Good engineering firm but limited advancement opportunities - Systems Engineer Emerson Employee Review

Great job with minimal experience in industrial sales. On-the-job training and management at this level have great upside, with the ability to earn a high commission rate.

The larger organization is siloed and slow-moving. Finding opportunities to network and grow in this position is up to the individual employee.

Great immediate supervisor and their boss. Made top-down communications tolerable. Great co-workers and great collaboration that lifted the entire team.

(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.