Avocent- Worst place with no career path for employees - Senior Software Engineer Emerson Employee Review

2.0
Oct 28, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Worked here for 2 years of my career. Good brand name.

Cons

1) No quality work. 2) mostly support type of work 3) No leaders. No vision. 4) Only those who can show off their little work can survive. 5) Negative environment 6) No job security. 7) No processes 8) Random appraisal 9) No learning opportunities. 10) No onsite

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Cons

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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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