Honeywell Reviews

Cons

No actual cons, but a "heads-up" instead: - as a global company, be prepared to eventually adapt your working hours to attend to meetings / work together with other teams that are on a very different timezone (8+ hours of difference) - the flexibility from the company also expects you to be flexible.

Cons

No negative feedback from me.

Cons

Too many cons. Management is poor. They constantly change planners and leads. Can't hold onto engineers. They play favorites. Some cells get better treatment. They ignore problems and concerns regarding builds. They expect you to do everything and work Saturdays. A customer wanted x amount of valves in 2 days, a ridiculous quantity, day shift lead told us she expected us to drop dead to push them out. Workers are treated poorly. There is a huge rift between day and night shift. It's honestly not worth the pay to work here especially if you have family and kids. Let's also not forget how their computers are not up to par. So when you gace issues. They drag their feet to fix it, forgetting you need the computer to do your job, and if you have to call IT, take some Tylenol or excedrin before because you'll spend 2 hrs talking to someone overseas who barely speaks English, and doesn't understand what your asking no matter how you dumb it down.

Cons

The amount of turnover should speak for itself. Most teams have lost half their members in the last two or three years. One reason for that is that if you work here you will have to compete with up to 20-25 other direct reports for your boss's help. Don't believe the terms in your offer letter- those 13 days of company holidays? Last year managers told us "don't plan for December vacations" despite above-average Q4 performance. Salary might seem ok but raises never track inflation. Work life balance is notoriously bad- a whiteboard here has the quote "death is not a reason not to close your story", and after my spouse had a panic attack my leader said "well we all have work-life issues like that we have to deal with". There's a reason Anthem is hiring a lot right now. Customer schedules are at risk and leadership would rather throw more water in the bucket than plug the holes in it. If Anthem were a great team more Honeywell employees would want to switch teams.

Cons

All depends on if you are in it for only you or looking at a larger picture. There are many, in every company, who have negative statements about their workplaces. If you know that you are going to work for a large global company and think it will be like working at a small family business, wake up. Honeywell is there to make money for their shareholders and that can create a fast paced, hard core, very direct environment that not everyone can live/ work in. Be honest with yourself and know what you are getting into, no matter where you decide to work. After all, it is your decision to accept any/ all job offers and the associated pay/ benefits. Would say that over the past 5-10 years HR has put us in a very "woke" system that is broken. This is one piece that does need attention or you will run the folks with the IP away.

Cons

I think the onboarding process is very robust and overwhelming at times.

Cons

Benefits and pay could be slightly better, on boarding was completely online and could have been made a little bit more personal and interactive.

Cons

Leadership, both at the executive and upper management levels, is nothing but a revolving door. Every time leadership changes, the new teams change strategies and it is so tiresome to constantly have to adapt to "new business strategies" of the incoming leaders who want to make their mark.

Cons

- Honeywell says Innovation is a top priority but somewhere the message gets lost in middle management, and therefore many new products still use code written in the 90s and archaic software tools - Export control processes have gotten Draconian and un-collaborative. Hope you enjoy typing a business justification for virtually every external email. Many teams have to been told to stop using Excel's real time co-authoring for anything. - Managers care more about analyzing KPI's and CDR's than understanding the work of entry-level employees that make those KPI's and CDR's happen. - Program budgets on civil aviation can be disorganized and chaotic. You may work mandatory overtime and then be told to stop working on all customer projects in the same quarter. - Work-life balance depends heavily on the teams. Sometimes managers barely know what each employee is working on each week, but I've also seen teams where weekend meetings were normal - Direct managers may be remote, and can sometimes be too hands-off. Good luck getting your manager to appropriately address a dysfunctional team when you've never physically met them and only talk once a month.

Cons

Training and working from home can be tough for some people that require more of an outline or structure. Lots of acronyms and abbreviated terms so at first things may seem overwhelming, but help is around and it's pretty easy to contact someone that can help answer your questions. There's room for improvement when it comes to diversity here, but that could be you! Lots of opportunities for people from underrepresented/minority groups.