It's the wild west - Engineer Emerson Employee Review

2.0
30 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You won't exceed a 40 hour week. You'll never have to be worked to capacity or over-worked. Vacation time is quite good.

Cons

The company acts as a "good old boys club" only the people in "know" would be promoted regardless of their poor work ethic or lack of ability to do the job. As a result of this the entire management chain is largely full of incompetence while the hard working individual contributor is left frustrated. The management to individual contributor ratio is massive and causes tons of dysfunction as you can never get a clear answer on the work you're supposed to be doing. One manager will tell you one thing, then a director will tell you another, and then a VP a completely separate thing. As a result very little progress ever gets made at the company. No one gets held accountable for poor work, and there seems to be no benefit to working hard, the harder you work the more boundaries you run into. Optics at this company matter waaay more than how much work you actually contribute. It's an okay place to work if you're okay going in 40 hours a week and turning your brain off, otherwise stay away. As a male working there it also didn't appear that women were treated well, I had not heard any co-workers or managers ever say positive things about any female co-workers.

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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

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2.0
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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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