Field Service Engineer - Field Service Engineer Emerson Employee Review

3.0
9 Nov 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good starter job to get into a large company. Company car, independence to set up your schedule.

Cons

long hours, weekend work, on call, management could give a crap about you as a Field Tech. The pay starts out lower then most other UPS companies like Eaten, or APC. Other UPS companies give there employees sales commissions Emerson does not. They have a point system that is very inadequate like $100,000 in sales will get you a PlayStation 3. Third party sales companies get all the money from any sale even though you did all the leg work. They are not willing to pay people enough to keep them, witch leads to techs having to travel outside of your area to support lost employees in different areas. They roll out new programs and units without proper testing and they fail for the first 2 years until someone gets their head out of their ^$$. No one gets fired unless you are in the field.

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Cons

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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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