Legacy Oil and Gas company that is trying to appeal to DEI - Sr Software Engineer Emerson Employee Review

1.0
3 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Profit sharing is usually good. Work life balance is good.

Cons

Legacy company values, revenue is based on Oil and Gas, the parking lot is segregated based on work experience. No consistency in the organization, each group in the organization will use different proprietary tools, processes, file sharing tools, etc. For source control, some groups will use GitLab, others TFS, other ClearCase, others GitHub, others Azure. For messaging, some groups use Teams, some Webex, others email. For document storage, some teams store docs in teams others in SharePoint others in ClearCase. If you don't have someone to ask, you won't be able to find documentation on your own. All of these decisions seem to be arbitrary and lead to confusion and lack of collaboration. The DEI agenda pushed from the top down seems solely for publicity. The department Oil and Gas was re-branded to Energy and Transportation, but nothing in that business model has changed.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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