Company on the verge of being shutdown - Software Quality Assurance Test Engineer Emerson Employee Review

1.0
4 Dec 2015
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Pros

As my title says, This company is expected to shut down. We started with great vision and hired about 300 people . But now they ended up having 20 people. Upper management doesnt know what is the difference between what we can achieve and what we cannot achieve. Continuous unimaginable goals by upper management led to failed product which was delivered to customer.In turn customer ditched the company. Managers do micro management watching time when employee enters and leaves. Also they were instrumental in who stays and who leaves the company. Personally, I have seen my Ex- Manager made 2 American and 2 Indian guys to resign or laid off. Every quarter they lay off people , that too hard working people. Only who suck managers balls will get to stay. No promotions , no salary hike but extended hours of working I was one of the Top Performers,I was laid off when i asked for promotion, also I was given memo for asking promotion. My advice please stay away !!! At any cost Pros: 1.Decent Salary 2.Good Health and Leave Benefits

Cons

1.Micromanagement. 2.Upper Management has no direction 3. Politics and favoritism 4. Middle Management has no guts to tell upper management about imminent failure

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(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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