Clean Harbors Reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,033 total reviews)

Michael L. Battles and Eric W. Gerstenberg

58% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Clean Harbors has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,033 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Clean Harbors employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation and logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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Pros

None that I can think of

Cons

Terrible compensation policies. On a national scale the pay is well below average. Worked there for 15 years and received just two 6 % raises. Received a ‘retainment raise’ of 6%. This rendered me not eligible for the across the board executive 6% raises 6 months later. Had an HR approved goal for a nice bonus. Met it. HR approves 50%. The goal they approved was ‘not a big enough goal.’ Terrible work environment. Horrible really. Your productivity is based on your ‘active’ computer stroke time. No care to what you accomplish. If you fall below their ‘expected’ 90 % productivity you are on the chopping block. Yes..,, 2 very competent employees were let go for that in my tenure. Never mind that their job responsibilities included visiting job sites and monitoring compliance. Another coworker was let go due to a survey HR conducted. This employee was a compliance monitor and the survey was done with employees who were the subjects of the tallying of their compliance. I could go on for pages and pages…bottom line clean harbors cares nothing about their employees nothing about the environment and will bend any rule for profit. And if you are in a compliance role and your work to keep the company in compliance costs the company money you’re fired.

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