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      Eaton

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      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

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      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      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 Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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      7K reviews
      4.0
      Aug 4, 2008

      Long-term employment will require mobility. Employees not in mfg or sales should know more about their products.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Recognized as a leader in many fields, Eaton hires great people and has a good salary and benefits package. I worked for the company for a long time and would still be there today had they not closed the plant.

      Cons

      Sometimes the company sees itself as the "Cadillac" product when the market is really looking for a "Chevrolet" solution. There is a MAJOR disconnect between support services (IT, Finance, etc.) and the manufacturing and sales functions. This causes problems when the IT group tries to implement software and does not understand the processes of a manufacturing facility or support a sales person when they call in for help with their PC. If you are looking for a place to work for the rest of your life, be prepared to move every 8-10 years.

      4.0
      Jul 16, 2008

      Great Place to Work!

      It analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Eaton is very interested in building great employees. This results in great training and education opportunities, challenging assignements, opportunites to travel, and many chances to have your voice heard by others. I never feel like I can't share my ideas or concerns with management. The company also practices what they preach. In the annual reports and employee meetings they talk about being ethical, honest, and good corporate citizens. I have seen several cases of these standards being enforced and not in a way to satisify the "bare minimum". This makes me feel proud to work for the company and well as confident that if I have any issues they won't be just glossed over.

      Cons

      Like most companies in this economny there are always times of the year where we have to watch all spending. If this happens to be when your travel or training is scheduled it is likely to be cut. Also it seems that we are always tasked with doing more with less... less people, less resources, less time. Also like most places there are always those people that you just don't like to work with (or for). If you get stuck working with this type of person everything can seem much worse. Luckily, there are usually opportunities to move to other postions within the company.

      3.0
      Jul 10, 2008

      It's a stable company...

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The best reasons for working at Eaton has to be the large network of support. There's pretty much a process in place for everything so people have a chance to get training in a variety of areas related to their work. The company is pretty stable and they do celebrate successes. The goals and feedback system is well defined and setting the goals in line with upper management is well understood. Plenty of networking opportunities and communication about the other lines of business are clear as well. The company is driven by metrics which means that a lot of success has to be concrete which eliminates a lot of subjective judgments that managers quite often mess up.

      Cons

      The downside is that the work is not all that interesting. There is more focus on cost cutting, process improvements and backward compatibility rather than advancing the technology through new innovations. There is of course new innovations but quite often products are based on old reference designs with lots of restrictions. This often removes the "fun" out of the engineering as we are marching our work toward a cost goal rather than a innovation goal. Another issue with working there is that because the company is so metric driven they quite often treat workers as assets rather than real people.

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