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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(762 total reviews)
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Edmund O Schweitzer III

83% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 762 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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762 reviews
2.0
Jul 6, 2017

Blood is thicker than water

Recommend
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Pros

Great benefit plan and a great stepping stone onto a real career.

Cons

Be sure to get your weekly helping of “juice” at Friday lunch because you are now one of us, welcome to the SEL Cult. Here you will learn that it’s not what you can do for the company but who you are related to, regularly go drinking with, or sleeping with. Having an opinion or an original thought isn’t welcomed, we are blind followers here. You now live and breathe for SEL, want a family life or a social life? Nope, now you are one of us so you don’t need anyone else. This mentality comes from Leadership and it’s not changing because guess what!? They just keep promoting themselves, don’t believe me? Check out the turnover rate for everyone that isn’t management. Wait, did I just have an original thought, oops not welcomed here. SEL will just keep doing the same thing over and over again. Take a leap of faith and go somewhere else who knows you might increase your salary and have something called worklife balance, try it as it’s an amazing thing.

3.0
Jul 5, 2017

Engineer 1

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting work, good benefits, esop

Cons

Less salary, less growth, field offices have less benefits

2.0
Jun 28, 2017

Run fast, run far!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are some nice benefits, such as the health center and the employee stock program. Also, you will work with some very nice, wonderful people.

Cons

There are so many reasons to not work at SEL. First of all, don't believe the hype about the values--employees are the only ones who try to live by them. To management, you are a replaceable part and a number. It doesn't matter how hard you work or how loyal you are to the company--they are willing to fire you at any time if you get on the wrong person's bad side. In many departments, it is a culture of fear, where people keep quiet in fear that if they say something, they will be let go. Overtime is pretty much expected, especially with salaried employees. The vacation time and sick leave are stingy. I could go on and on, but in short, if I knew what I know about SEL today when I was looking at the job, I would not take it.

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