Snap-on Reviews

Pros

Set your own schedule, good base salary, excellent benefits, tremendous financial growth potential.

Cons

Very demanding schedule. A great deal of traveling ( no company car provided). Difficult position to succeed at if you have a family, because it requires about 90% of your waking hours. Ridiculous amount of meetings in multiple locations and at all hours of the day.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the amount of meetings

Pros

Make your own way by working long hours, but the pay is good once your get established

Cons

Upper management wants you to buy into deals you don't need

Pros

Flexibility of schedule
Best products in the industry
Great teammates
Cant think of much more Pros to this particluar job.

Cons

Low pay
Low Commision
Incompetent upper management
Poor communication
The most confusing business model you'll ever encounter
Total lack of marketing and direction

Advice to Senior Management

Restructure your business model at a local level. Pay a better commission. Stop micromanaging your employees. Support your products with information and/or marketing.

Pros

They are using latest development tools in J2EE world.

Cons

CTO is more like a juggler who juggles directors every 6 months and after every couple of years we are back to the same tea structure not sure what is going on.

Quality of consultants that are hired is very poor and also we have seen that multiple members of the same family working , husband ,wife and uncle.

Pros

Great salary. Freedom to do the best job your can

Cons

Tons of paperwork which can reduce the time you have for your customers

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the red tape which will allow more ti me with the customers

Pros

Benefits are good. Pay was decent for blue collar and high for management.

Cons

Male oriented. Not enough women with authority.

Advice to Senior Management

Need women in management

Pros

proven system, great support, information easy to obtain, Field help, strong financial company

Cons

Long hours, can be very stressful

Pros

Middle-size corporation in good financial shape. Very good market placement. Expected to grow steadily in the next years. Good stock market performance

Cons

Focus on financial results, diminished regard for technical/quality content of the products, thin headcount, naive activity planning and resource allocation

Advice to Senior Management

stronger leadership, company departments must be aligned toward shared objectives, inject project management culture, improve technical awareness, prioritize technical content, improve product and manufacturing process quality

Pros

The environment is fun and projects are usually exciting. There is definitely a sense of pride in working at Snap-on.

Cons

Certain departments are vaguely linked together when they could instead be helping each other out. Rather conservative still even as the economy is back on the rise.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote from within and start looking at younger talent to bring a fresh look in as well as some new perspectives.

Pros

It's nice to know that you're working for the number one manufacturer in the industry. Most of the products are made in the USA and the company boasts this as a selling point. Very proud organization.

Cons

There is no such thing as a work-life balance in Snap-on. It's not uncommon for some management and sales staff to work 70 hours/week. The company continues to pay quarterly dividends to it's shareholders while locking down pay raises for its employees. Due to this, morale is down as there haven't been raises in 3 years....yes, 3 years!

Advice to Senior Management

Get your feet on the street. It's difficult to lead from the back of the room and keep your eyes on where you're going.