WM Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
59% would recommend to a friend
(141 total reviews)
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Updated Dec 5, 2023
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- "What was great about working here was most of the people and the benefits were great too." (in 478 reviews)
- "Managers do not do a great job with communicating with their employees unless it’s regarding sales ." (in 72 reviews)
- "No training, must sit next to someone who is a regular paid employee and hope they know how to train you." (in 53 reviews)
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Reviews about "work life balance"
Return to all Reviews- 4.0Feb 16, 2016Operations ManagerFormer Employee, more than 5 yearsLewisville, TX
Pros
Promote from within and develop their leaders. Great benifits
Cons
Long hours no life work balance. On call 24 hours a day 7 days a week
- 2.0Nov 7, 2022Setup CoordinatorCurrent Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Benefits- They are pretty decent. Health and retirement are competitive. School benefits are also aligned with most tech companies.
Cons
No room for advancement. Management discourages you from applying to other departments, especially since you are hard-working. Raises are low; they will give you a minimum after your yearly review. Work-life balance is almost poor; some employees will work longer hours than others in the same department. Making changes that would benefit the department is also discouraged, so you will constantly react instead of being proactive. Everyone passes the buck, and no one takes ownership or responsibility.
WM Response2yThank you for taking the time to express your concerns as we value all feedback. We continually strive to ensure that our management is providing the best leadership to our teams. The key to our success is our people and we continue to make strides in providing the best work experience possible.
- 4.0Dec 23, 2020Anonymous ContractorFormer Contractor, less than 1 yearHouston, TX
Pros
Takes care of their employees and cares about work life balance
Cons
No the best technologically advanced company
- 4.0May 27, 2014Customer Service SupervisorFormer Employee, more than 5 yearsSaint Louis, MO
Pros
There are many opporturnites for job growth and the company values engaged employees and customers. Waste Management is an environmental leader and seeks to recycle and repurpose waste.
Cons
Employees must often work very long hours and it can be difficult to maintain a work/life balance. Management style among locations varies greatly and at times this results in conflicting priorities.
1 - 4.0Feb 14, 2019Anonymous EmployeeFormer Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Team moral , fun environment. Manger was personable and understood work/life balance. Department activities and team building events.
Cons
Book of business can be too much causing stress. Overtime not permitted so you had to sometimes work through lunch to get things done on time. Manager understood work life balance which I think upper management needed to understand more. Upper management didn’t really care about the clients and only cared about the bottom line and keeping clients money.
WM Response5yThank you for taking the time to write a review. As you know, this industry can be very demanding, but we also understand that work-life balance is important and love to hear recommendations on how to best provide a positive work experience. We appreciate your feedback as we continue to learn and grow.
- 4.0Mar 8, 2021Dispatch ManagerFormer Employee, more than 1 yearFoxboro, MA
Pros
Compensation and work life balance
Cons
Limited room for advancement to cross-functional areas.
- 5.0Dec 6, 2021Distict ManagerCurrent Employee
Pros
Steady work with growth opportunites
Cons
Long hours and lack of work/life balance
- 3.0Sep 7, 2022DispatcherCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsMoon Township, PA
Pros
The job is relatively easy once you learn all the proprietary systems. The learning curve is the only read hard part. Benefits are solid and probably the best thing, nice 401k matching. Tuition assistance is there too. As far as career advancement, if you are interested in operations you should be able to get an opportunity there within a few years if you are good at what you're doing.
Cons
Pay structure leaves too much to be desired. 2% base pay raise per year, whether you are the best at what you do or the worst. Low incentive to be amazing. This will leave you lagging behind new people getting hired, as I have recently learned. They will outpace you in pay while being less experienced, and that is objectively bad business. Also mandatory rotated Saturdays and occasional holidays. Not great for work/life balance when you end up with a 5am Saturday shift that pretty much erases your weekend.
1WM Response2yThank you so much for leaving such a detailed review! We value all feedback and continually strive to ensure we are providing our employees with an environment they can succeed in.
- 5.0Feb 4, 2021Senior AccountantCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsSacramento, CA
Pros
WM cares about their employees and demonstrate that through their actions pretty well. Management makes sure we have everything we need to be comfortable to do the job. They try their best to have work life balance down for employees and take feedback to heart.
Cons
It's garbage.. so it can smell or be dirty.
1 - 5.0Mar 13, 2021Project SpecialistCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearBaton Rouge, LA
Pros
All about the employee and the work life balance is awesome!
Cons
Hiring skilled and professional managers would be helpful in the team reaching full productivity and maintaining a safe working environment.
