Eaton reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(6,575 total reviews)
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Paulo Ruiz

79% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Eaton has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 6,575 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Eaton employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Oct 5, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The only pros relating to Eaton are the good people who work there, with the exception being Eaton's unethical Engineering Management, do-nothing HR people and Eaton's fake Global Ethics.

Cons

Many of Eaton's Engineering Management leaders are undeniably unethical. They will throw employees under the bus in a heartbeat in order to please their upper management masters. Eaton's Engineering Management really sank to new lows around 2015 when they began to falsely assess employees on their annual reviews in an apparent effort to drive them out so they would no longer have to contribute to their pension plans. Eaton discontinued the pension plan in 2013 for all newly hired employees but still had to continue contributing to the pensions of long-time employees, many with 25+ years of service to the company. Of course a small group of not-so-ethical people in Eaton's upper management decided to target these long-time employees by falsely devaluing their work performance and lower their overall rating in order to sink it to a level (P2) that ensures that the employee will receive no raise at all for that year. Eventually, most of these employees would become demoralized and leave the company after one or two years of receiving no raise. And here's a company that claims to be #43 on the list of "the world's MOST ethical companies". LOL!! And when you take your complaint to Eaton's so-called "Global Ethics", the complaint basically goes into a black hole, never to be seen again. If you are somehow successful in getting Eaton's Global Ethics to appear interested in your grievance, they will only drag it out for a few months to give the appearance that they are taking action. In the end, it's the same old story that there wasn't sufficient evidence to back up your claim. How convenient and how pathetic!

2.0
Oct 24, 2019

Politics Politics Politics!

Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are competitive with the market. Work life balance is good with work from home flexibility. Office transport and cafeteria are some other perks.

Cons

The middle management plays bad politics with employees. Management gets into ego clashes with each other and scapegoats individual contributors for the politics game very often. Not a good place to grow in such an environment for anyone.

2.0
Jul 2, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are mostly in-line with the industry

Cons

Constant turnover among salaried employees, senior management team lacks core competencies, systemic issues across all functions, heavily siloed functional teams

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