Johnson Controls reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,512 total reviews)
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79% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Johnson Controls has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,512 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Johnson Controls employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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10K reviews
3.0
Dec 17, 2017

Changing company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers, involvement in the community is supported.

Cons

New leadership is changing the culture of the company - it is not the same company as it was even five years ago.

1.0
Nov 6, 2017

Corporate Quagmire - Daily Frustration

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great field employees and coworkers.

Cons

Too many to list but here are a few: - George Oliver's Tyco-ization of JCI as a whole. This is the blueprint of how to ruin a company from the top down. - Centralization - horrible, confusing internal processes put in place to make it easy on incompetent Centralized teams all under the guise of being compliant to to some unseen corporate ruleset. You waste time and money trying to get simple tasks accomplished and at the end of the day leave frustrated and degraded. - Silo Management structure has created a bloated management team full of managers managing managers managing managers while you can't hire people to service customers and don't know who to go to to get things fixed because none of them have any real authority to do anything. - "I don't care, it's not my job" culture of demoralized employees. - Short sighted focus that continues to attempt to show a profit at the employees expense. One example, the 401k matching distribution is now once a year, at the end of the year, in a lump sum payment instead of every pay period. So the company gets to keep your matching dollars and they make the interest on it. If you leave the company before then, they keep the matching funds you have gained all year! - Confusing compensation and bonus plans. - Not paying bonuses that you have earned or greatly reducing them if you do pay anything - Delayed Merit increases on salary. Stop trying to show a profit at the expense of your employees. Its degrading and continues to cause bad feelings toward the company.

2.0
Nov 3, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexibility, pay, and company recognition

Cons

There have been layoffs and reorganizations every 6 months for what seems like years. While there are initiatives to be "an innovator" and come up with the next great idea, it's been challenging to stay focused when people in the cubicles next to me are being let for and their jobs are transferred to Ireland or Mexico. Management is very top-heavy. Because of this, they often lack the understanding or appreciate the effort of their own employees. Communications between project and product groups are also lacking.

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