Rockwell Automation reviews

Huge gap between retirement age employees who have given up on keeping up with the times and are hanging on purely for their pensions and young (20's) employees trying to keep the company relevant in the modern economy. Rockwell thinks it's glut of "mature" talent is a strength, it is not, it is holding the entire company back. While Rockwell may have been a leader in the 1980's, today it is so far behind that instead of trying to innovate it spends its time copying features that Seimens released 10 years ago. There is also a horrifying willingness to pander to customers and to literally design their controllers and software around customer demands. There is no chance of innovating, all the work is simply catch up and pandering.

- The management treats employees as if they're being paid to be their punching bags. - For whatever that doesn't go right, the developer is to blame: - Can't meet schedules? It's your fault. - Got bugs? Also your fault. - Requirements not clear enough? Why, who else is to blame? It's you. - Working on a feature that involves knowledge from other centres? Why can't we do it ourselves? We're the most competent! - You don't know what micromanagement means until you've worked here. - For whatever little that does go right, there's little to no recognition. - The managers are busy pleasing their bosses while annoying their developers. - CSR activities are more important than development work. - HR's role is zero to non-existent. The most important work they do is to conduct exit interviews. - The management thinks development should not have any bugs. - Follow all processes that the management needs, but what the developer needs, no one cares. - Almost zero knowledge sharing. - Fear and panic are driving forces.