Was Better, now a Outsourcing Central - Engineer Emerson Employee Review

This review is for the Gulf Coast Engineering Center in Houston. Years ago Emerson was still quite good at investing in engineers, send them to school to learn about the very product they'd use (DeltaV); not any more as most projects these days are 70-80% hours allocated to offshore engineering centers (India, Costa Rica..etc). This is bad because most Houston engineers (except few) no longer know the real "know-how" and only have the supervisory roles in terms of making sure projects are on time, within budget, and control project scope changes with clients. If you want to learn DeltaV, this is not the place for you. Better place would be smaller system integrators that actually do the configuration (programming) work within US. This may be just reality as outsourcing is the norm not just within Emerson, but all its automation competitions in the quest to cut costs and maximize margins. Some managers stress to keep "some" minor project roles within US but that's too little to make any real dent in cultivating new talents. Career wise, there is no room for upward mobility and growth; it's a flat hierarchy of engineers and above them, PMs and resource managers, no place for anything else.