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Summit Electric Supply

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Summit Electric Supply reviews

2.8

36% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)

Dwayne Roberts

48% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Summit Electric Supply has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 131 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Summit Electric Supply employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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131 reviews
3.0
Nov 18, 2020

Great people awful benefits.

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Pros

Summit is working to change the culture and has finally decided to get with the future and change its technology supporting the business. The work schedule is flexible and they really help you when needed. The hr department and the training departments have made amazing strides. The people are amazing.

Cons

Health benefits are absolutely garbage. The business is a 500 mill a year company but Health insurance costs 700 dollars for a family. The business is pulling itself in too many directions and leadership struggles to keep the ship afloat because of to many talking heads. No formal policy backing and enforcement. There is alot of well just do it this time and a refusal to adhere to the set forth policy. The sales side is pushy and has no understanding of how the corporate departments work and try to circumvent any attempts made to establish procedures for support. Alot of I want it yesterday requsts. Little to no communication between the corporate departments, Corporate decision makers and sales team. When projects are initiated the business has a bad habbit of pushing last minute work to the corporate departments with no project lead up time or understanding of the work load the corporate support teams are carrying. Leadership focuses only on sales and makes no effort to understand the corporate support teams or their needs. Leadership absent and in meetings to often. New ceo only met with sales teams and made no effort to meet with the it team. Work load is un balanced within teams causing work overload for employees.

2.0
Apr 24, 2020

Book of the month

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Pros

Some really good people work there

Cons

Executive team led by following the latest management book on the market. Before that was successfully implemented we were off chasing a new strategy from another book. Constant whiplash from new directives. Peter Principle applies to senior operations management - job is too big. Petty and vindictive and focusing on micro instead of macro. Lack of empathy and understanding of burdens of work demanded from field.

2.0
Jan 15, 2020

IT moving backwards

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Pros

The people at Summit are great to work with

Cons

Managers have constant meetings and are hardly ever available. CIO has no IT background and is removing some very intelligent employees. Instead of working with leaders to get better they give very open ended goals for leaders/ managers to achieve then let them go when they believe they aren't producing. I personally left a career to go to Summit and loved it there but when they changed CIO during my 2nd year I had no chance.. Pretty unprofessional of a company to hire a bunch of new people then switch gears and hire new management.

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