How to Ruin an American Icon - Senior Staff Engineer/Global Solutions Architect Schneider Electric Employee Review

2.0
Feb 23, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great engineers, forward thinking designs

Cons

Too much social engineering, mandatory adherence to policies that have nothing to do with your job, constant loss of employee benefits, lack of advancement opportunities past 10 years of employment, ruthless whole scale change of many levels of management in divisions when upper management changes, catering to specific age groups, poor overall direction for pursuing business between like business units, continual change of company image to the public, failure to adhere to corporate practices & policies relative to promotion and termination (based on how your manager interprets the policy), woeful support from Human Resources (its a 3rd party), STIP - Short Term Incentive Plan is like the old game of trying to find the ball under the 3 cups. Schneider Electric is the epitome of the "socialization" of a once great American company (Square D).

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

-Flexible Job -Autonomy to run your own territory as a business -Great benefits -Employee Stock Sharing Program -Leadership brands in the market

Cons

-Large and slow -Constant org changes Top Down

2.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

- Decent pay and good benefits - work truck with gas card -good experience

Cons

- management is disconnected from field employees - review process does not reflect employee performance since managers do not go out in field in order to properly assess job performance - poor communication which leads to chaotic project implementation - no standardization of necessary info for each customer site. You walk in completely blind each time you visit a customer you’ve never been to - safety is important, but corporate pushes redundant messaging so frequently i believe it has the opposite of the intended effect - forced to wear long sleeves FR shirts in hot weather even when you are not exposed to fire hazards any more than a standard office employee

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