Honeywell - Too much internal focus, management by metrics, and focus on emerging regions
Pros
Discounts on phones services. Reasonable benefits although they are getting worse. Good coworkers who are committed to doing whats right.
Cons
Centralized decision making - not giving business units the authority and responsibility for their own success. Too much focus on moving jobs to "emerging regions".. This translates to little job security or future if you are a US citizen. The company has growth by aquisition - and forces newly aquired copanies to follow the Honeywell processes and procedures. This may not make sense to do everything the Honeywell "way" but local managers are not allowed to deviate. The company is highly "siloed" with different support groups (e.g. purchasing, technology, manufacturing, sales, etc) having often different and incompatable metrics to meet. Looking out for the customer seems secondary to meeting your metrics. This is particularly true with global sourcing. Constant push to supplier prices, get better payment terms, etc follows the model used by automotive companies (e.g. GM, Chyrsler). Not a good example to follow for long term success..