A little good / A little bad - Senior Software Engineer Emerson Employee Review

3.0
Oct 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company has been around for many years and has many resources available to the employee. The pay is standard and the work is easy. Most of the work instructions are documentated.

Cons

As they are seeking CMMI 3, there is only one way to do things, their way! Most of the design is by committee, which can be irksome.

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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

2.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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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