TerraCycle Reviews

3.0

41% would recommend to a friend

(209 total reviews)
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Tom Szaky

52% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

TerraCycle has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 209 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The TerraCycle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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209 reviews
1.0
28 Feb 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch Flexible hybrid working arrangements

Cons

I feel like my creativity was stifled in this role. There weren’t any valuable opportunities for professional growth and with the gaining popularity of Tik Tok and Instagram Reels, not being able to create that kind of video content at TerraCycle put me in an unfavourable position when interviewing for other jobs. Upper management is a mess and the turnover rate is so high because they think it’s easier to keep hiring new people than to invest in existing talent. Plus, the whole company allows brands to get away with green washing. They let brands pay for a recycling program but won’t promote the recycling program when the brand doesn’t want to spend money on actually recycling the rubbish collected.

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TerraCycle Response
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Thank you for your feedback. TerraCycle maintains a long history and strong culture of promoting from within. We strive to develop and retain strong performers through Learning and Development programming and manager mentorship. Our business is built on engaging consumers to recycle for free through programs sponsored by our brand partners - and we provide customized programs for our clients at their request. We do create all of our own content within our own brand guidelines, which you can check out on our social channels.
1.0
18 Aug 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone I worked with was young and of a similar age - because they prey on inexperienced job seekers who are less likely to stand up to their bullying behavior

Cons

I experienced a very toxic work environment where multiple people were bullied and harassed. Their idea is to constantly hire new staff, demote and/or neglect current staff, provide poor training and resources, expect consultancy level work but provide entry-level pay, all to create an environment based on mutual distrust and anxiety. Avoid working here if you can. Terracycle invests a lot into marketing and PR for their big-name brand partners, but very little into actually doing anything good for the planet. A total scam. Also, they get very defensive over the slightest whiff of a criticism. See their PR responses to the reviews on here - that tells you everything you need to know about this s**t show.

1.0
9 Aug 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Tight knit group of colleagues bonded together over the struggle of working at TerraCycle.

Cons

TerraCycle is the definition of greenwashing. Told to sell existing solutions to the marketing departments of large consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies because that department has the money and to avoid procurement and packaging teams completely as they would scrutinise on a technical level and block deals. And rightfully so because very little consumer packaging is ever collected back, it sits in a warehouse for years, and if it ever does get "recycled" it is always very low grade essentially being turned into a different form of garbage. There is never any transparency that you can share with the customer and when hard questions are asked, you simply point to other customers who have bought in and not yet realised they are wasting their money. - Moto is a red flag: To Eliminate The IDEA Of Waste (not actually eliminate waste itself) - KPI: 3-1 (you need to sell 3 times your salary at a minimum to keep your job within 1 year, but buying cycles of CPG's are often much longer than 1 year) - No sales commissions if you are below a manager (this is not standard for sales) - Salary is low - Employees are frustrated, low moral - Overworked for the pay - Median employee tenure is a red flag (low at under 2 years in most regions globally) - Micromanagement from the CEO - Sales decks are 900 slides long (a Tom Szaky special) and all you can do is talk at customers to get through the decks - Programs are to complex for consumers to follow or get involved - Low TerraCycle brand recognition so no one knows about the recycling programs - Collection rates on programs are terrible - Recycling is questionable

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