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Rockwell Automation

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25yr vets and 2 year newbies - Director Rockwell Automation Employee Review

1.0
Jan 25, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Stock price remains high and they pay relatively well compared to peers.

Cons

50% of the company has been there less than 5 years. Let that sink in. The people on top do not like company - yet they are under pressure to innovate so they wipe out teams and rebuild them with outside talent. The result is the middle layer of people with working knowledge can be completely neutralized in the course of a meeting. Lots of new people showing up at the middle top - mostly cast offs from failed peers. These newbies struggle for several months, make broad changes (layoffs) without even getting to know their people, then hire their buddies/vendors from the previous company. It's a tired old cycle, one that plagued Johnson Controls, Honeywell, and even GE. They lack a way to create leaders and are constantly looking to Free Agents to fix them. Consultants are having a field day here...we are talking 7 figures in each division because the leaders are simply political survivors with eyes on their own board seats elsewhere and retirement...they can't actually make leadership decisions.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Clean Comfortable Good pay Good people Lots of overtime

Cons

Work gets boring. Short career path in test. Lots of overtime

4.0
Apr 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Solid compensation: Good benefits, mid-range bonuses (when available), pension & mid-range RRSP matching. Decent vacation but it doesn't increase until you're there 15 or 20 years. Smart people: Working with long-standing teams of software developers and the controller engineers is great. Sophisticated and complex challenges regularly. Implementing AI: They're being very considered about how they implement it & doing it at a measured (not slow and not slam-it-in) pace.

Cons

Process: It's highly, highly process-driven. The layers can feel burdensome. Bottom line: They're chasing it with work being moved from North America and Europe to Asia and South America. There's definitely an old boys club and lots of references generalizating and comparing generations. Environmental policy contradictions: They say they want to be environmentally friendly, but have imposed RTO & are only hiring within commuting range of offices.

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