Small Company Mentality, Corporate Politics - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

4.0
May 30, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fast paced environment, booming industry, high quality products, lean and efficient processes. Plenty of growth potential and management encourages inter-departmental transfers.

Cons

Management objectives sometimes unclear. Also, more corporate politics than any other organization I've worked for. Also, as much as a team environment is essential in this kind of business, the various departments don't work as cohesively as they should (more finger pointing and politics than necessary).

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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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