Samsonite reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

(370 total reviews)
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Kyle Gendreau

93% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Samsonite has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 370 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Samsonite employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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370 reviews
2.0
Jun 9, 2015

Started great, now seeing the real side

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work relationship between coworkers. Best benefits.

Cons

Management is lazy and only looking out for themselves. Management continues bad mouthing employees to other employees. No room for improvement even when there are open positions to move up. Hard working employees are not recognized but the lazy employees are favored.

1.0
Apr 23, 2015

I Don't Know how They Make Money

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Salary was alright, random holidays like Good Friday are nice, team building events (that the vast majority of people don't attend unless there is free food, and even then there is a bizarre amount of begging) can be fun, and the products really are good.

Cons

This is where dreams go to die. If you are highly motivated, remotely assertive, or interested in learning... anything, run in the opposite direction. I have never worked with a stranger, more incompetent group of people in my life. I know people complain about management, but seriously none of these people have a clue of what they want, how they want it, why they want it, what planet we're on, how to tie their shoes, etc. "Fit" is paramount. Statements like "you're going to need to dumb it down a bit to fit in here" and "having your teammates like you is the most important thing" were favorites of my manager, along with "here are all the reasons why every person in this office sucks at their job, and life. God I hate it here." Comical amount of nepotism. Vast majority of employees have never, and will never, worked anywhere else. Benefits are pretty much crap. 2 weeks vacation, basically no tuition reimbursement, dental insurance doesn't cover a full cleaning. Office is old and depressing. There are absolutely zero building perks.

2.0
Apr 8, 2015

SO-SO

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Employee Discount, Minimal daily store maintenance due to the type of product, bonus program is well worth it if you are in a high volume store

Cons

Benefits are ok except the PTO policy, 2 weeks a year, you can't take it before you earn it and a lot of black out periods. The holidays (7) they pay for are only paid if you work on it and then it's time and a half otherwise no pay, no personal days and no sick time. Upper management can be a micro manager and once you've done something wrong you might as well forget moving forwards, they never forget anything. The pay for hourly employees is well below the industry standards.

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