Used to be good, currently doing some disguised cost cutting - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

2.0
Feb 16, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- role with foreign functional manager, which is probably the only reason I've stayed with them for the last 5 years

Cons

- low salaries and benefits - extremely poor management in the Cluj site - very bad location for the offices - you're basically stuck in a fenced in field - cost cutting disguied as new RTO policy, without being able to provide the basic ammenities (enough desks, enough food, enough parking spaces, etc.)

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Cons

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2.0
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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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