Harris Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Harris full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Overall good company. Salaries are at or above industry standards. Decent benefits. Fair amount of paid time off. Good name recognition.

Cons – Clueless middle and upper management. Work life balance is the worst...not real sure how they ever will keep the best when they treat them like traveling slaves.

Advice to Senior Management – If you don't know what you are doing don't try to change things if they were already running smoothly. Just because you are a manager from another division of the company don't feel compelled to make changes in your newly appointed position to a division that you don't have experience in. Just lean back settle in and learn the new business before you make changes that could undo some good things that are already in place. Don't tell your employees about the latest MBA popular book that you are reading and tell them about how you are going to 'invoke' some of the untried theories into the work place. And if you were on your college swim team don't brag about it....it's a wimp sport.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Harris full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – 9/80 work week allows for every other Friday off.

Cons – No career advancement. Unprepared work.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop construction on new facilities and save jobs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Harris full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good benefits, profit sharing etc..

Cons – when you are a peon - you are lost and just a number

Advice to Senior Management – Realize experience is sometimes more valuable than a degree

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Harris full-time for more than a year

Pros – Modern, capable software. Great leadership.

Cons – Poor compensation relative to contribution. High workload.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Harris full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The type of work is very interesting for the most part. The 9/80 work week (work 9, 9 hour days every two weeks, every other Friday off) is a very nice perk. Benefits are also very good.

Cons – Everything is very process oriented (as with any DoD contractor).

Your performance has little impact on raise percentages and career advancement.
Employees are shifted into the higher levels based on seniority rather than performance.
Even if your performance is well above average for your level, your review will be arbitrarily downgraded to push you into the average category to allow more senior, lower performers to progress their career.

Advice to Senior Management – Your career progression techniques are designed to keep everyone happy, but it offends your best performers, which you should be working harder to retain.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Harris full-time

Pros – Good working env, nice coworkers and working place. The working hour is very flexible and is good for work-life balance.

Cons – Org structure is very strange and personal development might not be good. Employees are not motivated and no growing space.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Harris full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Hands on experience opportunities. Very progressive manufacturing lines, and a pretty well educated technical and engineering staff.

Cons – No growing of internal talent. Need to leave company in order to advance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Harris full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits, 9/80 work schedule
The people are all very friendly and working with multiple groups is usually pretty easy.

Cons – Slow work being done by old people. No one wants to change or improve systems because "if it aint broke dont fix it." The newest slogan is "do more with less" so the work-life balance is skewing.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote based on merit, not years with the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Harris full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Relatively flexible work schedule. Good health benefits.

Cons – No formal training, old hardware, management does not communicate well with employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Give employees more formal & better training, update OLD computer hardware, communicate business decisions with employees better.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Harris full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – My division (PSPC) was highly regarded in the industry as an innovator and supplier of both wireless communication products and networks. A great deal of pride and hard work went into our product

Cons – My division was acquired by Harris in 2009, and the new management had a difficult time understanding the particular niche this particular purchase provided them access.

Advice to Senior Management – Try not to consider the one business model that is currently favored as being the only one that could possibly work across all divisions of the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend