Schneider Electric Employer Reviews

I started at Square D as a college student working weekends as summers as an aide to manufacturing engineers. We had the first automatic insertion equipment in the state, starting with VCD and ultimating ending up as pioneers in volume production of SMT.

That experience on the production floor gave me great insight to be used in my product designs.

I – more... was awarded 4 patents for inventions that came from being innovative in the electronic sensor/transducer development. Had to deal with very high power systems, up to 765kV and 250kA. Learned to respect electrical power and what is can do.

I worked for my first ever program manager while at Square D. This was a rather new concept at that time. The program manager was excellent and taught me a lot about how to run a program from a business aspect (budget and scedule) as well as a technical aspect (meeting requirements). I have yet to meet another program manager that has had the insight, ethic and motivational skills that this gentleman had.

In my track record to Staff level, I was rewarded with a number of research opportunities. I served on a standards committee (ISA) for factory (automation) floor communications systems. Back then, this was a wired system, up to 10,000 ft and over 250 'field nodes'. I served as chairman of a companion standards committee at NEMA. – less

This is an amazing company with a great vision for their employees. I love the work environment, the opportunities for advancement and the overall relaxed culture. A+++

Fast paced.
more focus towards employee growth needed.
great place to learn.
great benefits.

*Manage large data driven workforce planning projects to ensure accuracy of manager/employee information such as job codes, STIP, cost centers, HRBP assignment, etc… All data projects are driven by spreadsheet completion to system input.
*Partner by phone, email or face to face, with U.S.HRBPs and VP NAM HR to validate data, discuss data gaps and determine – more... solutions.
*Interpret data to discuss trends in areas such as leadership traits and workforce planning strategy
*Manage the WK Intern Series by committing SE Leaders as guest speakers, handling monthly logistics and inviting all facility interns
*Act as a liaison between the VP of NAM HR and other Business Partners to help communicate issues or new policies/programs – less

I have some work flexibility and the people are awesome to work with. I have had opportunity to improve my education and certifications.

My co-workers are good to work with and we work at developing our teams.

The hardest part of the job is keeping design on schedule and being able to foresee impact on our schedules.

I love my job but really need – more... to find a job in Alabama as my intent is to move there in the next few months. – less

Most of this companies focus is on safety, advancement in the company is very slow, however wages are good and benefits as well. long shifts and hard work.

Work days there are are scheduled daily due to the customers demand for product. There are three different product lines being built daily. So inventory plays a big roll in daily production. We would still try to build ahead for quality issues and on time delivery.

I love the warehouse environment. I am a very hard,dedicated,faithful worker. I always give a 110% at everything i do. Unfortunately during my time of working for Schneider Electric i got sick with pneumonia and because of my inability to be 110% they let me go for missing one day. I later then found out that the reason i was let go was due to discrimination. – more... i never use the card of discrimination but for the first time in my life i was judged for the color of my skin. I hold no grudges i just want to work. I have three year old twin boys and a fiance to provide for, and I'm ready to make money for my family – less

I have been working here at Schneider Electric / Square D as a contract employer or a temporary employee for almost three years in the accounts payable department. I have been patiently waiting for a full time position. The bulk of the payables department has been sent to Monterey, MX and there will be no additional hiring in this location. I am now – more... seeking new permanent employment opportunities. – less

Your co-workers at Schneider will be fantastic. They are really great people. But there is a huge divide between the USA and France, with France trying to control everything. Jobs in the USA are not safe at all, with layoffs happening about twice a year. Manufacturing jobs are all being sent to Mexico, and the French employees will dominate everything. – more... It's unfortunate, as the people really are great, but in the USA everyone spends most of the time wondering when the next round of layoffs are coming. If you're over 50, you really are on borrowed time there. The HR support is lacking. It was a great place before the French-American battle started. – less

The HR does not care about they're emplyees, the management is recruited among -I can't find a nice word unfortunately- (my ex manager was my age and knew as much about managing a team as I knew about BMW engines) and the only thing that matters is how good of an "sycophant" you are. Even if I did my job almost perfectly, the fact that I was not a likeable – more... person (because I always speak my mind, have an opinion and basicaly have a spine) eventualy forced me to resign.
Schneider Electric Romania is the worst work place one can imagine form all points of view. The worst person I had ever met so far in terms of communication skills, performance, caring about all emplyees and treating them equally was the HR Manager. Not that the country president give a...coin about what happens in it's company...no, no way!
I could write about how things never worked in my department and how they hired initially one manager to then realize he was good for nothing and hire another who is worst, up to the point of reaching the lenght of a novel...the main idea is: chose a totaly different company if u want to be respected and treated like a human being and not like a coackroach. – less

They take care of their employees, they have very good safety iniciatives.

Good vaction time. For the most part good work enviornment. Decent job security, and benifits. Pay is low. I made good money because I was there before Scheider bought out Ram Industries.

Schneider has accumulated many companies with related product and services lines to present a unified green image and flesh out subsidiary product lines. The IT business unit is an outgrowth of the APC company acquired by Schneider in 2007. APC is a very young culture but was marketing heavy and had a very young culture. Other Schneider business units – more... are very, very old school industrial sales organizations-- contractor focused. Blend them with the structure of a $30 Billion corporation and you have process, control and cultural issues. Schneider's corporate initiated programs to drive cross -bu cohesiveness and trust fall flat.

The IT Business unit is still functioning like a startup but is driving for efficiency to match the corporate parent. This means key support structures have been trimmed to the bone, and all organizations are subject to restructuring. Many functions have been outsourced and growth paths are being restricted. The sales talent development process is much the same as it has been since mid 90s, relying on recent graduates primarily from schools on east coast, which has developed a less diverse, clubby atmosphere, and keeps the salary expectations low.

The products offered by Schneider are good to great. Efficiency drives in the IT business unit have caused longer lead times and failures in key components recently, and the competitive functional advantage of the primary product lines have been matched by the competition.

The people I worked with were good, competent folks, but their careers are limited because they were not located in the HQ.

What is most enjoyable about the job I had was working with professionals to solve problems for customers. What Schneider has and doesn't realize is a tremendous body of data center expertise in their front line sales and engineering people. No one in the industry matches it. This is a salable value that has yet to be leveraged. – less

Schneider Electric is a very progressive company with great ideas for the marketplace. I really enjoyed my experiences there.

good place for retirement. Not a good place to build career.

The most enjoyable part of the job, was the learning experience and the people i worked with were outstanding. I learned many new things, like running a rail press, punch press, assembly, and many outher things ext.

pull parts to fill orders and log to inventory
good place to work lot of fun

• Involved in estimating the time for individual features and tracking them using scrum methodology.
• Involved in several design meeting to lay out the design specifications for individual features.
• Made extensive use of object-oriented methodologies and design patterns.
• Developed web applications utilizing ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, – more... AJAX, HTML.
• Used MVC architecture of .NET framework for presentation layer, business layer, and data layer.
• Developed UI interfaces using WPF. – less

People really try to help you whenever you have an issue. Even though each is so self center in their own work, most of the employees know who to call when disturbances occur.