Fun at first. Then back to square one. - Strategic Planner Emerson Employee Review

2.0
Jun 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

As an MBA, you will get to see how business decisions and stakeholders are managed at the highest levels. You will learn about important management metrics for manufacturing businesses and some considerations for a global business operating at scale.

Cons

From a career standpoint, you will see some pretty cool stuff for the couple of years you are in corporate, but you will will not receive the career path to general management you are sold by MBA recruiters. Pay is lacking. Executive sponsorship is lacking. Outside companies don’t recognize the value of your experience as a former Corp Strategic Planner. Once you get dumped into a BU, you’re on your own again.

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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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