Pros
Great colleagues (but they don't stay long)
Cons
Emerson Services Company (ESCO) purchased Doble earlier in the decade. It’s been downhill ever since then. Like all corporate takeovers, ESCO discarded the good people and their knowledge, and cut costs. They reduced wages, regimented HR, and brought complex and ineffective business software (NAV). Managers are poor, do not support their workers, and have very little experience (but, they work cheap). ESCO/Doble pinches every penny (not covering reasonable travel expenditures—heaven help you if you lose a receipt!). Last year, the Doble CEO declared a week-long layoff for everyone in the company “to make the ESCO numbers.” This is a sign of a failing company. The Sales/Marketing and R&D departments are haphazard and scattered. Present software releases are late and buggy; new products are poorly planned and are potential disasters. New products have had to be recalled from the market for complete makeovers (M7100). The other ESCO purchases (Morgan Schaffer, ENOSERV, Manta, and Vanguard) have experienced the same squeeze and mismanagement. Find a better company to work for.