AlliedBarton Reviews

I worked at AlliedBarton

Pros – Meet new people, fun busy

Cons – bad pay, long hours tough job

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at AlliedBarton full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Efforts are strong, training is pushed very hard.

Cons – If you're not in the 'in' group, you're definitely on your way out. Lots of underhanded 'deals' going on.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your district offices, you'd be surprised at how much risk they're putting you at.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at AlliedBarton full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – AlliedBarton is very well known in the Security field. AB is the largest private security company in the US. If you want to go international, I'd recommend Securitas.

Cons – Have to be willing to roll with the punches. AB has high standards and you need to perform higher than those standards to move up in the company. Your pay may not reflect the value of your work, AT FIRST. Benefits are horrible. But something is better than nothing.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay for what you get. You expect an awful lot out of security officers only working for $12/hr. If you want the officers to work harder, give them something back.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at AlliedBarton full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – AlliedBarton Security Services is the industry’s premier provider of highly trained security personnel to many industries including commercial real estate, higher education, healthcare, residential communities, chemical/petrochemical, government, manufacturing and distribution, financial institutions, and shopping centers. Our more than 50,000 employees and 100 offices across the country service a client base of several thousand which includes approximately 200 Fortune 500 companies nationwide. AlliedBarton is headquartered in Conshohocken, PA, and has been American owned and managed since 1957.

Cons – Some employment opportunities require a very flexible schedule.

Advice to Senior Management – Excellent senior management team.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at AlliedBarton part-time for more than 7 years

Pros – pay,flexible hours, steady job. nice

Cons – management doesn't have a clue

Advice to Senior Management – talk to your employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at AlliedBarton full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I worked with very knowledgeable, considerate people who helped balance work and personal life while meeting business needs. The opportunities abound for advancement if you want to stay within the company and want to meet the challenges and people daily. Be ready to be flexible, professional, outgoing, willing to work flexible hours as needed.

Cons – I really had no downside issues with AlliedBarton. Due to nature of business there is simply a high turnover of people, some work out and others shine and advance in this career path.

Advice to Senior Management – Tukwila branch office has great people working there.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at AlliedBarton full-time for more than a year

Pros – Supervisory skills are vastly improved, Leadership and training are strongly emphasized. American owned. Nationwide and can promote within

Cons – Field pays poorly, promotion is slow, people are looked at at resources not human beings that need a break

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure you look at employees as people not just as resources. Practice the "internal customer" philosophy that is in so much of the EDGE training

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at AlliedBarton full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – An energetic staff and collboration contribute to a great team atmosphere. The benefits are decent if a bit pricey but the work-life balance of most groups is great.

Cons – Management is reluctant to address problem staff and weak players. High turnover may be expected amongst the officers but 50-60% turnover within IT in 2 years points to a problem.

Advice to Senior Management – Shuffle the deck and bring in fresh management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at AlliedBarton full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – More or less a "steady paycheck". Sometimes the next week's schedule even comes out before the week begins. Usually you get paid on time, unscheduled overtime, maybe, maybe not. At least on my site, we work as a squad, as a team, in spite of the best efforts of the project manager.

Cons – Management!!! The Allied Barton business model. This IS NOT a local issue (check reviews from around the country!). Despite all the "training" meetings, with all the yea team, "you the uniformed officer" make us who we are. The pins, certificates (12 to 18 months after the fact), posts on face book, paid for adds in trade publications, as to Allied Barton's exceptional training. All of that plus $3.50, will almost buy a gallon of gasoline.

Advice to Senior Management – Why bother? This is a systemic, on going reality! The Allied Barton business model is to continue repeating the same behavior, collecting a fee for said behavior, the uniformed officer be damned... Didn't some one once equate that with insanity? No. Because Allied Barton doesn't want any different outcome. Low wage, easily replaceable, expendable personnel are stock in trade.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at AlliedBarton full-time for less than a year

Pros – Work/life balance is okay, the site I work is an 8 hr shift. Most of the Officers I work with are great.

Cons – Pay is low. You only receive sick days, or personal days, if the client you work for wants to pay for them, though if you are an account manager or if you work in an AlliedBarton corporate office you receive them plus more vacation time and longer funeral leave. Everything is based on if you average 35 hours or more a week. With Obamacare starting, they are encouraging managers to hire more part time employees and keep them below the 30 hours to avoid paying for insurance. They promote who they want, then a day later post the job to make it look legit. Basically your only treated as well as the client wants to pay to treat you.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your Security Officers like you treat your clients, or your corporate employees instead of like equipment. The training is terrible, your given the answers to the tests to rush you through so the "trainer" can go back to Indianapolis. The "Edge" training modules is full of grammatical errors and contradictions this needs fixed. I would suggest using an undercover officer at sites to find out the truth about how things operate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company