense."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"go to the worker bee's and listen. Too many policies without thinking them thru to the end results. The 30 second ad time to answer the phone is over the top. Too much mission statement and not enough personal touch. People still want personal contact, not deal with a drone."

"Typical life in a company that's undergone a recent merger."

What do you like about working at Republic Services?

"They have a clear vision on where they want to go in the future."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be careful. Two reductions in force in 2009. Make sure the job is here for the long term."

What don't you like about working at Republic Services?

"They're focused on short term success at the expense of long term results."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Balance, Balance, Balance....."

"Great!"

What do you like about working at Republic Services?

"The freedom of expression."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know your numbers.."

What don't you like about working at Republic Services?

"Nothing, it was great!"

What don't you like about working at Republic Services?

"Extra pressure for completing job due to inadiquate man power"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Budget for more better trained employees"

"If you do not value yourself at all, want to waste your time NOT learning any new skills that can be utilized at the next level or if you want to work for a company that does NOT value their employees or their customers, then sign yourself right up. Constant price increases on accounts, even if there are contracts in place with set pricing, not being paid on time, having to recite a foolish script every time you visit a customer while your ride along, a do nothing all day Supervisor, monitors you like a child, being told that your commission structure will completely change 9 months ago and are still in limbo on how you will be paid going forward, like non communication between departments, with local or area management and enjoy a company where you have no control over if you lose an account or not, then this place is for you. Being successful here is a joke and and the lack of opportunity is staggering. Just because you are a publicly traded company DOES NOT necessarily make you a good company. Wall Street, shareholders and sucking up to management is the culture bread here. While trash and recycling services are needed in our society, it is truly an unrewarding and thankless industry that virtually every customer you have hates you because the driver, helpers, customer service department do not have the the common sense to do the right thing in the time of uncertainty. Oh, wait, that is one of their mantras. Doing what is right by the customer in the time of indecision. I have been in the work force a long time and have been very successful. I have a family to take care of. This place, people, is not the answer to having a promising career in Sales. Good luck!"

"No work life balance, horrible management"

"I'm not a proponent of the company at all. They do not encourage promotion from within, have limited interest in the employee goals and development. The hours are long with no written time frames for work/life balance. Additionally, the onboarding process is very vague with limited interaction with leadership. Overall, it's been a very bad experience."

"Corporate allocates 2-2.25% per department for performance reviews. No cost of living assessments. Therefore, every year you stay, you lose money as COLA in AZ is upwards of 2.5% a year. No promotion path No incentive bonuses"

"I've worked for Republic for 4 years. This is not the place to work if you expect training or if you're looking to move up in the company. The culture is cold and collaboration is generally frowned upon."

"Support desk relies primarily on contracts assigned to no-term contacts. There seems to be a revolving door of employment and leaves little room for advancement. Job is heavily 'numbers-based' and based on total number of interactions instead of actual performance. A good place to start out but not a long term career."

"Basic position as a scale operator. Not very good communication throughout the company, if there was better communication then there may be less frustration."

"Republic Services has attempted to centralize Customer Service in 3 large regional Customer Resource Centers (CRC): Charlotte NC, Indianapolis IN, and Chandler AZ. So far this massive change in structure has been a disaster and the so-called managers running the Chandler CRC do not have a clue how to actually provide effective customer service; they are only focused on meeting some arbitrary 'production' number to beat the other 2 CRC's. The computer systems are still in early stages of development/use and the tools used by the representatives are cumbersome and often do not work or are wrong. The performance expectations of both the workers and the supervisors are unrealistic considering the total lack of support provided to the staff."

"Working at this company has been a new experience for me and I have learned a lot about the waste services industry."