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Rockwell Automation reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(3,586 total reviews)
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Blake Moret

70% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Rockwell Automation has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,586 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rockwell Automation 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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4K reviews
1.0
Dec 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They give you a check for working and are good at setting up your desk the way you want it.

Cons

You know something is wrong before you even get to the first day on the job because they are a technology company using 20 year old technology to implement their GUI - MFC. Next the industry reputation is that Rockwell is not the home to top talent - well duh.... top talent does not want to develop in MFC. This might be a viscous cycle that all comes down to how they treat people. It's no secret that many people worked there for decades and Rockwell tried to swindle folks near retirement age out of employment benefits. It could come in many forms like giving the employee way too much work to do and an impossible deadline or the opposite - starving the employee giving them nothing to do at all hoping that they would quit in these circumstances. Typical corporate America here making short term decisions and never thinking about the long term effects. Sure they will question your loyalty when you interview there but if they can find a way to successfully be anti-American and replace you with foreigners they will do it in a second. Zero loyalty for the people who make them great.

1.0
Jun 27, 2016

Unethical company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Only to the Asia Pacific Business Center - There's good work-life balance, Family Friendly Friday (knock off at 4.30pm), Compressed Work Week (half-day Friday) during school holidays. Colleagues are supportive and friendly.

Cons

Leadership team is the worst. A lot of micro-managers. Questions and discussions raised with the objective of humiliating or shooting down the other party and not to move the initiatives forward. Products found to be non-compliant but are still released. A lot of bullying methods being used by leadership to their staff. 2 months before Global Voices survey, leadership team started to show concern to staff. Immediately after the survey, they reverted back to their usual self. This is the most unethical company I have seen.

1.0
May 25, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Honestly, since Rockwell came and wiped out Plex's culture, there is no true "pros."

Cons

Rockwell decided to purchase a bunch of companies but it was more so other companies couldn't acquire them. Due to the sheer amount of companies they bought in such a short amount of time, they had no true plan on how to grow them. Due to this, they are burning all of them to the ground and pretending everything is fine. They got rid of the culture of each one of them, turned them into an "old school sales" mentality, and sliced everyone's budgets and expected them to deal with it. Now they are going through laying off ~900 employees, some of which have been with the company for 15+ years.

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