Eaton Reviews

I worked at Eaton as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – weren't on your back about breaks/ lunch/ pay/ top notch office

Cons – boring/ reduction of staff/ secretaries do all the work

Advice to Senior Management – keep up the good work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Eaton

Pros – Pension along with a 401k was a nice thing.

Cons – Long work week. Lots of infighting. No trust between people.

Advice to Senior Management – Be involved more.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Eaton

Pros – Great pay, benefits, and work life balance!

Cons – Lots of politics and back stabbing!

Advice to Senior Management – Walk the talk!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Eaton

Pros – Eaton's policies and management are such that micro-management doesn't happen and employees are empowered to make their own decisions. Work-life balance is excellent and ingrained in the company culture. All employees are expected to behave ethically, top to bottom.

Cons – As a large corporation, changes can take a long time to be implemented, even at the team/department level. All feedback is evaluated and elevated, but can get lost in the mix.

Advice to Senior Management – Create incentive packages that 1) are directly related to job performance; and 2) align the goals of all departments and production facilities to meet customer needs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Eaton

Pros – opportunity and good relations with peer

Cons – slow work environment and narrow view

Advice to Senior Management – na

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Eaton

Pros – Work is steady as it's climb to grow the company. A great focus on ethics. There are lots of opportunity for growth - since there are lots of needs. Once you are found to be 'top-talent', you are given many great learning experiences and can do some really amazing things. Culture of the company is very relationship and people centric - so please go to the mixers and off-site meetings - that is where the work and network really occur.

Cons – Most everyone wears several hats, and are extremely busy. Most people once they hit management barely have time to check email. Eaton is so focused on supposedly growing generic talent that each person has a rotation in each product line, marketing, engineering, and operations, which causes stagnation of innovation (because you have no experts) and alot of duplication (since again there are few people that really know) and which causes the following issues: The technology in their bread and butter products is yesteryear, though stable - and since Eaton is conservative, very rarely shake things up - do not expect them to really lead anything. Eaton also has as a very naive opinion of the power and business of software - something that is not likely to change in the next decade.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the push for excellence - but please surround yourself by more passionate people for their expected role!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Eaton

Pros – At the sales office, the dress code is casual depending on when you go meet clients. You get out of the office enough such that you are not just sitting at your desk all the time. Friendly people, and the management is very easy to talk to.

Cons – Some of the work that is required can be mundane as you are reading over the requirements and creating quotes.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Eaton

Pros – Good entry point into electrical industry
Interesting challenges
Good peer atmosphere

Cons – Lack of leadership at senior levels
Sub-par support functions
Lack of interest in developing people

Advice to Senior Management – Eaton is a company with outdated practices and lack of investment in both development of people and support functions for engineering and marketing.
It is a good place to learn the business and gain industry and technical knowledge...but do not expect any sort of career progression if you do not get promoted within the first 2-3 years, it is not a meritocracy in any way, shape, or form.
 It is part of the culture and acceptable as long as you determine what you want early on and have options.
Management should be aware, qualified engineers and marketers in some of the fields Eaton competes are scarce, especially if it takes years to learn the business and technical practices, but treat employees as expendable.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Eaton

Pros – Eaton has great intentions across a wide range of employee areas. Eaton makes efficienct use of their website and Fidelity to administer benefits.

Cons – The formal Eaton business processes tend to make us less nimble in a number of competitive areas.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Eaton

Pros – the following are some of the reasons:
- lot of opportunities of learning
- good at business ethics
- excellent leadership

Cons – the following are some of the downsides:
- inconsistency of processes followed across different divisions
- less best practices shring across businesses

Advice to Senior Management – - keep up the focus on employee recognition
- interact more with employees
- leverage best practices across differerent divisions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend