The company name looks good on the resume but too much inside polictics - Database Dev Emerson Employee Review

3.0
7 Mar 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are okay. You need to negotiate your salary and may get what you are looking for. They may expect you to do things away from your profession. And these expectation get higher by time

Cons

Management is too restricted. Your work will be micro manage. They may change your cubicle more than often. As a IT professional they may want you to give network support and get your hands dirty even if you work as application analyst or a developer

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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

2.0
25 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great immediate supervisor and their boss. Made top-down communications tolerable. Great co-workers and great collaboration that lifted the entire team.

Cons

(1) RIF based on tenure, not performance. HR is too powerful a department, and everyone fears it. (2) Tenure made you lazy, killed creativity, initiative, and promoted a "yes" culture. (3) During COVID layoffs, CEO pay went from $3.7 million to $15.x million, while employees endured 25% furloughs for 3 months, and management 10% reduction in pay for 6 months - explain how that is reasonable. (4) CEO declared DEI as the way forward for career mobility, and a lot of young, promising talent walked out the door, including DEI-qualified minorities. (5) I was one of those minorities.

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