G4S reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(3,738 total reviews)
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Ashley Almanza

78% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

G4S has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,738 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The G4S 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
Jan 29, 2018

Avoid this place!

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Pros

There are absolutely NO pros with this company. They show favoritism at my location. One guy in particular was bringing different women on the job and having sex there and when several employees showed proof of him bringing women nothing was really done. On the other hand, he (the guy who brought the women) took photo's of an employee who fell asleep and the guy who fell asleep got fired. Also the guy who brought the women out an employee also took pictures of him sleeping and sent it to management. The place is very unprofessional. A captain wrote up 3shifts at a location because she failed to giving them a charger for the phone she said they had to clock in on. She also curses out employees. This place is a nightmare.

Cons

They show favoritism. The pay is okay but you more than likely won't get the hires you inquire about and nor will it be full time at one location you have to move around. The minute you dont flirt back with management consider yourself out of a job. Everything about this place has been negative.

1.0
Jan 29, 2018

Not for everyone

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Pros

If you are a cpo officer (prior law enforcement, military or criminal justice degree) you get the better pay (12-15hr) and advancement options.

Cons

The biggest issue was uso officers also known as standard security officers we're never able to make more than 11 an hour with no room for advancement. Losing contracts left and right. They do not drug test new employees so you get a lot of drugys that end up making for job harder. Make you redo your security school with their in house trainer so don't expect to start getting paid above minimum wage for the first week of hire. Doesn't matter how long of a distinguished employee history you make with them the moment you need help with getting a new schedule or asking for vacation time they put you on a black list and start by cutting your hours on till you resign (didn't happen to me but ive seen it happen to all my former co-workers). They love hiring employees that have just arrived in USA just to overwork them or use them for the holes in the schedules. As a team leader i had to cover so many shifts i was more at work than home due to the fact that they never had employees to cover even though they hire around 10 new employees weekly so you could imagine the turnover rate. Last thing the benefits are terrible the medical is higher than your check and as far as employee incentives go they have none only a bank account that their partner with which reeks of conglomerate

1.0
Jan 10, 2018
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Pros

No words to describe any pros for working for them, it’s kind of the same for working for McDonald’s. It just a job.

Cons

Coworkers constantly never show up, bad wages, always being micromanaged, made to do stupid busy work, yelled at constantly, not enough people ever!

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