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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(763 total reviews)
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Edmund O Schweitzer III

83% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Culture & values

3.9

Career opportunities

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.5

Senior management

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 763 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 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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Reviews by job title

763 reviews
3.0
Jan 15, 2018

Marketing Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Employee-owned company that doesn't let the quarterly earnings influence its customer support and investment plans. Invests for the long term. Smart engineers that build great equipment.

Cons

Very family-run business (even though it is employee owned). Don't question or challenge the executives. They will use FBI level surveillance on you to find a reason to fire you. Surveillance includes monitoring all email, IMs, cell phone text and voice conversations and even using advanced listening gear to hear conversations outside. Need to provide objectives for employees and let them implement them and not micromanage them. Let them do their jobs.

2.0
Jan 12, 2018

Not great.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free lunch on Fridays. Lucrative ESOP somewhat makes up for sub-par compensation levels and insurance. Many of the lower level managers are actually nice. Work can be interesting, but it's hard to focus on it because of all the politics.

Cons

Rampant nepotism. Cult of personality centered on founder. Very conservative, traditional company averse to adopting progressive policies. Sub-par compensation levels and insurance. Upper management stacked with bullies. Palouse area isn't a very vibrant or exciting place, and is just far enough away from real civilization to be frustrating. Friday lunch presentations are little more than cheerleading. Negative news is only shared after the consequences of some disastrous decision have become self-evident, and the company realizes that it has to clear the air.

3.0
Jan 6, 2018

assemler

Assembly line worker
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good company and good benefits and steady or the same routine if you like steady schedule

Cons

boring and doing the same thing with the same people for about 5 to 6 days out of week and you have to watch what you say because anyone can go up to HR and report you

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