Could be worse - Technical Lead Emerson Employee Review

3.0
4 May 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good opportunity to grow as long as you're willing to push yourself out of your comfort zone and take the initiative to seize job opportunities. Management does the best with the amount of slack their given.

Cons

Benefits and compensation lag behind the marketplace. Since the company's head office is in Austin, it's easy to feel like the Calgary office is forgotten about, and local management doesn't have enough control over the business.

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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

2.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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