United Rentals Reviews

Current Employee – been working at United Rentals full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good management and growth. CEO has good communication with employees; send emails to employees constantly

Cons – overtime; a lot of changes due to acquisition

Advice to Senior Management – more training and career advancement opportunities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at United Rentals full-time for less than a year

Pros – Clean safe environment. Company provides ample tools to complete the work required.

Cons – Micro management at its best

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at United Rentals full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Working with Contractors is nice. Having the use of all needed equipment, ie Truck, Laptop, Phone, Gas Card, Credit Card makes the success of this possition possible.

Cons – Mangers are very disrespectfull towards outside sales. Considered expendable. Put huge, unatainable goals upon you each month. Expected to do alot that does not get paid for, such as running deliveries in order to get your product out in a reasonable timeframe.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn from my Cons list.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at United Rentals full-time

Pros – Largest in the industry,
Lots of availability to move while staying at the company.

Cons – Experiences can vary wildly from branch to branch.
Generally understaffed for expected business growth on logistical side.
In my experience mid and upper management will not return phone calls unless emergency.
Definately have to watch your back, they will let people go very quickly.

Advice to Senior Management – Add more support staff, or cool down the growth projections, with the other metrics every branch is required to meet, their are not enough people employed to make everything work at that level.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at United Rentals full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Experienced, strong leaders
Vision for the future
Truly believes in partnership with customers, not just supplier/purchaser relationships
Encourages leaders to recognize and develop talent

Cons – There aren't many cons for me. I've experienced dramatic swings in the economic situation, and those fluctuations have taken us from one extreme to another, with risks at both ends. A couple years ago, we had hiring freezes, layoffs, consolidations, etc and now we're growing fast that it's difficult to maintain a high level of service without the infrastructure supporting current activities.

Advice to Senior Management – See all projects through to completion before piling on more. Allow time for each to be absorbed and adopted fully before building the next step. Not saying only do one thing at a time, but make sure each initiative is fully in place before trying to move on to the next.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at United Rentals full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – got a job and it pays my bills for the time being until i can advance if i can.

Cons – favoritism. hard to move in the company bec the turned the branches into a skeleton company. so people dont move

Advice to Senior Management – none

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at United Rentals full-time for more than a year

Pros – Organized management processes, Higher level support for branches, maintenance management programs, online and in person training programs. Branch level manangement support small business atmosphere. Selling old euqipmetn after a few years of use and replacing with new equipment.

Cons – Disorganized transportation and equipment movement processes. Culture supports aggressive business practices to get equipment for rentals from other branches.

Advice to Senior Management – More focus on transportation and equipment move processes for accountability and management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at United Rentals full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – We actually did have the CEO come around to visit and they're operating systems were similar to what we had. They had a business plan.

Cons – The CEO was touring which locations to shut down and lay off the employees and the employees that we had and they kept all say that they are very unorganized and no one wants to work as a team. When we were laid off they held a meeting on the company's status after the buyout and someone asked straight forward if there were going to be any job losses, they said no. We left the meeting and immediately after 2 people were called into the office and let go. So in my opinion they will always be liars and untrustworthy.

Advice to Senior Management – The people working for you or forced to work for you are adults and depend on their jobs. Don't try to lie and pretend everything is okay. Let the employees know that they have to let people go so that they may be prepared in case of the worst. Work on your team building and organizational skills because right now they suck!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at United Rentals

Pros – Great coworkers, variety in the work

Cons – Long, somewhat unpredictable hours
Poor Weather (Outdoor work)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at United Rentals

Pros – Good Management and very fair. Good appreciation for hard workers. Very flexible. Gives you opportunity to expand yourself. Nice people.

Cons – Nothing I can think of for now.

Advice to Senior Management – Management is very good so I got nothing to advise.