It's a job, not a career - Anonymous employee Honeywell Employee Review

2.0
Oct 20, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fortune 500 company. Honeywell is nice envirionment to challenge yourself and learn about the dynamics and soft skills essential to success at a large, multinational, publicly trade company.

Cons

The most prominent downside of working at Honeywell Aerospace is a culture that promoted short term benefits and the expense process, people, and reputation. Too often the fluid periodic and annual goals are accomplished without a fundamental review, understanding, risk mitigation, or accountability of the various actions and strategies engaged to meet these goals. Too often solutions brokered on department and personal reputations, future business opportunities, or various other compromises are reneged upon, unilaterally re-interpreted, or blatantly disregarded to satisfy the short term metrics without accountability for any associated collateral damage. The results are a culture who responds to business policy as recommendations versus organization reliability, integrity, or predictability; a culture who has disappointed their internal peer groups to a level where mutual cooperation/cross functional problem solving without direct senior management engagement is rare; a culture where your company’s brand with external customers, partners, and various industry insiders disqualifies you from various discussions based on a series of documented events where your company has and continues to underperform on their commitment. Relating this observation with comments from the “Pros” section, as Fortune 500 company, Honeywell’s overall revenue value proposition will afford you the opportunity to redefine the predominant culture. The question is do I want to make a career of changing culture everyday when the conditions that fosters this culture remains unchanged?

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Great work environment Inclusive culture Awesome diversity and inclusion Flexible work schedule Competitive Benefits package Great Employee Engagement

Cons

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Pros

I really didn’t find any pros. This was by far the worst experience of my career.

Cons

Company is solely focused on hitting quarterly results by any means possible which limits any long term thinking or decision making. The culture is cut throat, the open floor plan limits the ability to connect with co-workers, allows for zero personal space and feels like working in a call center. Leadership has adopted the GE model from the 80’s and has no idea how to treat people. For example,I was called ‘f$%^ing’ stupid by a C-Suite leader and was present in many meetings involving Sr. Leaders cussing out junior employees. To say it was demoralizing would be an understatement. The company claims to be on the cutting edge of technology, but it’s all show, smoke and mirrors. This is a thermostat, scanner and floor fan company that cannot figure out how to innovate beyond adding Bluetooth or moving the power button. Software products are developed by people with absolutely no knowledge of operations and the turnover rate is beyond acceptable. Most of the positive reviews on this site are written by people who are new to Honeywell and in the honeymoon period. This is intentional and is an action in the onboarding process to make the company look better than it is. Reviews by tenured employees are generally poor and consistent with this feedback.

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