Eaton reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(6,574 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 6,574 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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7K reviews
3.0
Nov 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of opportunities to move around to various locations, and climb the management ladder if you're into that sort of thing. It's also a very stable company, so job security is great.

Cons

Being a huge company means they move at a snail's pace, and there's tons of bureaucracy an inefficiency when dealing with anyone outside of your local division. Also, advancing your career basically *requires* you to move around often and "politic" your way upward. More specifically to engineering, Eaton tries to run its engineering and development offices like it runs the manufacturing side of the business. So the technology tends to lag the real world by a pretty good margin, there are a lot of business processes that simply don't fit the development of non-assembly-line work, and creativity & innovation aren't valued nearly as much as meeting deadlines and keeping existing customers with minor one-off updates to decades-old technology.

2.0
Mar 10, 2017

Lost Focus

Recommend
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Pros

- Company Car - Company Cell Phone - Handful of dedicated employees that make the company function - Certain managers that are amazing teachers

Cons

- Focus has shifted from Employees to shareholders over past 10 years - You can tell who is 'marked for greatness' just by looking at them, sadly. - Cliques exist in management and HR. If you are in, you can make sexist jokes, drive drunk, abuse company money and resources and even have extramarital affairs in full view of C-level management with zero repercussions. - Social skills valued over performance - Eaton was sued for sexual and racial discrimination. As a result, many new promotions are given to 'minorities.' Yet they value a diversity of backgrounds and not a diversity of ideas. I.E. skin color/gender is given more precedence than character, which is ironically a turn towards racism/sexism rather than way from it. - Low pay offset by purported great benefits, which have been dwindling. - Multiple company 'cultures' due to Cooper acquisition, not in sync. - Certain corrupt elements in HR. HR will protect certain people, some will even sleep with employees or solicit sex acts, regardless of marital status. Truly frightening culture at HR which has a chilling effect on raising concerns. The older employees know to keep their mouths and head down at all times. - Constant culture of fear about losing your job, coupled with mandatory unpaid leaves of absence. The constant promotion of the idea that the grass isn't greener on the other side has cultivated a culture of Stockholm Syndrome.

1.0
Feb 7, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Used be a collaborative and strong learning environment with great career outlook, but then all of the good HR employees left the company after several unwise leadership appointments.

Cons

Senior HR leader(s) don't understand how to manage people or provide coaching, but are very good at managing upward image. Focus on bringing in expat HR leaders who don't understand North America teams instead of promoting from within. Flattening of career path due to HR services implementation and reduced resources resulting in no upward mobility. Health benefits are ridiculously bad which the CHRO blames on a democratic government instead of taking accountability. Bad situation - you can certainly do better in this job market.

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