Environment Needs to be changed - Director, Engineering Emerson Employee Review

2.0
Mar 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Talented pool of engineer's and people, good skills, hard working overall.

Cons

Management needs direction. They don't have the right vision. Seems like making a small decision for your small department needs approval from top management. Without meetings and making a case for something nothing happens. Every division is suffering due to this issue. Lot of talk from management but they don't know how to make it happen. Employees who comes forward and volunteers seems to be taken for granted. Low salaries for high technology positions.

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Cons

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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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