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      Formerly Great Company Losing its Culture - Director of Sales and Business Development Emerson Employee Review

      3.0
      Sep 14, 2022
      Director of sales and business development
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Management discipline and processes are very strong. Some great people.

      Cons

      As a result of activist investors targeting the company in 2015 and 2019 Emerson has become overly lean. Role consolidation at the Director/VP level has eliminated career paths and made proper career development overly difficult. Emerson is in the process of selecting the next generation of leaders but they are picking the WRONG people and putting a premium on style over substance. This does not bode well for the future.

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      5.0
      Jun 9, 2026
      Logistics manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great work - life balance

      Cons

      limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

      2.0
      Jun 25, 2026
      Sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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