Good at first then overused and burned out - Director Emerson Employee Review

3.0
12 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of smart and good people to work with at the business unit level. Support leadership development and opportunity for most people & positions. Financial juggernaut and job security.

Cons

Company as a whole didn't manage performance, but preferred to move poor performers into other roles. In my experience at Emerson if you are a top-performer you are over used and they try to squeeze as much out of you as they can which led to burn-out. That approach combined with lack of overall performance management allowed poor performers to remain employed while top-performers left the company.

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5.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

2.0
25 Jun 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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