Good, not great, but could be - Strategic Planner Emerson Employee Review

3.0
Oct 8, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Emerson has a mature set of processes to run the business which help keep it consistently profitable and stable - Large company with lots of opportunity if you are capable of moving frequently - Great people who care about each other and the business - Good development opportunities via training programs - Pretty decent IT group. Solid in terms of what equipment is provided to you standard

Cons

- Difficult, if not impossible to have a leadership career here with dual income households without mobility - Management can seem to prioritize making the quarter's numbers, giving up larger long-term benefits, because the pressure coming from the top makes them feel they should - Pay raises started strong, but trailed off rapidly when the pandemic hit and never caught up - Sometimes too conservative, giving smaller competition an edge which they run with to steal market share - New product development often comes from acquisitions or is slow compared to competitors - Management commonly has little to no expertise in lean or process improvement so the business can be slow and inefficient. It seems every improvement is attempted via tightening the screw financially without an understanding of how to achieve the actual improvement

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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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