ADT reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(5,215 total reviews)
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Jim DeVries

47% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

ADT has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,215 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The ADT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Oct 2, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

They do have good benefits, but you have to pay a lot for them. Cannot think of a single other good thing to say about this company.

Cons

Their headquarters in Rochester, NY is filthy! It took a complaint made to OSHA and an outside vendor who came in to do some work and complained to management how filthy the workplace was in order for them to finally try to do something about it. Even the cleaning company they hired left because ADT would not take their suggestions on how to clean the place. Unfathomable how filthy this building is and how they expect their employees to work in such conditions. They have an 86% turnover rate each year. That should wake the company up that they are certainly doing something wrong. No wonder TYCO cut all ties with this company. Since the split, we were told we would not get our yearly raise in January until 4 months later due to the split. Certainly not our fault. In addition, we were told that all of our schedules would change and the company would assign us a new schedule, no matter what schedule we were hired at. I am sure the turnover rate raised even higher than 86% after that. If the new schedule assigned to us did not fit our lifestyle (many are single mothers and fathers and were given ridiculous schedules such as 4:00 in the morning until 12:30 in the afternoon, certainly not workable for a single parent raising children), we were asked to voluntarily quit. And that I did. We lost half of the team of 18 people that I worked on in one week. There is way too many "management" people there. They gather around a managers cubicle and chat for hours. Employees call this the "chat circles". They certainly are not "chatting" about how to better manage their employees or any company business. The level of obesity of all the employees there is absolutely astounding. It's very sad that the CEO who makes over 6 million a year cannot make a trip to this call center and make some executive decisions, which I thought was his job to do, to keep this company in business. Such a shame! I doubt this company can sustain itself against their competitors due to the way it is mismanaged, the dissatisfaction of their employees, and the alarming turnover rate which continues to escalate.

2.0
Oct 2, 2013

Overall, not a great place to work.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people involved in the company can be great.

Cons

High pressure, low reward, barely adequate training. They're also inflexible when it comes to minor infractions of rules.

1.0
Oct 1, 2013

Do Not Work Here.

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the co-workers are nice to work with and get to know.

Cons

You are commission-only. They still demand you come into the office even while you are commission-only. If you do not generate 4 SGL's (Self-Generated Leads) per month, they will no longer provide appointments for you, and then you make no money, then they can let you go. Also, you are competing against Individual outside Contractors who sell the same product that corporate does. Except they can give more away for FREE and they get paid way more. E.g. a basic system from corporate may cost a customer $50-$99 (Wireless, 2 doors, 1 motion, 1 keypad, 1 remote) and the sales person can make $50-$75 commission; while with a Vendor it can be FREE-$99 (Wireless, 2 doors, 2 motions, 1 keypad... or they can work with the customer and rearrange the number of products) and the sales person will make $550+!!! Although vendors do not receive leads, you are competing with 'free' and more commission, and if you aren't getting your 4 sgl minimum per month you will not get leads with corporate either. Do not work with ADT at all, not even with vendors. Horrible company.

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