Pros

Trane will work with you with getting time off if something unexpected comes up. They reward their employees with dinners and various giveaways.

Cons

The human resources at Trane are very catty. It's like you are back in middle school. The girls talk about everyone.

Advice to Senior Management

There were multiple leader ship changes at Trane. Some changes were not for the best, but what can you do.

Pros

Excellect 401k program - dollar for dollar match up to 6% of pay plus they automatically contribute another 3% of your salary to an employee stock ownership program. Very easy to build-up a big nest egg. Medical/Dental/Vision also excellent and affordable (you can earn discounts on premiums by practicing a healthy lifestyle). Trane also allows for reasonable advancement opportunities. Immediate supervisors understand that you have a personal life outside work, and will accomodate within reason. Pay, in my opinion, is excellent compared to similar jobs in the industry. Finally, Trane is well respected in the industry, good brand, strong products.

Cons

Managment seems slow to react at times, competition often beats Trane out of the gates. Internal communication is adequate, but could be improved. Pay-range within a particular job description is farily narrow (for example, $50-55k) so the only real way to increase your earnings is to move up through the ranks. However, that being said, starting pay at Trane is above industry standards, so you won't exactly have to sacrifce while waiting to move up. The corporate structure is a bit suffocating at times, and there is not a lot of flexability in certain areas. Although, if you can win your supervisor over to a new idea, they will normally push to get it implemented.

Advice to Senior Management

Act first. Stop allowing the competition to walk all over us before we respond.

Pros

The company has the culture of a smaller company despite its size. Management seems genuine. Pay for sales is pretty high compared to the industry standard from what I hear. The company has good people for the most part.

Cons

It is difficult to progress from a sales position into other areas in the company or transfer to other offices. There is little career development from an entry position in sales. The only option for upward mobility is to become a sales manager after 10 years, which comes with a pay cut. From there, it is possible to move into higher level positions.

Advice to Senior Management

Be independent from conglomerates who take Trane's profits to supplement their other poor businesses.

Pros

Still some great people in the company, but they are extremely frustrated and won't be there much longer.

Cons

Terrible communication and approval process, lack of decisiveness. Don't know the implications of IR ownership. All of the corporate changes are a distraction.

Advice to Senior Management

Use your people for feedback. Don't just talk strategy, implement something proactive, less reactive.

Pros

Relatively stable, decent pay, short commute

Cons

Cube-ville...... open office environment. Packed in like rats. Noisy and can't hear yourself think.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a plan. We're floundering. IR buying Trane has not improved life from where I sit.

Pros

Compensation abilities, freedom in sales environment. Smart engineers to work with and work for. Good support from the main Trane headquarters. I felt that mistakes were forgiven and part of the job, and freedom as an entrepreneur was great. I would have like to have a more team environment if possible as I felt as a team, we could have accomplished much more.

Cons

Dog eat dog sales attitude between sales engineers, limited growth opportunities, leadership does not promote change but rather maintaining the status quo. It was not clearly defined what was deductable or not deductable and building relationships, a lot of money came from my own pocket.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to sales engineers and engage in growth feedback, especially for new engineers. Jumping out as an independent contractor with little guidance is a tough job.

Pros

Good salary and above average benefits, especially company contributions to the 401k plan. It is a solid company, leading an always expanding market. High quality product at reasonable prices.

Cons

All their manufacturing facilities are in little towns (cheap land) where there is not too much to do. Families pay the price (especially youngsters whom get pushed away by the lack of activities and other well paid jobs). They also need to invest some of the extra cash that Poses produced for the investors. During his tenure, no important new developments or products were introduced.

Advice to Senior Management

Start sharing your bonuses with lower level employees. Hourly workers are paid dirt cheap. Top managers make good bonuses and expect high performance levels from all employees, even those being paid well below market averages. Not an smart move!.

Pros

Solid market presence. Job security. Trane is a market leader in controls and equipment.

Cons

Political environment and "mistakes will be remembered" attitude. Everyone is learning as they move through life. A little more understanding as you age with the company would be great. It relates to maturing in general. As a teenager, you make choices for the wrong reasons. In your professional career, the same rules apply.

Advice to Senior Management

We really aren't THAT stupid. You can trust us with ideas and "just thinking out loud" concepts. We need to know how we are approaching new challenges.....not just policy changes. We are invested in the company and willing to accept new ideas and change. It's all the grayness that causes rumor and doubt. Be more open. A lot of the idle chit chat about who is doing what and where the company is going could be alleviated with open information exchange.

Pros

The Name Trane. The pay is okay, but the money that you make is put right back into paying for your families medical benifits. Every year the cost of healthcare almost doubled.

Cons

Management is incompetent, terrible benefits, there is no room for advancement. When you start working you are promised vacation days and sick days and then they took it away. People that had been there long enough to receive 3 weeks vacation did not receive it. Management changed the policy and no one was grandfathered in. Customers always complain about the quality of the equipment that they paid a lot of money for.

Advice to Senior Management

All management needs to resign and let someone who knows what they are doing take over.