Allied Universal reviews

3.1

46% would recommend to a friend

(13,271 total reviews)
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Steve Jones

46% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Allied Universal has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 13,271 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Allied Universal 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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13K reviews
1.0
Aug 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Many genuinely nice co-workers.

Cons

Where to begin? The culture in the SSO is a joke. Managers do not interact with the underlings. And believe me, we are treated as such. The Directors are socially awkward, and pained to even have to converse with the staff. Middle management, aka "Supervisors" are unwilling (likely because they are incapable) to train subordinates. They openly, and with glee, talk about how incompetent the staff is, not realizing ( or not caring) how pathetic they sound. You literally cannot ask a question without being made fun of or snarled at. They all have weird medical issues or family problems they love to talk about. It's the most unprofessional work environment I've ever worked in.

1.0
Jul 14, 2019

Abussive Employer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They will pay you, relatively low volume of work depending on patrol or post.

Cons

The company will lie to and abuse you. They will will work you 60+ hours a week and threaten to fire you if you complain. Management will engage in quid pro quo relations, turn a blind eye to sexual harassment, theft, drug use, compromising site security and officer safety. Pretty much anything goes so long as they meet the bare minimum requirements for the contract. Employees will tamper with signed logs, show up late, do whatever they want and there will be no consequences. They routinely tell you "you have no guarantee to anything and will stand whatever post whenever for however long they tell you, and it will change without notice", they discourage you from seeking employment elsewhere and it really just goes on and on. Suggesting that they are breaking the law will get them to threaten to fire you, writing HR does nothing as they just forward the complaint to the contract account manager seeking to silence the complainer rather than fix the problem. I've seen it happen three times and they were all fired. They tell you you can't email HR (not that it does any good), to lie to law enforcement, really I cannot stress enough how awful working for this company is. Honestly, this has been the single most demeaning and embarrassing experience of my life. I'm looking for work elsewhere, but for the love of god do not work for this abusive dishonest company. This companies operations go beyond unethical and immoral and are in many cases explicitly criminal.

1.0
Apr 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*It is a job *You sometimes get paid what you were supposed to *The work is generally easy

Cons

*Regular payroll issues *Payroll issues are handled poorly, and with no sense of urgency *Low pay rates *Irregular hours *Corporate seems to have little regard for field employees *Account Managers are overwhelmed and often disorganized *Extremely poor communication between Account Managers and guards *Employees who live far from the Dallas office are often required to drive to Dallas when it is not necessary. (To fill out a simple form, something that could be handled by phone, etc.)

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