Eaton reviews

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.

- 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.