Securitas reviews

3.7

42% would recommend to a friend

(4,653 total reviews)
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67% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Securitas has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,653 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Securitas 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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4.0
Aug 4, 2016

Security Officer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

40 Hours a week and time and a half on holidays and overtime

Cons

Benefits are not great at all, Company should take better care of employees and provide them with better resources in the work place (safety vest, uniforms, etc)

2.0
Aug 3, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay for workload is decent. Literally, the contract agreement is to provide uniformed security presence, no "hands on" work is essentially ever required

Cons

Management will lie, backpedal, deceive, and be deviant at every level at any opportunity. Guards are just names on a schedule roster and expendable if you don't disown any family or personal life to work at anytime needed, with little or no notice; even if there is a created and publically displayed "set work schedule". Regardless of what image may be portrayed, there is no structure, organization, clear and open communication. It is literally a circus which expects you to be the dancing monkey.

1.0
Jul 29, 2016

It's nothing special.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a job, standard benefits. In Oregon they have unions at some sites that require union dues to stay on that site permanently. The unions do offer benefits compared to what the parent company have in the context of healthcare costs. Portland is the most bike friendly city in America, which is good considering the Con's listed below.

Cons

They don't lead the market in terms of pay rates. I put in a transfer to move from San Jose Ca. to Portland Or. They didn't even tell me what I was going to be paid until after I was already getting certified for the area and had signed a lease. Suffice to say it was a drastic pay cut that caused me to lose my car to keep up with rent. Paychecks are bi-weekly, and that's a con for anyone who knows the better option of being paid every week. Some sites require union membership and with that union dues so given the average pay scale that paycheck is reduced even further.

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