This company burns through people like a wild fire. - Executive Security and Risk Management Specialist Pinkerton Employee Review

Pinkerton Houston has very few actual employees. They subcontract out most everything to smaller outside companies that have the talent and experience to do the jobs. Pinkerton takes a massive cut of the pie and then the rest goes to the company that has agreed to do the work. Pinkerton has a habit of hiring too many part time employees and then when there is not enough work to keep them busy, angers when they go elsewhere. Because of this, Pinkerton management staff when trying to fill their work orders would rather contact a subcontractor that will do all the work from staffing and dealing with all that the job entails from beginning to end. They never hire full time employees and just rotate through a seemingly never ending supply of part time ones. They used to pay decent, but now they only pay $25.00 an hour. If you have worked for them on jobs before as well as other Security companies this could pose a problem later on. If one day, one of the security company you do work for out side of Pinkerton accepts a contract from Pinkerton and then that company calls you and asks you to work the job for say $35.00 an hour, Pinkerton will tell that company that you work for them and that they will only pay you $25.00. They didn't call you to work it, another company did. However, as long as you worked for them before, they will say you're still one of their contractors and pay you less. Even though the contracted company is paying their other employees at a higher rate. When looking at the resumes and work histories of the actual Pinkerton management staff, one has to wonder how they got their positions because upon viewing their credentials, work history and experience, they didn't possess the background or experience to be where they are. Clearly the old adage, "It's not what you know, it's who you know", is Pinkerton's mantra and it's in full force. If you need a temporary stone to jump to while traversing the boggy path toward attaining your career goals, then Pinkerton may be that temporary stop you need to regroup. Don't plan on being there too long especially if your experience dwarfs any of theirs.