Cintas Reviews

Pros

Stable company with opportunities to grow your career. Great employees from line-level to upper management. Strong ethics and values. Rewards and recognition are performance based.

Cons

The pace and competitive environment is not for everyone. Some employees will not understand or integrate well with the company's strong culture.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep driving engagement thru the engagement survey process. I believe the surveys should be taken more often to monitor progress and drive engagement levels.

Pros

- slightly above average compensation opportunity up-to your third year in outside sales
- widely respected on your resume
- culture based on working hard, then working harder
- if you're relocatable, there are TONS of opportunities for advancement

Cons

- no concept of work/life balance
- apart from cash, don't expect many perks
- technologically, they're in the stone age
- thinking "outside the box" is not welcomed
- you're expected to be at the office at 7am

Advice to Senior Management

stop promoting "top performers" and start promoting leaders - consider taking the company private as focus on "shareholder value" is resulting on poor long term management decisions. Embrace technology - save gas by embracing opportunities to work remotely.

Pros

great car package
job security is strong
lots of training to be successful
good company to use as a stepping stone to work somewhere else after

Cons

micromanaging is horrible
The pay at first I thought was good but it hasn't changed and I have been very successful. bad commissions and bonus
way too much corporate bs

Advice to Senior Management

stop micromanaging

Pros

Cintas is known as an employee that will promote anyone regardless of degree as long as they prove themselves through hard word. Many of the middle management came started as hourly workers, many without college degrees.

Cons

Cintas works its lower-level salaried employees to the bone. Management trainees (just out of college) were often called in to work the production floors on weekends to prevent running overtime with hourly employees. While the management trainee program is billed as giving high-potentials exposure to many aspects of the business, I found most of my 2 years in the program was spent running delivery routes and cleaning restrooms late night (one of their services) in order to make up for consistent staffing shortages and high turn-over.

Advice to Senior Management

Cintas has the potential to be a great company. A big problem in the culture is promoting the highest performer to manager. This problem is widespread and the company should learn to promote for leadership ability as well. The best player is not always the best coach.

Pros

You will develop your skills at Cintas. There are plenty of opportunities to advance your career. Constantly looking to improve services ordered

Cons

short term performance often outweighs valuable skills. Promotable attributes can be limited to the latest numbers. Service and sales goals can be conflicting.

Advice to Senior Management

Find the employees who add value to the company and develop those employees. Put less value on the short term performance and more on long term value.

Pros

Given lots of responsibility and direct P&L impact. Training programs are very good.

Cons

Compensation is low compared to the skills, requirements, and hours needed to do the job.

Advice to Senior Management

Better analysis for job requirements vs. pay scale.

Pros

Great people to work with,
get paid for your hard work,
great customers,
always on the move, never bored.

Cons

Some customers are unreasonable,
You are dead tired at end of week- mind you its only a 4 day work week
some old trucks
shorting your customers

Advice to Senior Management

keep it fun and friendly, applause the good things people do and follow through with promise's
gm- dont be so greedy all the time

Pros

Great morale at the management level. The company has a unique history of hard work and humble beginnings that transformed into a fortune 1000 company. Strongly support promoting from within. Everyone from the drivers to the CEO have to go through training in the plant, doing the dirty jobs to build up respect for the frontline partner.

Cons

Lower skill workers and drivers don't buy in to the corporate culture. Makes it hard to keep people motivated. The company is so afraid of becoming unionized that they tend to dismiss poor performance and fail to discipline those with infectious, negative attitudes.

Advice to Senior Management

Use disciplinary action. It's what it's there for.

Pros

Industry Leader
Stellar Training for new reps and continuing training for all reps
Great $$$ for sales reps if you make your #'s
Pride in Company
Always bringing new products to the line makes selling fun and not get stale

Cons

If you don't "drink the Kool-Aid" you won't last long
High management turn-over makes it hard bc you have to constantly re-create your personal brand
Many times you are just a # to higher-ups...if you're not PC pace, you're nothing to them
No loyalty to producing employees who want to transfer markets
Yes, you get paid well...but you will work very very long hours

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe it's time to take into account a rep's attitude and what they actually bring to the table as far as future growth and development. A rep is not just a #...if a rep is not quite at PC pace yet, upper management should not make them feel like they are worthless. You need to keep in mind that all markets are different, so it is not truly fair to compare them they way you currently do.

Pros

Many opportunities for advancement
Great sales experience
Compensation is amazing
Definitely like we are all one big family
Pay is great
Love it

Cons

Sometimes you run out off stuff to do and the day gets kinda boring or you have to go cold call