Ecolab Reviews

Pros

You get what you put in, decent salary and commissions.
A high paced sales force with monthly if not weekly sales goals.

Cons

Company seems to be more worried about the stock price and or paying its executives.
The ground troops that are the life blood of the company seem to be neglected.
Cutting back payment packages that seem to not make sense.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat all employees with fairness, stop scaling back compensation packages.

Pros

Stable company with decent pay
Smart and professional people
Good growth opportunities if you're considered "high potential". If not, good luck
Ethical company

Cons

Extremely bureaucratic and hierarchical.
Employees work hard, but are not appreciated- you can never do enough.
Employees tend to be micromanaged.
People can be mean and throw others under the bus on a regular basis.
Alot of internal competition

Advice to Senior Management

You really need to change the culture of this company.

Pros

Offer a great benefit package

Cons

For the pay, they expect you to know and do much more than should be expected. Lack of leadership.

Pros

Really flexible
Vehicle benefits are nice

Cons

Over worked no work family balance

Advice to Senior Management

Get more input from the field. Management is often out of touch with what is really going on.

Pros

Provided me with income to raise a family

Cons

Management is out of touch with the field

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to spend for time in the field

Pros

Company has stability, benefits offering is adequate.

Cons

Compenstion program is "bean-counter driven" and therefore has a very unsatisfactory commission structure.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management needs an infusion of people who have been "on the firing line" instead of the the usual "MBA-types".

Pros

Plenty of areas for advancement.
Don't have to worry about downsizing.

Cons

Like any large company, there are always plenty of directives that you don't agree with.

Pros

Good pay and competable benefits

Cons

New training program implemented without any training done to field trainers

Advice to Senior Management

Learn all aspects of new training program

Pros

Great benefits.
Promotion opportunities are abundant.
Very strong culture.
Company vehicle, fuel card in most positions, paid insurance.
The company believes in lots of food at meetings.
Innovative and invests in new technology.

Cons

Orders are directed from top, down to the field with ideas implemented in a office, they don't always make sense in the field.
In some positions the workload is very heavy.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to protect the Sales Development Managers salary. If someone has made it to this position they have proven themselves to be worthy. Take action to receive feedback about new programs implemented.

Pros

paid car and insurance, thats it.

Cons

no vacations
management is sneaky
dirty dishmachines
under paid
no work/life balance when on call 24/7