Ecolab reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(5,080 total reviews)
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Christophe Beck

74% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Ecolab has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,080 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ecolab employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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5.0
May 30, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you want to be the best and work with the best this is a great job for you. It is at times tough. But in most cases if you need tons of hours to complete monthly, weekly, daily requirements, you are not working with the tools that ECOLAB supplies for you. Make your own schedule aside from customer needs. Great atmosphere within work groups at meetings and functions. ECOLAB promotes exclusively from within. Have never met a manager that was not at the lowest rungs at one point in their careers. Company cars are provided. Amazing benefits and vacation time.

Cons

This can take up a lot of time and is demanding when you fall behind or have large customer issues talking several days. It is hard to gain support from top management on issues that pertain to smaller/local customers.

3.0
May 24, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will have the ability to schedule your day. If you need to go to the doctor or PTA meeting its flexable. If you have never done route sales/service, it's a good way to learn a lot FAST. You will learn how to be the owner of a business minue the reward of salary increases.

Cons

Too much work for one person. You will need to have monthly reports, weekly reports and daily check-in on your numbers. You are expected to stay at 100% call coverage, 100% new account sales, 100% collection calls because the products cost too much, 100% new account installs, 100% no-returns, 100% budget which means selling customers what they don't need to meet the quotas. You are on call 24/7, and if your not in a social click you will find it hard to take more than one day off work. The company is very sales focused without formal sales training. The dynamics are not in your favor unless you enjoy doing repairs every day. Most of the repairs are learn as you go. You are expected to repair dishmachines and sale two new accounts per month. You must sales the accounts, install the accounts and service the accounts. You make 6% of every dollar sold. You may sale an item that cost $300 and for that item you will make $18.00 and you will spend two hours in the account doing your normal job and then installing the item.

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