Great coworkers but Toxic/restrictive leadership and micromanagement - Anonymous employee WillScot Employee Review

1.0
2 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The employees make this company work. You are surrounded by great hard-working individuals that want to succeed.

Cons

Customer Success leadership under Sr. Manager Heather Stuart is highly top-down and does not support open feedback or differing viewpoints. There is a clear expectation that decisions are not to be questioned. The environment relies heavily on documented coaching, write-ups, and performance plans that can feel subjective, creating a culture focused more on discipline than development. Despite messaging around valuing employee morale, promotion decisions often place individuals into Lead and Supervisor roles without sufficient experience, which impacts team effectiveness and credibility. The leadership team appears to favor compliance over independent thinking. Meetings are largely one-directional, with minimal input unless individuals are directly prompted. When guidance is requested, responses often come in the form of additional questions rather than clear direction, creating confusion. There is also a disconnect in understanding the broader functions of the department. Key operational areas such as billing, accounting processes, and purchase order workflows do not appear to be well understood, while oversight remains heavily focused on micromanagement. There is little visible oversight or accountability from senior leadership, including VP David Botello, and limited involvement from HR in addressing ongoing concerns.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Monday through Friday My office was laid back, Manager was good Pretty good benefits Commission was also pretty good.

Cons

When I was going through the interview process, I was told this was an office/outside and even remote/outside sales job, You would work in office or remote 3 days a week and out visiting customers and jobsites the other 2. This is not at all what the job entails. You are sitting at a desk making a minimum of 40 calls a day or you get reprimanded by what feels like 3 or 4 managers. Your job basically is to call GCs about construction projects that may be months out, they dont even need your products and services yet, but anything to get those calls and satisfy KPI right? Luckily I knew alot of my customers personally I was calling on and they were nice but you can tell when you feel like your becoming a nuisance. Willscot doesn't have the best reputation in the marketplace and we got our doors beat in by 2 competitions in my region. Very corporately structured and it's a very cold feeling at corporate. I only had to go for training. Bottom line if you thrive in a call center environment you will do well, if not it's a dead end road. Half the people in my branch left around the same time I did.

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