Good long term, but not much potential - Design Engineer Emerson Employee Review

3.0
19 Aug 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good flexibility with time and allowed for good work/life balance. People are helpful and try and show you the ropes. A lot of your coworkers are very very smart and know what it is they're doing. You will learn a lot here and it will test your knowledge consistently. There is some travel required for most major positions so you do get to see some places. Lot's of training and lots of opportunity for continued education within the company.

Cons

Old school way of management. Everything is based on seniority and anything and everything needs to be approved no matter how little the change is. It will have to go through multiple levels. There is no real company culture as it varies from department to department so you never get a sense of how the company really is. The engineers have a big air of arrogance to them... so if you're not in that department, you're considered beneath them... not smart enough and not good enough.

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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

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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