packer

software engineer

senior product engineer

maintenance technician

forklift operator

Legrand

If you're looking for a "tell all" of sorts about Legrand, then look no further.  Despite all of my prior experience being discredited by the staffing agency (Prologistix) I took a job at entry level with the hopes of advancing.  More than a year later I am at Material Handler 3. My wife hired on there as well.  Right away we observed how select people get to take it easy, even taking extra breaks while everyone else works like slaves, some to the point of injury. They haven't gone 100 days free of work related injuries since I've been there although their little safety board reports otherwise.  I have watched supervisors immediately try to blame the employees who were hurt there.  

After working there about 90 days a Lead position became available in my respective area.  There were several prospects for the position.  Myself, having over 2 decades of supervisory experience, 8 of which in a relevant field, a Trainer who had long since paid her dues to the company, an amazing Auditor who knows our systems better than anybody, and last but not least, a Loader from another department.  The loader was everyone's buddy so he got the position.  LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER  HE GOT PROMOTED he had the nerve to become extremely volatile toward my wife, screaming, using profanity, name calling, and he even kept stepping toward her like he was about to get violent.  There were at least 5 witnesses including a Supervisor.  My wife ended her shift because she didn't feel safe at work and went to Human Resources the next day even though I was prepared to have our attorney meet us at work.  The Lead who did that did not miss one minute of work.  Probably didn't even get a reprimand.  My wife received a phone call the following Monday and was terminated without any valid reason or cause.  When you go up against a Lead or a Supervisor at Legrand you are fighting a losing battle, and you become a target.  The expression "thick as thieves" rings very true within the Legrand offices.

Fast forward to my personal experiences since.  I ended up switching departments a couple of times (not by my choice).  At this latest one (Wiremold) right away I noticed a lot of things that were either not being done or not being done correctly.  I was trained by a guy who had already given his notice to quit, and he did not care about the company or doing right by the company at this point, so right away I was set up for failure.  I started taking the blame for a lot of things that were not my doing or not my fault.  The Supervisor at Wiremold has a Napoleon complex, no leadership skills, and no people skills whatsoever.  She is highly manipulative and the HR lady is her buddy at work as well as outside of work from what I've been told.  They even have each other on speed dial.  I made the grave mistake of going to HR thinking that she would do the right thing, and now I'm a target just like everyone else who has gone up against a Supervisor at Legrand.  I got written up an hour after I left the HR office out of retaliation, even though said behavior violates company policy (and Labor Laws if I'm not mistaken).  My only time ever being written up in over 30 years in the workforce.  I switch throughout several positions there daily and literally kill myself to do a decent job for Legrand, and this individual sits in her office all day looking for fault in everything I do and out of the 1,000,000 things that I do for them weekly she finds the one thing that has fault and makes it a point to verbally beat me up about it.   She talks down to almost all of the Wiremold employees on second shift, and she looks at all of us in the same manner that a normal person would look at insects.  None of us want to work for her but apparently we are all expendable but she isn't.  

The HR department is among the worst I have ever seen in all of my years in the workforce.  Our shipping office is the absolute worst that I have ever encountered.  The pay could be better.  They recently revamped the pay metrics, taking away our production incentives, but paying more hourly.  Even this was a tactic to insult us on our quarterly raises.  My raise looks like less than $20 a week, even though I cover several positions there.  They say a picture speaks a thousand words.  If you decide to accept a position at Legrand, look around.  The people working at Pass & Seymour are smiling, laughing even most times.  Then look at Wiremold.  You'd think that they all had deaths in their families.  Avoid Wiremold if you can.  It is a broken department and those who are in charge of it are seeking people to blame.  DO NOT let them sell you on one of their "backup" positions.  They will run all over you and expect for you to perform several job functions all day every day, even though you're only getting ONE paycheck.  Good luck, prospects.

For starters, they REQUIRE you to go through a temp agency. There's very few positions in which you could possibly get hired on immediately and this is due to their atrocious turnover rate, which they lie to you about in "training". 

I liked my job at first until I realized how poor the overall management is and how petty quite a few of the people are. Some higher ups won't follow their own safety rules. Supervisors and other "higher ups" will breathe down your neck so often it's uncomfortable. Even when there's absolutely no work to do, they want you to be working. Even though the lack of jobs seemed to be due to the companies own lack of coordination. 

Some positions were worked much harder and set to a higher standard than others. This is a place where there is 100% shift favoritism. It was noted by MANY employees that the 2nd and 3rd shift could basically do no wrong and did no work but the absolute bare minimum, and all the brunt work was dumped onto the 1st shift workers. There were numerous occasions that constant mistakes would have to be corrected by 1st shift workers due to 2nd and 3rd shifts negligence, and it was basically an unspoken rule that you couldn't say anything about those shifts because it was considered "shift targeting".

Because you are forced to work through a temp agency, they can fire you out of the blue, with no warning, for the most ridiculous reasons. You can end up getting fired purely for doing the same thing as everyone else does daily like chitchatting with other employees and asking for help even if it is part of your actual job. I am honestly surprised when I hear there are people who have been there for more than a year. It is actually a shock to other employees whenever someone comes back for their second day of work let alone their second week. Other employees would actually tell you to run and not work there and I can understand why. You also cannot even qualify for benefits or overtime until you are full-time which could be as little as a month(depending on how desperate the position is for people), or as long as over a year.

I would have given this company 1 star, but the only "upsides" to the job, and I say that lightly, were that most of the people I came across were relatively friendly, and that the pay was decent. But don't expect a pay raise for a minimum of a year, because even if you work multiple job titles, they don't care enough to give you a raise and the raise is minimum. I urge everyone to stay away from this company. It is horribly managed and was an unfortunate major waste of my time.

I've been with the company for 11 years this year. I'm still there. Since new management has taken over, everything has gone to the dogs. This new management are all young, fresh out of college, with no real experience yet in the field. But you can't tell them that. Because they have a piece of paper that says they went to college, therefore they are smarter than you, and don't give a care in the world about anything that the older employees who have been there for years, and know how the business works, says. 

They're driving themselves into the ground under the guise that things are getting better and they're more into teamwork. Yeah right. There's too many bosses and not enough workers. The left hand never knows what the right hand is doing because communication sucks and despite the effort, has never gotten better.

When I started, and up until new management took over, I was happy to come into my job. I was happy to be there and perform. I was unbothered by overtime, anything. So happy. Now, I hate everything. I hate my job. I hate the mental anguish and being put down, disrespected, and belittled by the management when i've been doing my job successfully for years.

It's not just me. You could cut the tension in this place with a knife. All the employees are on edge all the time because management keeps us this way. It's no longer an enjoyable place to work. If at all possible, i'd avoid this place like the plague. They want you to do more than just what your job entails, because without you doing more than one job, you're valueless to the company. (Yes. I had a manager tell me I was pretty much valueless. To my face.)

So. Yeah. I don't see this place's doors being open much longer. I'm looking to get out to a place that will at least respect me and treat me like a human.

What is the best part of working at the company?
 I was able to help the clients and internal team members on escalated projects. Especially enhanced the process to meet customer deadlines with their collaboration.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Each company has their own obstacles and challenges which depending on a good management or not. Legrand is a good company, however, I hope the old management and their inner circles need to be modified... so Legrand may be able to advance and achieve the market value in Technology, sustainable employees wellness, engage in the truth opportunities to grow, with SMART goal and TQM to moving forward. Perplexing and mislead may cause one company fall behind.  


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very challenging if you are trying to do the right things and not within the inner circles...

Everyone knows when need to moving forward or time to get out in peacefully. Let the management do what they need to do. Good deed will be bless, for the bad deed, one will be encounter the price that must pay. 

As an employee, one just need to be truthful, optimistic, integrity, firmness to the code of honesty, be helpful/supportive, collaboration with joy in spirit... one will find the truth happiness in life... It's not hard when one has the Will...

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Mainly focus to solve the problem for clients despite the negative environments from management; within company policies and codes of conduct. Especially, direct management acknowledged and approved it.

A lot of instabilities among leadership team from the top down. Constant changes and appears to be no stable direction. Not much comfort in knowing you will have a job tomorrow.

A lot of staff still working at home and at this point thats unfair and ridiculous. All of the work from home staff all got a big pay raises to stay home while they no longer have to pay for child care and high gas prices. The rest of us staff who have to report to site everyday, got nothing extra to risk our health and well being. No extra raises, no extra bonus...totally unfair to the rest of us. Those of us reporting to the sites we got more repsonsibiity, and more work to make up for everyone else who sits at home for the past 2 years. UNFAIR. Beware cause this company will also make you work extra hours (because of staffing shortages) if you are salaried, and you will never get compensated for it. 

Negative culture overall, and it keeps getting worse. A lot of people leaving the company for a reason. This company does not care about safety, they claim they do, but they dont. If you have medical condition, they do not care. 


I've spent time in this company and all I can say is that management is the issue. The people you work around, help out l, and get products created for are wonderful. The pay ia fair for the job I did and had no issues with learning and doing my work. Work can be very demanding as you may work every saturday, so difficult to have an outside life when you spend 6 days a week at your job. The communication between technicians and management is absolutely poor. You can tell them the issues at hand but you can't help them understand it. They dont listen to their people and they dont appreciate them as they should. The potential of being a great company is there but they change management so much its unstable. If you're willing to work for a company for the pay, benefits when hired, and love the work you do, then by all means go for it. When management doesn't understand their people, supervisors who would rather control their people and dictate everything they do than actually be involved with the job around them, and appreciate what we do then they could be a fantastic company to work for. Hope this helps your job hunt. 

Over worked under paid and no one knows what their doing anymore. I’ve experienced so much change in the years I’ve been here. I used to love to come now not so much. The company used to be really good to the employees, now we’re all just there to make them money no matter what it cost to our families. They used to promote from within now they hire outside of the company. People they hire have absolutely no skills or knowledge of the job they are doing. They rely on employees who have been there for years to help them do their jobs. Sometimes you won’t get the correct pay for doing a another job in the company that pays more. If you don’t say something they don’t fix it. They have many shifts now so that’s a plus if you can only work weekends 12 hr shifts pay total is for 40 hrs though or  Monday through Thursday 10 hrs or Monday through Friday 8 hr shifts but they are still working overtime

Worked with the company for 4 years. Spent three years driving impactful process improvements, updating processes, and creating educational resources, collaborating with other divisions. All in addition to my regular work load with limited to no resources. Spent nights and weekends away from my kids to complete task. I was told 3 consecutive years that I was a high performer and received recognition for it. Expressed my interest in advancing at the beginning of year 4 and immediately got pulled from all leadership meetings and projects. 6 months later I was informed I was getting laid off. In my tenure I would put my work against any other director in that organization. Asked to finish the year however denied and let go right before the holidays. Worked so hard then kicked to the curve. No place for leaders that care. 

 I assemble electrical product, expert assembly person, management poor always changing schedules and work methods, culture low morale because of marginal leadership, use to enjoy coming to work not now, shift diversity as production goals not equal because back shifts leave many jobs incomplete with very poor quality, Maintenance Manager lazy and passes the buck to unskilled mechanics, production tools and equipment always breaking down, Safety department is all talk and no action, to many near miss accidents. Lean manufacturing concept not working because product flow and schedule changing disruptive. 

New management, management came from manufacturing backgrounds. Assembly area well organized and operated great because supervisor is original one and is well respected and knows what he’s doing. Fabrication side  is run like a manufacturing area. There used to machines making product  and do not have a clue the difference between a manufacturing company and a fabrication department. There clue less that it’s skilled individuals that make the products. Fabrication supervisor has no fabrication background got job because  he is friends with new department manager. There is a running joke among fab workers that management is more concerned about paperwork  than making the actual products. We envision them telling the customers that call and complain there order is very late, and there answer is that we have 3 people getting all the paperwork ready after the 1 person gets done making it. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Packer 13 salaries reported	$16.96 per hour
Software engineer 3 salaries reported	$72,667 per year
Senior product engineer 3 salaries reported	$68,873 per year
Maintenance technician 3 salaries reported	$23.50 per hour
Forklift operator 3 salaries reported	$17.88 per hour

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