Can be a rewarding place to work - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

4.0
May 21, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Emerson generally tends to be a place where your contribution is valued and desired. Inventorship on patents is generously rewarded and pay in general is considered good by industry standards.

Cons

Emerson has not been a place, however, of much upward mobility, at least in engineering. The tendency is to increase your workload and responsibility without any adjustment to title or pay grade. This is especially true when dividing up the responsibilities of someone who leaves among those remaining instead of hiring a replacement.

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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

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2.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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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