Panduit Reviews

Pros

The benefits package is pretty good. There's also something to be said for giving someone a vacation day on short notice if it's really needed--they're good about that.

Cons

People are often required to perform tasks without being given the proper resources to do so. They don't do a very good job mentoring employees who are legitimately trying to work their way up. They would rather pigeon-hole them into one position. That is, unless you are working in one of the product groups that upper management cares about.

Advice to Senior Management

Some of the leadership decisions made, especially when it comes to staffing, is very shallow-sighted. But there is a reason the company has been around for 60 years.

Pros

Industry Leader, Global Leader, Innovative products and marketing programs. Very active in the distribution, integrator, engineer, and end customer markets.

Cons

Thee seems to be a deterioration of the culture that existed in the 90's. Morale has slipped, and people tend to work to cover their backside

Advice to Senior Management

Hire a consulting firm to help the organization work to create a new culture, so that employees at Panduit will once again willingly go the extra mile for the organization

Pros

Panduit has fantastic products, always ahead of the competition, innovative and forward thinking and dedicated people that are not management.

Cons

This company is very hard on their sales people. It's never enough. They set the standard so high and put so much pressure on the outside sales. Unfortunately, you feel that you're set up to fail right from the beining. There's no trust. All of the top performers are leaving for a reason! In the past, we wouldn't even entertain other offers but now, jumping ship as fast as we can and saying that we got a promotion just to get out! Sad to see all of the turn-over with this company and from people that have SEVERAL years tenure. Panduit needs to get a clue! Moral is horrible!

Advice to Senior Management

Wouldn't help even if I had a great suggestion.

Pros

The Pay is pretty good

Cons

most of management does not know what goes on in warehouse,
Management doesnt care about anyone but themselves,
a person to holds a production rate of 190% is treated no better than someone who holds a rate of 100% and receives the same raise.
all promotions are given by senority, not experience. 180 employees, 11 2nd and 3rd level positions.

Advice to Senior Management

none because they wouldnt listen.

Pros

great products, new product development, when they deliver

Cons

Management treats staff,especially sales, poorly...they have never done that job, so they don't respect that job. I would challenge upper management to spend 90 days being a Panduit sales rep.

Advice to Senior Management

give raises and respect to people and have a reasonable quota for sales

Pros

Had a wonderful career at Panduit and left on good terms. Forward thinking. Constantly drive change to differentiate. Big investor in new product development.

Cons

Recently moved to a complex matrix structure which slows decision making. Took away large amount of empowerment.

Advice to Senior Management

Lean up the corporate office. Invest in the regions and field. Continue to invest in innovative products and programs.

Pros

Great quality products
Nice building
Some of the people are really nice
Suburban location
There is nothing else positive to say about this company

Cons

Terrible work environment
Lack of accountability and responsibility
Pay could be higher
Everything shrouded in secrecy
Disrespect from management
Cannot retain employees
Blatant favoritism and nepotism

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees. Morale is extremely low and people are miserable. Many seasoned veterans are quitting for a reason. The Panduit name is slipping in the industry. Stop treating employees like numbers and trying to rule by fear and intimidation. Pretty soon poor decisions will catch up.

Pros

Free parking, free water, health care, cafeteria, good location. The new building is better than the previous location. Some Flex-time - depending on your department and staffing.

Cons

There is no communication. The managers treat the underlings like garbage. There are always secret meetings. There is a huge fear factor of losing your job, even though you really don't want to work there but have bills to pay. It is depressing. The stress is Panormous and has taken a toll on my health. Employees/departments are purposely baited against one another.

Advice to Senior Management

Please stop running the company like it was the tv show "Game of Thrones". You are not kings; you are merely people in power. Remember that somebody has to do the work - you all are in meetings all day cooking up some new idea to mess with our heads - you think that will improve morale and productivity - well, it doesn't.

Pros

They have been a financially stable company in a rough economy.

Cons

Lack of training. Poor communication. A lot of secrets. Unreasonable quotas. Unreasonable deadlines. Too much on everyone's plate. Upper management doesn't listen. Managament rules by fear and intimidation. They are always taking away more and more things that drew you to them in the first place. Almost all ideas are shot down and made possible by one or few. Favoritism runs rampant. HR has been implemented to protect upper management, not employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in your employees, they carry years of knowledge. When the economy picks up, what do you plan on doing to replace the engineers, operators, and everyone else that have made your company strong, leave? They all talk and dream about leaving on a daily basis. Put yourself in our shoes!

Pros

free parking, many nice people, clean office environment, global company, still growing, free coffee, good suburban location, formerly excellent heritage and leadership that created a culture of teamwork that is not totally destroyed yet

Cons

exceedingly poor communication between departments, within departments and horrid from top management on down to the rest of us. Turf battles between departments so bad that it would be laughable if it were not so true... worse than actual silos; IT department is perfect example of "we versus them" as opposed to "us" and "team". They take credit for other's work and ideas unless things go wrong then they blame others.

And recent promotions make you wonder if simply walking around and talking is a skill or is it just another sign of utter unfairness, amazing ignorance or sadly, even contempt for real talent that is still there.

Advice to Senior Management

growth and success is not happening because of your leadership, but rather in spite of it. please, recognize you have a lot of talented and hard working people who are being ignored for promotions, ignored for their ideas and otherwise poorly treated. Focus on a few not over 20 things and you may actually complete some of them. Communicate more with your best asset, us. your new recognition program is an explicit statement of your knowledge of how bad things are. you do not need a program of the month, you need to build a culture of team work and openness and appreciation for the great work many people are doing. look at the body language; people are not happy there because of what you have allowed to happen. Panduit was better than this and can be better than this but you must lead.