Echo Global Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Echo Global full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good place to get logistics Experience.
35K salary ( is a pro if thats all you want in life) Not a pro if you are trying be a provider

Cons – zero chance for commission
too many hours
no advancement potential
Benefits suck

Advice to Senior Management – Incentives that actually have money in them. commission plan with an actual chance for commission. Think more about the employees than your own pockets

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Echo Global part-time for less than a year

Pros – - Good Management
- Friendly Team
- Potential for growth

Cons – - Very boring
- Did not have much to do

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Echo Global full-time for more than a year

Pros – Young culture and extracurricular activities are geared toward that.

Atmosphere is light and loose.

The potential here is staggering ... if they can reach it remains to be seen. There are many things that we do well. But many, many others that we simply get by on brute force.

Cons – Quantity over quality is the name of the game. Focus is on turning out code, which is often sub-par.

It is not a collaborative environment. Not just between individual development teams, but between the business and the analysts, the analysts and the developers, and between development teams. We simply do not work well together to compliment each other.

Pay and benefits in IT is mediocre, especially given the hours and effort expended, turnover is high.

No investment in training for IT staff. Not on the business. Not ongoing technical training.

Advice to Senior Management – There are a lot of young managers, who were promoted from within the company, which is generally good. But there is little balance between young guns that only know the "Echo Way" and seasoned professionals that can help the company improve.

There are some smart people in IT. Put the brightest from IT and the business in a room and engage them. Collaborate with them. Then challenge them. They will challenge you back and help you to examine your preconceptions. Put all the pieces to the puzzle on the table so we can find the missing pieces together. The result will be truly dynamic partnership.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Echo Global full-time for less than a year

Pros – Young atmosphere constant change, and Beer Friday.

Cons – Where to begin: For starters, the 'Logistics Sales Trainee' period is outrageous. 6 months of managers the same age as you making you feel replaceable. The training period is going through rotations for 6 months, doing jobs they don't want to hire actual full time employees for. In short, you upload documents for 6 months and then do one week of sales training and get thrown on the sales floor and are expected to make all these goals when you have very little guidance. The atmosphere is so young that promotions are based on favoritism, not because the person actually deserved it. Communication between departments is terrible, I would even say there is no communication period. The pay is horrible and not competitive to other Logistic companies in Chicago. The only way they make up for wasting 6 months of your life is bringing in beer on Fridays mid-afternoon.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees and what they have to say. Learn how to communicate with each other and make changes with the training program. The turnover rate would be much lower if even the smallest changes started getting made.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Echo Global full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Strong company culture with great employees, leagues and events. If you're not in sales you probably have a decent and pretty easy job. If you are in sales and if you call the right person at the right time you could get lucky. It's more about getting lucky than being good at sales.

Cons – Pretty terrible compensation and benefits package, long hours, no opportunity for advancement and awful sales management.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to add value to your sales staff.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Echo Global full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The interview process was great (thanks to Mr. Sun), relaxed atmosphere, casual dress code, no micromanaging.

Cons – River North location is not ideal, low salary, expensive medical benefits, sub par 401K package, team leads, supervisors & managers are young and lack experience & knowlege of how to manage people. The entire company is extremely sales driven, policies & incentives are geared towards & favors the sales department.

Advice to Senior Management – Take complaints made to the HR department seriously, treat all departments the same & get rid of lazy supervisors & managers that do nothing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Echo Global full-time for more than a year

Pros – Career Growth Opportunites for those who put in the time to learn. Excellent Training before being placed into the job catagory or work team. On going training. Excellnet for new graduates as you learn about logisitcs which can propel you into other channels for continued growth.

Cons – Some burn out if you do not manage your off hours time. You have to keep yourself motivated for some of the positions.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep training employees so they can advance. You already do this and it just needs to continue.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Echo Global

Pros – Young energetic atmosphere
Couldn't think of any other Pros

Cons – Treated like you are easily replaceable
benefits package (lack there of)
communication between departments

Advice to Senior Management – If you want to continue to be a Technology driven company then listed to the Technology experts, not the guys in suits that sit in meetings all day playing office politics!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Echo Global

Pros – Some independence, can't think of much more

Cons – Pay, work, management, resources, recognition

Advice to Senior Management – Be prepared to cold call and sell a competitive service that is hard to sell because of the resources you are given

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Echo Global

Pros – Great money at the sales level

Cons – Lack of follow through by senior management

Advice to Senior Management – step your game up

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend