Ok to work for - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

3.0
May 12, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not too much overtime, certain teams are better than others to work for. They have some great products, and great customers. Pay is decent and benefits are standard.

Cons

Upper management is headstrong, and lacks connection with their employees. Overall, the company is very "old school" for being a technology/DCIM company. The company has several different "united" locations or purchased companies working under one division - but they don't seem to treat each other like equals. There is still a sense of separation between those purchased companies that can lead to head-butting and egos.

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Pros

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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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