A good place to learn, but not a good place to work - Automation Engineer Emerson Employee Review

2.0
Jan 24, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-People who haven't quit are great. -Good place to learn DeltaV/Syncade and then get out.

Cons

-Terrible retention. -Women are promoted at a slower rate than men. -Pay is not competitive for industry. -Expectation to work unpaid OT. -Poor work life balance. -Expectation to work above your experience level. -Management secretly promoted employees with pay raises after announcing we were on a pay raise freeze. -5 years to become fully vested in 401k. -Forces employees to come into office 2 days a week when job is capable of being 100% remote. *There has been mass quitting of employees in the last few months. New hires are leaving after less than a year and old employees have either quit or are interviewing. Employees who have stayed are being put in positions well above pay level without support because senior engineers have already left.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

2.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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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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