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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3.0
Apr 15, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good benefits, company car, 401k, base salary, good group of guys to work with locally and that can be important

Cons

going away from service in a service based industry. Bonus dollars and income growth is becoming limited. Over priced on "street business" and the distributor pricing structure is hard to justify to the customers at times. Company likes to rotate customers to other reps in the metro areas and that causes problems. Overloading customers with product and spare parts and letting the next rep deal with the upset customers, its really too bad.

2.0
Apr 5, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If the company ever returns to the customer oriented company it once was, while starting to respect and value its workforce again, it will have many reasons to be a great place to work.

Cons

No matter how much you excell, no matter how much you sell, no matter how much you are loyal to the company, management is never satisfied. Always wanting more to the point of disrespecting the workforce.

2.0
Mar 13, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some job freedom in that you get to do what you want.

Cons

The company throws you in and expects you to know every answer to possibe situation that arises when it comes to you and your customers operations. Be aware that you will be expected to babysit all of your customers needs by doing everything from fixing invoice problems, wiring dish machines, setting up returns, delivering product to them when they forgot to order products to get them through the weekend all while being expected to SELL, SELL, SELL! This job is posted as a sales job but you quickly find out that you are just a service man with a tie. Oh yeah you are expected to wear slacks and a tie all while crawling under dish machines, sitting in puddles of water and cutting copper tubing. You are also expected to meet ridiculous sales numbers and are threatened with your job and intimidated when you are not meeting those numbers. You will never feel more worthless and helpless than you do with this job. Most of us are smart guys/girls but are never given the opportunity to shine because most likely you will get little to zero training.

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