Q&A With Rockwell Automation Employees

Suits, formal business attire always or write ups happen

Same

There’s been freezes for years, managers and above get 2-3 per year

None 6am to 5pm no exceptions

HR comes, security comes, your manager takes you to room, you get severance and off you go personal items get fedexed to you weeks later

Twice per year but only for favorites of managers in my group

Know politics and how to manipulate people and stay clear of certain managers

Business casual sometimes formal

None they don’t allow and never will

Yes but it’s difficult unless you know the right people some managers will use shady tactics so you can’t move others are encouraging and want you to grow some teams get layoffs, fire people, while others are flourishing and vibrant depends on managers

Mostly local stuff to the specific location

Very little they partnered with PTC but don’t even use it now they’re making an oil drilling company? Products are all the same inside don’t look the same outside they put new plastic on, charge 10x more and expect people to remember AB and buy

Hit or miss they don’t tell you how much PTO you actually hace you can take but manager decides maybe you get maybe not and who knows how much you actually have

Most interview questions are not well thought out I interviewed for three positions, best experience was in test in Mequon. Some used round robin, totally disorganized who does that kind of interview?? Ridiculous

It’s painful, some groups don’t even have onboarding so you’re left to flounder through SAP and other systems - it can take up to a year and if you’re in certain engineering groups like test you’re always hounded about it, then it finishes and much of what you had to do never gets used for a big company they need to really onboard better - didn’t have a laptop on my first day, phone took weeks, didn’t feel welcome and was show RA swag I could buy myself but not even a pen

Growing fastest = anything in oil and gas/food beverage or in Asia Pacific areas, horrible failures? Anything they try in solar, alternative energy or in Europe

Make senior leadership actuall ACT on all the great initiatives to improve our experience rather than just talk about them while constantly telling us we need to work harder otherwise no raises/bonuses

After 100+ years in operation the leadership team is just learning what work-life balance means and that it should apply to those outside of management as well - getting better, slowly

Panel interview, usually with 5-8 engineers/managers round robin questions from technical to personality to leadership potential

They’ll claim performance but it’s more about who you know and nepotism which is why many seasoned workers leave some departments much worse than others “chosen ones” move up, the rest don’t

It just got modernized in 2018 to actually align with companies that supported vacations like this for the past 20 years, only not for some groups like those with more than 20 years or those with less than 5 years, they’re stuck in the 60’s still

Team outings? Ha, if you’re lucky to be in a group that actually spends their team outing budget on actual team outings I’ve heard some can be cool.

In work quantity, very. In work quality or interesting things, almost not at all anymore.

In some groups, like Test Engineering it can usually be chaotic mess because our leadership has no vision or strategic approach - it’s just a big pile of stuff that needed to be done yesterday so go at it! Oh and don’t forget all the valueless reporting on every little thing that has nothing to do with actual engineering work - gotta track them metrics!

Used to be going to work, now it’s leaving for the day and looking for new opportunities