Way too big of an organization to be effective - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

3.0
16 Jul 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Technology and approach was interesting at the time Great co-workers, decent project budgets. Opportunity for advancement if you were willing to move or travel.

Cons

Lots of layoffs, good employees were let go because they didn't mesh with the corporate culture. Lack of communication between St Louis and remote locations and divisions. With distributed enterprise, lots of conference calls at odd hours of the day and lots of travel.

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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

2.0
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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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