Clean Harbors Reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,031 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 2,031 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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2K reviews
1.0
30 Mar 2018

Lousy Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

They'll probably be in business for a while; sometimes a sinking ship takes on water slowly.

Cons

401k match of up to only $750 annually. No raises in past 4 years. Management is too busy trying to stay on the CEO's good side to tell him what really needs to be done to make the company better (the emperor has no clothes syndrome).

1.0
21 Jul 2014

The Company is terrible

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is nothing positive to say; more work, worse equipment, less help, lower wages than industry average. We cannot keep and retain good help.

Cons

To be accepted you need to go tuna fishing while wearing knee pads or else you're expendable. They get rid of the good employees, while keeping the one's who are their buddies.

1.0
12 Jan 2017

Toxic Environment

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are really good people who care about the job they do and are doing the best they can with what they are given.

Cons

This truly is the most toxic and dysfunctional environment I've ever worked. It's an environment that stifles creativity and does not foster innovation or new ideas. As a result, they are constantly reacting and not being proactive. You have various departments trying to cover themselves and blaming other departments when something goes wrong rather than accepting responsibility and working towards a solution. This all trickles from the top down. Leadership only wants to be told what they want to hear and as a result things keep running the same way despite serious red flags on compliance, health and safety & human resource issues. Employees are seen as a means to an end rather than valuable resources. This is shown in the cutting of 401K match, lack of raises and constant increase of health benefit costs.

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