Waste Management Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Waste Management full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – work hard and get paid for it

Cons – not upfront about the truth

Advice to Senior Management – go back to basic

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Waste Management full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great coworkers, great customers, awesome local office

Cons – poor upper management, decisions made based on stock holder numbers

Advice to Senior Management – listen to your field reps

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

Current Employee – been working at Waste Management full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Huge company, many divisions, financially strong, lots of opportunities (especially if one's open to relocation) across the country. Has traditionally been very generous to it's employees, and formerly enjoyed a great reputation as a great place to work.

Cons – Many company functions are becoming centralized, which causes significant loss of "local" talents and relationships. This is do to cost-cutting, even though all the information put out by the company always seems to be rolling in dough.

Advice to Senior Management – Why keep dumping the people who do the real work?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Waste Management full-time for less than a year

Pros – The pay was decent for an entry level position, you stay busy most of the day & is a relaxed environment.

Cons – Scalehouse can get really congested, customers get irritated with the wait, poor communication between shifts, scheduling was a constant battle.

Advice to Senior Management – Better training.

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

Current Employee – been working at Waste Management full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Strong learning potential, committed to environmental excellence,

Cons – Sales direction based purely on increasing the average price per customer, leadership lacks direction

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to appreciate the veterans on staff for their experience.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Waste Management full-time

Pros – Overall, the leadership at WM is truly committed to the safety of their employees. There are some managers that don't quite get it, but that is not because of lack of support from Sr. Leadership.

Cons – They may have cut too far in trying to reduce management structure costs. All the same work must be done (if not more) and resources are limited.

Advice to Senior Management – The few safety resources left in the field must be more highly valued and compensated. They are key to continued success. The size of the group has been greatly diminished, so the folks left have tremendous responsibility.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Waste Management full-time for more than a year

Pros – Autonomy, work ethic, dedicated employees who deliver strong results, work and life balance is pretty good

Cons – Senior leadership has no connection to the field. They have greater than thou attitude with the customer facing employees. More focus on cutting the workforce to meet Wall Street expectations versus a strategy of selling your way out of a problem. Wall Street manages the company versus the company managing Wall Street.

Advice to Senior Management – Get out in the field and talk with front line employees and managers, Require the BOD to do the same. This is a service business that requires engaged employees and informed customers.

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

Current Employee – been working at Waste Management full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – My co workers are great to work with

Cons – No concerned with supporting employees

Advice to Senior Management – Raise moral and it will help business

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Waste Management full-time

Pros – Fair compensation and benefits, for the most part hard working great co-workers

Cons – Customer retention tough due to pricing strategy and fees, long hours for managers.

Advice to Senior Management – Come up with a long term strategy for unit growth pricing stability based on overall industry capacity and share this with the employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Waste Management full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Pay was decent as was hours. Gave you the training you needed to get the job done. Tried to give good customer service for what they were charging for but this did not always happen.

Cons – Raises were on hold. Always doing a reconstruction in the sales area. Think that because they have been around for a long time they should be able to give customers a higher rate than their competitor, not realistic with their sales goals.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to be more realistic with pricing due to the economy! Need to value the customers they have that give more than 100%!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company