Schneider Electric reviews

The company has a pattern of investing in employee development but then laying staff off to improve financial metrics. While leadership questions high turnover, employees often feel a lack of job security. Those with higher salaries due to experience, as well as newer hires, may find themselves unsupported during challenging times. In addition, new initiatives, software, and strategies are consistently rolled out from upper management with a “bird’s eye” perspective, without gathering meaningful input from the teams directly impacted. This top-down approach limits the effectiveness of change and overlooks valuable expertise at the operational level. The organization has significant potential, but in practice, it functions as little more than a place to collect a paycheck, as meaningful change is rarely supported or sustained. Even programs branded under IMPACT feel misaligned — more like “Imposing Management’s Plans And Cutting Talent” than truly empowering employees.

1. Unclear role and responsibility from day 1 of the new team. Many, many, many politics. The total number of big and small organization changes could not be counted by 2 hands, within just 1.5 years. 2. It is design and development team, but the technical skills and competencies are far away from the target, especially for senior and even architect level staff. 3. No fairness, small amount of good and hardworking members are punished because of so called “no cooperation behavior”; most of the unskilled members are safe, without any penalty. 4. No commitment and ownership, committed at the beginning but finally not delivered, with different types of excuses and reasons. Such things are “encouraged” without any change. 5. Manager without any R&D background, very little leadership and people management skills, no clear direction at all. 6. Department from HQ is very aggressive in doing project, very tight schedule but less help from other team members. 7. Project delayed again and again and again, finally HQ could not wait and tolerate, they took over the ownership otherwise even the HQ management will be “dead”. Overall, the situation becomes worse and worse. More and more people will leave.