Eaton Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Eaton full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Reputable company
Diversified portfolio
Ahead of the curve

Cons – Not all facilities are tuned to corporate strategy.
Aquired sites not brought to speed until they fail
My site was never onboard with Eaton Culture, or One Eaton

Advice to Senior Management – I worked at a facility which was purched from another company. Old management was retained because the site was very profitable, however, the site did not understand Eaton philosophy, and Eaton did not understand the site's prodcut lines. Over a period of 6 years, the site was beyone repair. Good people left, others were made to leave, HR did more damage by focusing on wrong aspects, the site went into a tail spin. Advice to management: Drop the sites which are not aligned with your portfolio and philosophy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Eaton full-time

Pros – Great pay and benefits
Stable company
Looks great on your resume

Cons – Work life balance only exists for the week after another employee resigns
Employee satisfaction scores are low
Management aware of employee DIS-satisfaction for 3 years-no improvements made
Hierarchy management structure
Employee resignations are written off as employee's inability to manage workload vs. management's inability to support employee's needs

Advice to Senior Management – Happy, healthy employees improves bottom line

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Eaton as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Pay is slightly higher than most in industry
Nice work life balance
"Bhaashan" about ethics and encouragement to innovation

Cons – None of their ethics related rules apply when the perceived culprit is an american and the victim happens to be indian

innovation according to eaton India is "field application engineering" where you put together bunch of existing eaton products. this combo forms a new "innovative product". no encouragement is given for fresh thinking. extremely stable company (read 'static')

all work has to be generated and driven from US. they dont need employees in India to be thinkers, they should only be good followers (i dont want to use the word "slaves")

Advice to Senior Management – grow up, americans are not Gods

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Eaton full-time for less than a year

Pros – Organized system. Good Benefits. Ample opportunities to move around the different divisions of the company, be it within the same facility or others.

Cons – As mentioned, politics and power struggle at high levels, GM has no relevance and does not command a presence due to constant change of GMs and also politics of their higher management.

Advice to Senior Management – Good Luck continuing looking in all the wrong places and ignoring existing problems. For employees that have been with the company for over 10 years and their position can be merely shifted like it doesn't matter proves and shows how you treat loyalty and effects how your employees should treat you in future!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Eaton full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The Eaton India Engineering Center is financially strong. Has a lot of employees.
Geographical location is at a good special economic zone.

Cons – Incompetent and professionally impotent management. Will support growth of only incapable people – since capable and courageous people cannot be controlled by a incompetent and professionally impotent management. Are keen on capable, talented, knowledgeable and initiative taking employees to leave the company. Management wants to make the Eaton India Engineering Center a swamp than a growing and flowering filed. So – only people who can do this are encouraged. Do I need to say more?

Advice to Senior Management – Wake Up. Get better or get beaten and be thrown out. You cannot survive this way for long. You cannot keep on promoting a swamp – because a swamp only breeds disease carrying insects like mosquitoes.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Eaton

Pros – Compensation was fair-bonus program was appropriate
Yearly performance and merit reviews
Training and development focus at al levels
Senior leadership in the US is quite competent and spends time understanding business issues

Cons – Heavy politics in the EMEA region
Personal differences kept individuals from being promoted; competence ignored
Often the method of communication took precedence over substance.
Process oriented; took a long time to get things done

Advice to Senior Management – Truly practice being an Equal Opportunity Employer worldwide
Focus more on results and less on process documentation
Review impact of offshoring on quality and individuals

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Eaton

Pros – Pension is about it and you can call in sick as many days as you like, if you are that type of employee.

Cons – Have employees that take 20-50 day's off per year for being sick, or so they claim.
Work with people that are not experienced or professional.
Upper Management in Raleigh is old boy's network and don't understand sales.
Some employees milk the system and take 3 hour lunches, are full of excuses, and their manager protects them.
There are certain Manager's there who don't like conflict and have no backbone when it comes to addressing under-performing employees.
Preach ethics, but employees sametime each other all kinds of thing's which are not ethical.
They fire good employees who do their job for unfair reasons and keep those that don't even work.

Advice to Senior Management – What Management?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Eaton

Pros – If you already got a job there well hang to it because this is hard to get a better one now and if your conditions are fair enough to stay why change.

Cons – The HR department hire staffing agency from Texas (because no other agencies want them as a customer in Sarasota/Bradenton) for as low as $8.28 per hour to fire them out 4 days during a work rush in front of everybody for no good reason because they state they have a problem with the agency and after contacting the agency they say that the employee does'nt work out there !

Advice to Senior Management – Give a briefing to HR people on new corporative policies for agency workers or else kick these unprofessional HR senior and HR junior clerk who act like kids out for good.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Eaton

Pros – Benefits were good. Clean and safe working environment. Did not have any problem getting computer equipment or software. Free coffee makers throughout the building.

Cons – Management by the bean counters. Much in-fighting by the mid level management. Little to no lab support such as engineering techs and supplies. Much of the development prototypes were outsourced and I had to do spend many evenings in the lab reworking circuit boards. Trying to deal with design centers in India and China was very counter-productive and had included late night teleconferences at odd hours due to the time differences between Suzhou China, Mumbai, India and the U.S. I was given the 2 minute notice on my layoff last year.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop the in-fighting, Redefine what the Chinese and Indian design centers roles are as they don't really get it yet. Hire some lab technicians who can solder and fabricate. Tell the accountants that this quarters' results don't mean the end of the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Eaton

Pros – Supposed to be a diversified player in manufacturing. Strong background in hydraulics engineering backed up with expertise across the globe.

Cons – Eaton is like this mirage that disappears when you go close to it. Atleast that's how the Service Centre out here works.

The manner in which pay cuts were implemented in 2008 left a lot to be desired. Most important, people were sacked on reasons the company deemed "ETHICAL". Employees lived under the constant fear of being fired, leading to drop in morale, motivation and eventually performance levels.

Advice to Senior Management – Guys, get your act straightened up before its too late. Do not take employees for granted. Constantly involve/engage with employees across all levels. Stop being arrogant and high handed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend