Schwan's Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"Ample opportunity to earn a great living, earn bonuses, win trips and prizes."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you are not prepared to work many hours do not consider this as your job. If you do proceed be true to the customer and only promise to deliver what you are capable of delivering."

What don't you like about working at Schwan's?

"Too many hours, on average 70- 75 weekly. This left very little time to live outside of work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Create driver/sales teams to minimize hours worked without decreasing profits."

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"I had control over my work schedule and where I cold-called. My goal was to double the depot's annual sales by December 2012. The depot was operating at a $200k/ year loss. The company closed about 50 non producing depots cross country the last several months. It was unfortunate the Cumberland depot was closed because we were just making headway. Schwan's offers excellent food and service."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Never pre-judge prospects and clients. Know your products and offer your clients products that will benefit their family. Push clients towards pre-orders on-line to more effectively complete sales calls and maximize work hours."

What don't you like about working at Schwan's?

"It was the most inefficient business I have ever worked for. The policies and procedures of the company allowed employees to distort their performance and activity numbers to the point the company's sales were in a constant decline for over five years. The unethical practices among co-workers I came across with were unbelievable. Employees were over worked and taken advantage of for what they were paid and ineffective training did not lend to them being more efficient and productive increasing their sales. There was little management support for drivers/ salesmen during their day to day delivery sales calls."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I explained my suggestions to HR when the company sent representatives to meet with us upon closure. Training in sales and use of Hand Held Computer needs to be improved for new-hires. More hands on training and more drive time with depot manager needs to take place. Better metrics control of personal achievement needs to be implemented. Clients need to be educated on benefits of pre-ordering product to minimize in-the-home time during deliveries (typical wait time while client flips through catalog while driver is waiting is around 15 minutes, then product has to be pulled from truck)."

"I work for Mission Linens and the 2012, since then I have expanded my route and my territory to cover hospitals, casinos and hotels."

"Schwans has a great culture."

"Good company - wrong manager."

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"The respect I recieve from the people I work with on a daily bases."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The are a great company to work for and can provide some excellent experience."

What don't you like about working at Schwan's?

"The hours that we have to work as well as there is not a lot of opportunites to advance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look at the customers as well as the way the business is to help determine the directions the company needs to go for the future."

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"I like working at the company because I am basically my own boss and I take the tools they give me to do my best on my route."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"make sure you are prepared for the interview and listen to the interviewer"

What don't you like about working at Schwan's?

"I feel my company could do more to help us, the information seems to be delayed in getting to us and often come out after the fact with information that could have been used days earlier."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"to be better informed in our programs on our handhelds and keep the technology updated and available to the drivers"

"I want to work for a company that appreciates my work ethic and I can advance."

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"I enjoy being able to work by myself and to meet a lot of new people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I have no tips for interviewing with them, they will basically hire anyone due to the high turnover rate there is."

What don't you like about working at Schwan's?

"The hours that are required for this job is a lot. Your work/life balance in nonexistent. You are thrown into the truck and told to not come back in until your close to your DOT 14 hour restriction otherwise you didn't put in a full day of work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The new pay scale is decent, however, if there are poor economic towns and areas on our route days we are still held to work the regular hours. Once you see what you made for that day and divide it by the amount of hours you put in you are working for less than $8 an hour."

"High reward with meeting people- excessive hours kill family life"

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"Customers contact and ability to run own business and make decisions"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you have family this isnt the job for you"

What don't you like about working at Schwan's?

"Long hours from 7am to 10pm in the evening-constat policy changes"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They do well with what they have to do- nature of business"

"My experience in leading people was terrific."

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"People. Leading teams. Putting strategies together and executing. Seeing people succeed."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would ask the 5 year plan for the company. Where is it headed, especially with the economy, people's lifestyles changing and the overall business model."

What don't you like about working at Schwan's?

"To many leadership changes. Very little consistency in the direction of the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Ask questions to the employees, especially the front line employees. There is too much telling."

"Working at Schwan's has been a joy"

"The retention for this company is very low. The company has moved slowly to correct it."