Honeywell reviews

Overall, a truly awful place to work. This is a review primarily of the ACST group, previously called SRDC and then CSTC. It will probably be renamed and re-shuffled several more times in the next 5 years. Regardless of the name, it is the group composed primarily of defense contractors in Golden Valley, MN. The defense/gov contractors get priority here. Anyone who wants to work on commercial products for regular consumers gets pushed aside. This group is simply a group of panhandlers for corporate welfare from the government. Management is incompetent. There is almost no direction from the higher ups. The only guiding motto is, paraphrasing: get more government money, and keep your work secret. The group is so heavily compartmentalized that almost no one works together. There is little sharing of knowledge and skills. I heard that some new employees sit around doing nothing with no direction. I don't feel that management encouraged or cared about my work. Management (across Honeywell) is slow at making any decisions and cannot move on opportunities. Bureaucracy is a problem. In my opinion, management, especially in ACST, is unethical and unprofessional. Gossip is a problem in ACST. The benefits at Honeywell are the worst of any company I’ve seen. The company’s new vacation policy of “whatever number of days the employee feels like taking” was an obvious theft of everyone’s vacation time. The health insurance is terrible with the highest deductibles and premiums of any company I’ve seen. The required health screenings are awkward. Every year, management announces some new reduction in benefits. This year, they stopped subsidizing dental insurance. Despite Honeywell being founded and based in America, the broader company seems to be giving American jobs to other countries as vigorously as possible. Globalization is one of their primary goals. The outsourcing of American work is just driven by greed. In my opinion, Honeywell was at its peak circa 1960. The company has very little in-house innovation today. The products they’re in, such as thermostats, jet engines, barcode readers, and gas burners, are old technology. Honeywell just buys newer companies. When I think of high tech companies, Honeywell does not come to mind. In the broader Honeywell, I’ve seen many layoffs, furloughs, and pay freezes.

Benefits, Benefit, Benefits - the company used to have great benefits. My family is now on my wife's benefits because the Honeywell benefits are too costly. As an employee only I still pay over $6000 a year for employee only benefits. I also have a $1500 deductible before my insurance even pays a thing. Company is not paying for Dental this year :( Work from Home is going away. Yes we used to be a progressive company that trusted employees to get the job done - but now we are regressing back to the 1980's - where if they don't see you in a site - you must not be working. In my role - I work with employees and contract workers around the world and sometimes people in the sites. Where we work should not really not matter. I have assembled great teams - where they worked never mattered to me - as long as they got the job done.