Honeywell reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

(23,551 total reviews)
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Vimal Kapur

88% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Honeywell has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 23,551 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Honeywell employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Aug 11, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Honeywell is a huge corporation with over 120,000 employees worldwide, so things tend to vary by division and location. They are a process oriented organization, and provide a significant amount of training, pretty good benefits, and exposure to world class technology in many cases. I believe that executive management is competent, and leading the company in the right direction.

Cons

Because of its size, you sometimes feel like a cog in a giant wheel, where the quarterly earnings are all important. They will cut quickly to make projected numbers, without much regard for the long term. Much of HON is a manufacturing driven organization, and has a hard time truly understanding some of their service based businesses. There can also be competition in the marketplace between various HON divisions. Although they claim to take an objective approach, if you are in a company acquired by HON, leave quickly, as they will gut it and put their own people in place (even as they say they won't).

2.0
Aug 8, 2009

Not for the faint of heart

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good opportunities for training Quality, intelligent co-workers Good benefits

Cons

Churn and burn place Most newbies are considered "outsiders" so you really have to work the relationships to get things done (highly political) If action items are not included on people's bonus action plan, don't expect to get a lot of help to get things done

1.0
Aug 4, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Very few. The name used to look good on a resume but is being rapdily eroded by poor management. Allied Signal bought Honeywell in order to buy the reputation and has steadily dragged Honewyell down to the level of Allied Signal. Whatever you used to read that was bad about Allied Signal, is now what applies to Honeywell. Still acknowledged as an industry leader in some areas, but lack of new products is bringing that reputation down.

Cons

Used to be technology and inovation leader., but is now a very poor also ran. Investment decisions have diverted money away from real product development. Honeywell now exists by buying other companies and stripping them. Honeywell's best engineers now work for a company started by former Honeywell employees. That company has taken Honewyell's 90% market share, has taken most of Honeywell's engineers and is now THE leading supplier in the market segment. Absolutely zero opportuities for advancement. I have been told on 3 separate occassions that I would not be considered for a job in the US because tHonewyell was not prepared to bring someone from offshore Performance reviews and recognition are a very poor joke. I have been personally told that senior management downgraded the review given by my manager, in order to meet a quota and avoid giving me a pay increase Salaries have been frozen for 3 years We took a mandated pay cut this year but managers still expected us to work the same overtime and weekend hours over and above a 40 hour week. They have forgotten how to look after the cusomers. 4 years ago I had a travel budget of $125,000 to visit the customers and resolve their problems. My budget this year, to do the same job, is $12,000. Managers are fascinated with surveys, and use them to get the ratings they want, rather than recognizing the genuine customer concerns expressed in surveys. I have personally had managers tell me that they ignored certain well respected industry surveys becasue they were negative. Downsizing has been the constant theme since the Allied Signal acquisition. Gives lip service to training but in reality does not provide it. I have had to go troubleshoot completely new systems with zero product training prior to seeing the system on the aircraft. Management philosophy is to try to imitate GE. They have not succeeded. Over the last ten years I have watched a $300M business unit become a $30M business unit, while the stock price has been protected by cost cutting. There is nothing left for the future.

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