Eaton Reviews

Cons

Can't think of any cons working at this company

Cons

- There is no expertise in e-mobility. Company has no expert engineering focus teams. Many people left the company due to lack of direction and even recent VP hires to save the E-mobility left. - Upper management is really incompetent. When I listen town-halls, it becomes really clear to me that these people have no idea in making money from top-notch engineering products. Projects start, a few months later change direction, a few months later get canceled, a few months later a new team is set up to start a new project. - Company mainly rely on India and a bit on China teams. The US team is almost non-existent right now. There is almost no labs, no teams, nothing in the center of E-Mobility at Southfield, MI. - Recently Eaton left core e-mobility products and laid off some engineering teams. The remaining money-earning products do not warrant a big group structure, so it was put under vehicle group again. This is clearly a failure on upper management, however they got promotion and but laid off engineering teams.

Cons

Awful, “growing within” is completely false. The management team picks and focuses on minuscule issues when they’re whole company is in shambles and falling apart, they recognize people for the length they’ve been there and not the work they do, new hires are definitely picking up slack and then quitting. because they are given so much to pick up based on the fact that current employees don’t want to train and expect the new people to do all the heavy lifting. It is very biased, as soon as you speak up you are a target. HR & all the management plays hookie all day and choose a new person to pick on. They try to cover their backs with papers legally when in reality this company is a joke, they pick their managers based on who’s easy to boss around and the old timers run THEIR team. if you’re a millennial or genz you will in fact hate it here. It will feel like a waste of time and a daily drag.

Cons

None that I am aware of.

Cons

thrown into the fire at time.

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Millennial leadership who got raised on participation awards who apparently never got challenged with the word NO. If you have a position that gets asked decision questions, if your answer is what they want to hear they're OK. If you give them a fact-based God's honest answer they don't want to hear, "You need to consider how you're perceived by leadership because this will affect your year end review." Better yet, they manage by results knowing nothing of the floor because all they know is staring at spreadsheets. This place is the most unconnected, unorganized organization I have seen. It lacks leadership from the top as they have no connection to the floor. Executive leadership is worse, doesn't matter because the plant manager doesn't advocate for the customer or for the people. I give this place 3 years before it gets shut down and moved to Mexico and Poland.

Cons

Stress is high in the sales functions and the company is more driven by wallstreet than main street.

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The eMobility organization is the exception. Costs and headcount are being cut as much as possible with no reduction in the amount of work. This is propped up by "global" workforce working 12 hours +, and for this reason most of the design work is being shifted to India. The work is centered in sustaining engineering; there is required travel to the plants as current product support is not staffed adequately. All groups are heavily siloed and communication is a constant challenge. Late night and early calls are common. I would suggest avoiding this particular business unit unless you are OK with the above.

Cons

Work life balance is difficult.

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conservative decisions and pay. Slow to respond to trends.