Schneider Electric reviews

4.2

87% would recommend to a friend

(12,887 total reviews)
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Olivier Blum

90% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Schneider Electric has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 12,887 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Schneider Electric employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energie, Bergbau, Versorgungswirtschaft industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Aug 30, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Internal mobility permitting movement between departments and teams; great benefits and good salary; high growth industry with a lot of future potential; visionary leadership with ambitious goals; training and development opportunity for those who take ownership of their own learning

Cons

Growing pains from such quick, large-scale expansion; processes and getting required approvals can weight things down and make it difficult to do things as quickly as needed; executive leaders have great vision, but are not always able to communicate that clearly and easily to all employees--this leaves some completely unaware and others completely on-board, a recipe for miscommunication and dissatisfied employees

5.0
Aug 30, 2010

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You are given every opportunity to succeed, at least in my department, as long as you are willing to take ownership of your career. The people are passionate and really care about one another. The focus on energy is present in every aspect of the business.

Cons

The process of bringing all the separate entities together as one is somewhat complicated and takes a lot of time. Systems are still not all together, with some employees on Outlook and most others on Lotus Notes. Those on Notes don't like it and those on Outlook don't want it, but it seems inevitable that is the system of choice.

1.0
Aug 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Money was ok, they pretty much leave you alone to run your own territory. Fairly good service reps although most are pretty green. The product quality is still fairly good, but slipping fast. Alot of recall issues, not a great product line for a services salesperson. Coming from the manufacturing world I couldn't believe the number of salespeople they have for thier standard product when everything is sold through distribution anyway? The long-term Square D folks >20years were professional and technically competent.

Cons

Lack of inside support, lack of managerial support, lack of technical sales talent. This job never ended as they added more and more territory and made up product to your work load with absolutely no management support. Management is too busy looking over thier shoulder up the chain to care about the average employee. Specifically in NJ/NY the management was terrible. Constant struggle to get inside people to follow rules made up by management as you go. Always be prepared to leave this company as they lie to get you in and drop you in a heartbeat if it doesn't fit managements mold. I saw so many people come and go and come back, I got the feeling they really had no idea of what they were doing. Covered probably the largest territory for services for 5 years without a thanks, only what have you done for me lately. Too bad the French had to go and mess up such a good brand. Everything is "by Schneider", Square D, APC etc.. Tough to sell services when they really only have one or two products. The rest is all sub to an aquisition company and passthrough to make the services $$ look bloated and like actual growth.

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