Rockwell Automation Reviews

Pros

Clean environment, nice and polite co-workers, good benefits

Cons

You and your career depend on your manager period.

Pros

Was rewarded for my effort

Cons

lost the companies half of my 401k when I was laid off

Advice to Senior Management

enjoyed working with you guys

Pros

Opportunity to grow and develop. Work was meaning full. Benefits were in line with most companies but kept increasing every year.

Cons

Layoffs were random and did no have rhyme or reason. Lots of job moved out of country. Some goals were out of your control.

Pros

Global experience (good & bad)
Good pay
401K plan is adequate
Company is stable and will be for a long time

Cons

Terrible work/life balance
Benefits terrible - negotiate for more pay!!
Leadership makes decisions behind closed doors despite very smart and talented employees
Not a fun place to work anymore

Advice to Senior Management

If you hire quality people, trust them and let them make decisions - this is not consistent across the organization, some areas are exceptional (Engineering), others suffer greatly (Information Technology).

Your benefits strategy failed and is now a detriment to hiring and retaining talent. It was a valid idea and effort, probably time to re-position.

You're not treating people in a healthy manner, work/life balance needs to be addressed - talk to HR and recruiters, RA is now known as a sweat shop!

I was being considered for a senior position when I left, I would not return without some major changes per comments above.

Lastly - Keith is a very hard working smart leader who I respect as much as anyone. We all know he's not as dynamic as Davis was, his charisma is within his knowledge and passion for what he does. That charisma is within many employees at Rockwell (c'mon, their engineers!), however, there is an issue within upper and middle leadership - and PWC isn't going to be able to solve this one for you! Come to think of it, they've never solved any of your problems! So launches my consulting career...

Pros

Lots of places to work; variety of areas to pursue your work.

Cons

Management is getting less transparent.

Advice to Senior Management

Value your people.

Pros

Great co-workers and mostly friendly atmosphere among them. Most distributors are professional and easy to work with. When they are out of line, management did make a point to correct any issues.

Cons

Few opportunities for growth. Very intolerant of employees expressing their opinions. They kind of have to keep their heads down, grin, and bear it.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't hide the facts from employees. Everyone there is an adult and there is no reason to have everything be so covert.

Pros

Salary, Benefits, Engineers are helpful, and nice working environment. Mainly you have your own laptop and you come in and execute your work in a timely manner.

Cons

My project manager was horrible. I was a intern and he just told me how and what to do. Most of the times he wrongly informed me. He never informed me of the over all knowledge of what i was doing. If i solved a problem or situation and it was not identical to his answer, he assumed it was incorrect. He mainly tried to sabotage my work. He would give me a project to do and also give me unnecessary tasks to do with the project. Though I still completed the task in a timely manner, he would say it took longer than it should. Then when I asked him about the unnecessary tasks, he didn't have an answer. I was informed that the tasks was unnecessary because other engineers informed me not to do those tasks. They were also unaware why he would tell me to do the tasks.

Advice to Senior Management

I think that they need to have a better Internship program. Only have managers involved that will have a positive atmosphere with the intern.

Pros

great co-workers, always trying to do their best

Cons

Promotions are based on who you know and not performance
Not willing to take risks
not family/work balance friendly company

Advice to Senior Management

don't overload employees; work not distributed fairly

Pros

RA is an Industry leader with advance technology in the automation and controls sector.

Cons

Too much emphasis on sales heavy mentality

Pros

RA provides good professional development with interesting and challenging work opportunities. RA provides good compensation and treats employees fairly.

Cons

There is a fair amount of red tape. While RA boasts the ability to move around within the company, employees are typically too overloaded to learn skills to move withing the company.