Securitas Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Never got schedule sent for site, problems with management, lied to employees"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"Uniforms were free, unity among officers was good, duties were fairly simple. Pay is low, but always depends on site and number of duties."

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

"Interviews were laughable. They put all of us in a room and said we were hired and immediately did the training. If someone is looking for a career in security, do not go to this company. My site went through numerous guards and only one was fired with justifiable cause (he fell asleep) and there is almost no communication between management and employees. If someone is looking for a short time position, while looking for another job, this is fine, but other than that it is not a place one would want to start a career."

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"Virtually no communication between management and employees, no schedule was ever sent to my site in 9 months, thus it was a constant chore to make sure someone didn't miss work and get in trouble, overtime was pretty much mandatory (you couldn't say no if they needed someone) If guard on next shift failed to show up previous guard had to cover (which is fine except we did 12 shifts) and worst of all there was constant lying from management and they would not investigate any claim and would just fire guards for A SINGLE complaint, whether it was a real complaint or not. They actually would lie to other guards whenever they abruptly fired someone and say that they quit. Job security is nil and it is not a great place to look to having a career. Retaliation also occurred due to screwups by the company, like say a schedule was not sent and they intended to switch around shifts that week. This happened twice and both times our site supervisor at the place said it was not our fault, yet Securitas retaliated against all of the guards by changing all of their shifts for a couple weeks, or sent them to sites 2 hours away when they never went that far. Talk to any guard that has been there awhile and they will speak of the company as not caring about its employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"DO NOT LIE TO YOUR EMPLOYEES ON A REGULAR BASIS!!!! Also, communication is the biggest ongoing problem. There is also constant fear from guards of losing their jobs due to the one complaint policy, which makes it seem like the company will not fairly treat their worker and any complaint is held against everyone."

"Security is a euphamism for warm body in uniform"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"Variety of customers and unique needs from Port security to high-rise safety"

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

"Dress for success, take 3 customers to lunch each week, keep in touch with customers and personnel"

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"common bonus by region- if region doesn't make goal- no one gets paid their bonus, regardless of their individual contribution."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide more training for Guards, increase Guard's wages, reduce corporate operating overhead"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"I really liked their uniforms and pay rate is fair."

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

"If there is one piece of advice I would give someone interviewing at this employer be making sure to ask a post where you can work alone."

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"Something not so good about the work place can be verbal harassment and racial discrimination."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If I was running the show, I would be fairly with work schedule hours and treat all employees as a team equally."

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"The BM I worked for was a great team player who was always teaching and learning. He became a mentor for me."

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

"Becareful who you talk to and what you say. The place is one giant rumor mill."

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"If you make a mistake and the Area V.P. finds out about it and doesn't agree with your answer to why it happened he will make life hell and will hold a grudge"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get new management at the top. The moral in the company was very low."

"working during a buyout and was downsized for politics"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"meeting new officers and training them during the shift SOP"

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

"long hours and work weekends is their standard working hours low pay"

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"during the buyout Pinkerton officers were let go and downgrade not buy experiences"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"use trained officers to their fullness and certifications OPOTTA for one"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"Working with various clients to ensure safety of property and personnel"

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

"Be eager to perform; good work practices pay off not only monetarily"

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"With advanced training more need at various times limits free time to unwind"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"An increase of personnel at site locations as assistance when needed."

"great"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"great company postive out look on a lot of things"

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

"no tips I learned alot from working with this wnderful team"

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"the comanoy was good I had no complaints or dislikes"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"the managment team was just great and cool to work with"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"I was not armed. I worked with 5150 patients and didn't feel it was for me anymore. Looking to try something new."

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

"Don't go in thinking your going to get respected. You on the bottom of the food chain."

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"I didn't like the favoritism and lack of trust that I felt."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"no, just a little more by the book. Too many people were playing favorites."

"Good people, good client, not much room for growth."

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"I have a great working relationship with boss and co-workers. The client was a good business and their personal were very professional."

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

"Be honest and ask a lot of questions about the postion and the client."

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"Long sometimes long boring hours. Not a lot of job simulation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"From my position, I think upper management did all it could with this client. But I have liked to see them be more aggressive finding other clients in the area."

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"My coworkers, the use of computer skills even if limited"

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

"Do not waste your time or effort, there are better companies to work for."

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"the Office Politics, unfair blame for uncontrollable events, change of policy with no notice until policy is violated then written up."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"LIsten to employees more often, give them more input and trust."

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"It not the right job for me at this time"

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

"make sure you fully understand the position that you are applying for"

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"the job itself is not fulfilling and sometimes it seems redundant"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"try to match the candidates to the appropriate job site for them"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"When I first started the hours were great for my family."

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

"You have to be flexible. Tough to do with kids."

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"The schedule changed too much, and was to hard to keep family schedule."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Communication with employees is really important to just change there schedule with out any notice does not work."

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"gives you good times and hours, and time to thinks as well"

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

"To keep your eyes always aware of your surroundings and hears"

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"Its to overpowering and they demanding so much for something so simple"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would be more of a people person and listen to everyone"

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"it's low stress, I do what I want, it's easy,"

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

"The interviewing process is easy, though you do have to have three references outside of Securitas."

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"The pay is low, the hours are on the off hours, so it cuts into your social life. The job is low status, people think you are stupid bum to be a security guard. There are too many rigid military types in the business. The work seems useless, pointless at times."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would pay the security officers at least $15 an hour. I would offer full health care coverage. I would offer $600 a week paid vacations."

What do you like about working at Securitas?

"low stress"

What don't you like about working at Securitas?

"low pay"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"provide career development"