Veolia reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(3,194 total reviews)
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Estelle Brachlianoff

89% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Veolia has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,194 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Veolia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energie, Bergbau, Versorgungswirtschaft industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Oct 27, 2015

Went Down Hill Fast

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Veolia ES North America was a great company to work for prior to 2013. Executive team was knowledgeable and knew how to run a profitable and successful company. Bonuses were paid when targets were met. Employees were treated with respect. The ES North American HR team was small but talented and HR leadership was engaged and listened to employees. Executive team and most of the HR team are all gone, many were termed. If you were from ES, you had a target on your back.

Cons

Veolia North America has gone downhill quickly. Sr Leadership is poor and clueless. The CEO of North America is nothing more that a Paris puppet. HR function has no leader and isn't connected to the employees. ES businesses were integrated in the Industrial Group, but no ES Executives were asked to join, so they all were terminated. Industrial now is lead by water employees who are clueless, and have never run a division that large.

4.0
Oct 13, 2015

VP

Anonymous employee
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Pros

sine qua non platform for environmental technologies not afraid to promote younger management

Cons

dominated by white males in general, and French white males at the very top

2.0
Sep 29, 2015

Don't do it.

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Pros

Great direct manager (Ray Gallagher). Generally spend a lot of time driving (sleeping if you're not CDL certified) and talking when on the trucks. Rich Finnegan EHS safety guy genuinely cares about everyone.

Cons

Long hours, overtime is expected. Never know how long your day will be, could be 4 hours or 16 hours. Upper management doesn't care about employees, only bottom line. Rarely given raises unless you pass tests, which you're not told how to obtain, when to take, given anything to review or told how it will graded. No upward mobility, always will be the same work. On-site employees (on-site contractors at customer facilities) are outcasts from the company. They're rarely ever checked upon, never hear any important info from Marlboro office. Dangerous work, regularly dealing with highly hazardous materials with poor explanations of what to do with them, especially when initially starting. Other employees seemed to be a little ..off. Took 1+ year to get training I was supposed to get in 1st 3 months. Took 8+ months to even be hired from headhunter full time.

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