All On You! - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

3.0
Dec 20, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

By and large you are responsible for selling a great product that comes with instant name recognition. Can do what you want in the sales territory.

Cons

Lots of layers of management besides your supervisor. There are business development managers that don't do any developing. It is nearly impossible to make a bonus because of the buckets you have to fill rather than being based on growing a territory. Price is a hindrance to further sales, but management doesn't understand competitive market. Too many different business units only confuses the hell out of customers.

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Pros

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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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