Schneider Electric Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Awesome opportunity for my development along with ability to create new avenues for growth in product and customer base"

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Provided the freedom to drive and deliver on new product opportunities along with creating cross functional teams to develop new product offerings which landed me many new accounts and contracts."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Big company in which it took some time to navigate around to find the key personnel to get projects accomplished at times."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep driving excellence and keep focus on your key competencies."

"Was very good company to work for till it was moved from US to France."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Ability to work closely with Marketing and Engineering to develop new product offerings to solidify customers. Support needed to grow business."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Large organization which sometimes took a lot of time to get projects moving as fast I would like."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Build a stronger management support structure by building product development teams to get more projects off the ground faster."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Customer satisfaction skills, design new electromechanical products."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep the high customer satisfaction."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"The diversity of products and technology."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"People."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Nothing."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Learn a lot of technical, theoretical skill, engineering applications."

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

"Government jobs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Privatization to eliminate bureaucracy, nepotism."

"Ok company to work for with broad opportunities for lateral movement, but limited upward movement opportunities."

"Great company, but if you're going to be a truck driver do it while you're single and before having kids."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Excellent benefits package."

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

"If you're applying for a truck driver job, expect to be home about once a month. And most importantly, don't fall asleep while driving. (Just for the record, I never fell asleep while driving.)"

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"I got married and had kids. I left to be with my family. Otherwise it's a great company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get to know your employees a little better."

"A great leader in the industry, with lots of things to learn and experience."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"The ability to manage projects and see through a project from start to finish."

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

"Have a strong background in three phase power theory."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"The work has been shifting out of area, so more and more long-term travel is required."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Re-assess the distribution of personnel."

"Fair and good spirit."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"At Kavlico (previous years), it was a good company. After Schneider Electric bought this company, the management team badly managed the company, they do not know how to handle the business of the company, they transformed a good company, a make money one to a bad one; because they lost customers, they do not know how to maintain the good relationship with customers, specially, put the not enough ability engineers at the management position that drove all talented ones to quit, day after day business going down and cannot survive, and unable to compete with other competitors."

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

"1. Use the right ones in the right positions. 2. Do not discriminate, just because someone cannot speak English as fluent as native ones. 3. Strong management teams + strong production work force will surely drive the business of the company going up faster than everybody thought."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"1. Treated unfairly towards employees, the good ones do not feel comfortable, quit. 2. Management team do not have enough ability (some were demoted due to lack of knowledge and then later they were re-promoted again, some at higher level. 3. Good engineers, technicians felt bad about the management teams. 4. Unfairly treated good employees just because they are not at the same side."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"1. Management team must fairly treat employees, good review to the good ones, not just because he is or is not at the same side. 2. Create the friendly, family atmosphere at production floor. 3. Be nice towards all employees, specially towards the good ones (not like the recent years, everything is bad)."

"Kavlico is a good place to work."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"The people are really great. There is a lot of work to be done. I love to be busy and have a stack of stuff to do."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"They lay off people without thinking about how that job function will be done and end up throwing it at somebody who is already overloaded. They don't think before they act."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay more attention to what is going on in the business to prevent complications from occurring. See all sides before you make major changes."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Ability to work 2nd shift while attending school. Good pay."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Advancement is limited to office personnel."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make advancement opportunities available to all personnel."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Career growth, although cash compensation was low, benefits were beyond par, quick and smart decisions."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Distance to work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better canteen facilities, work from home option."

"Where competency and confidence collide."

What do you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Great experience for manufacturing; strong training programs; great access to education. Strong in ISO9001 and TS16949 experience."

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

"Interviews are generally not handled well. Ask to speak to a cross-functional group and peers, otherwise you will not get to do so."

What don't you like about working at Schneider Electric?

"Nepotistic hiring and promotion style. Hindered by competence gaps in some layers of the organization."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire and promote based on competency and accomplishment, not based on how well-liked employees are."