Schwan's Employee Job Reviews in the United States

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"

"The govenment is checking into abuse charges at this time"

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"They have the right idea about how to do things. But what they tell you is fictional. Your pay is both bonus and commission. When you log onto the computer you earn $50 for the day. When you complete 80% of your stops on time, then you earn another $50. The problem is that when you are allowed only 4 minutes to service a customer and need to process a link card, it takes an additional 4 to 4 1/2 minutes to process the call. If you lose your personal cell phone signal while processing the link card you must start all over again. You have have to try to process the same link card 2, 3, 4 times or more depending on the cell phone signal from the cell phone that you own. That's right. You have to also supply your own cell phone. The company also saves money this way. If you do not make 80% of your stops on time you lose $50 for the day. You also earn 1% on commissions up to $800 and then the commission goes up. But if you earn $50 for logging onto the computer, you lose $50 in bonus because the daily schedule does not all enough time to make the required stops or someone has set up false address in the g.p.s. that do not exist or if the set the g.p.s. for a location that is perhaps 1/2 to 1 mile away from the correct address location then you will not make 80% of your stops because you have no idea where they are. But you do earn 1% on sales up to $800. That is great!!! You sell $800 worth of product and you earn 8 cents, before taxes.So by the end of the day you have actually grossed $50 for logging onto the computer, You may have sold $600 worth of product and earned 6 cents (gross pay). This is wonderful. But do not forget to deduct the cost of the cell phone that you have to purchase to use on your job with Schwan's."

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

"PLEASE learn how to read interviewers. This will not only help you learn the truth yourself about Schwan's, but help when interviewing with other companies."

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

"This is covered in the statement above. I am so upset with Schwan's that I cannot stand it. Everyone needs to check the internet for sites that employees and customers have posted. YOU WILL BE SHOCKED AT WHAT YOU LEARN."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management is aware of the problems and has demonstrated that they do not care. There is nothing that anyone can suggest to management or anyone else if they do not care what they are told. After all they are management and who cares what an employee says or thinks, unless it is publicly made comments like this that tell what is going on at Schwan's."

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."

"People come and go. Has been alot of down sizing over the past 2 years."

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"Nice work location and good work environment. They allow flexible work hours."

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

"Be up front about being flexible on relocation. If you want to move up here you are going to have to move around."

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

"Low pay and a lot of no bonus positions. They have made it harder to apply for internal jobs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Adjust pay to same size companies. make internal jobs easier to find and apply for."

"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."

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."

"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."

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"the people I would meet at some of these houses were very differnt each person had their own characteristics about them"

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

"it may be awhile before you are taken off of training mode. they could keep you there for over three months"

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

"the pay for the hours I was working was not equaling up to the work I was doing"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"if you want employees to stay pay them for the work they are doing"

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)."

"Good company - wrong manager."

"kind of harsh but true"

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"being independent . meeting new people. being responsible for myself"

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

"choose it as your last resort. not a family friendly company. it's great if you are single"

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

"little to no help from management. company policies change day to day. make your quota or get out attitude."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"be realistic with the way the economy is. have more knowledge of your tasks at hand and don't just be a yes man"

What do you like about working at Schwan's?

"Enviroment, personal, and is a good place to work and learn"

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

"the extructura for the company its very good"

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

"Company goals and regulations"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to manage with out rumers and confront the Issues day by day"