Great company with strong foundation to remain relevant in the industry - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

4.0
May 27, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong presence in industry. Growth creates career development opportunities. Strongly favors engineering background but room for other skills to grow. Opportunity for assignments outside of home country. Lots of talent around the world.

Cons

Hard to become differentiated. Slow to move or correct compensation for fast risers. Lots of pressure to hit growth and profit numbers.

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Pros

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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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