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First Service Networks

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First Service Networks Reviews

2.5

28% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)

Jim Reavey

50% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

First Service Networks has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The First Service Networks employee rating is 29% below average for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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63 reviews
1.0
3 Mar 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I have a job and usually get paid on time. They like to think they have good benefits, but the truth is, they are very expensive, especially if you have family coverage and although they have a 401k, they don't provide any match.

Cons

When I was hired, I was given 2 weeks vacation, 5 sick days, 6 paid holidays and 6 floating holidays. A month later, they changed the policy to 10 PTO days, 1 floating holiday and 6 regular paid holidays. They stole all the sick pay and 5 floating holidays with no explanation or apology. We were just supposed to feel grateful to have a job. Who treats people that way?

2.0
10 Jul 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work like balance, culture is average, overall operations are okay at best.

Cons

This company does not pay its clients on time. It is that simple. 60+ day time frame to get paid, but the COO has decided that holding payments and cutting checks at a set date a month is the right way to do business. What makes this difficult was my position required me to inform clients that all payments are sent 45 days after the work being successfully uploaded within the system; but, this never happens! FSN fails to tell the clients and their employees about distribution dates making everyone in their network clueless. Furthermore, customers may not pay for jobs and FSN just ignores this and has nothing in place to solicit late payments from their customers. My supervisor was full of herself. This made her two faced and at times jarring, especially when you hear the "team lead" talking down about her team or yourself. Favoritism is a big deal in her office political system resulting in a poor work environment, dirty looks, and a childish supervisor. Training was poor and more often than not I found myself asking questions we quickly went over in three days. Even more difficult was the fact that you were talked down to if you needed to know information or you had to relay on one person on the team who has one login to a website that has pertinent for the entire team. Lastly, this company has just merged with another network of service providers and fails to tell the former clients about the merger - this resulted in clusters of random businesses seeing a business they have never heard of leaving many questions unanswered. When I asked about how to explain the merger, we were told that we should just tell them the "same parent company owns the two" and they were just to accept that. Most people saw through this and asked a lot of questions pertaining the change, many of which we were not suppose to explain to the new clients - just simply support their questions to a non-existent script.

1.0
7 Aug 2015

Unethical

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pros: you're employed and contributing to the economy.

Cons

Everything else. Long workday with no overtime for salaried workers. Terrible medical insurance -- takes a big chunk of your paycheck. 401K is not good and not matched. A lot of turn over in the company. Vendors that your forced to work with are not paid on time. About a 190 day turn over. Customers are not getting what they pay for but are kept in the dark about it. This company and the parent company need to be investigated.

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