Pros
The people throughout the company that work here are some of the best you could ever want to work with. Middle management is solid for the most part (a few exceptions) and does their best to grow their direct reports. Many opportunities to learn as long as you are willing to work the extra hours to do so. Employee empowerment is generally very good.
Cons
Schneider is becoming a shell of the employee friendly workplace that it was 5 years ago. Now that the Schneider family seems to be content to let others run the business that bears their last name, things appear to be going downhill fast. Company has begun to communicate to its employees in sneaky methods. Good/great employees are leaving at alarming rates, adding to an already overworked staff. Morale has fallen faster than one could probably have ever imagined for such an employee-oriented company in the last five years. Communication to employees is almost nil, versus a very welcomed over-communication around five years ago. Outsourcing is creating more problems than it is solving financially. Middle management is doing their best to hang-on while it seems like upper/senior management has no clue. Project management is a mess with too many projects going all at once and all suffering as a result. Even with tough times in the industry, the company should be managing their employees much better. Morale is causing much productivity loss, worsening a bad financial situation due to the economy. Business strategy seems to shift every year and the company seems directionless as a result.
