Agilent Technologies Reviews

Pros

Free coffee
Lots of parking spaces in the parking lot. Layoffs do have a benefit

Cons

Many project cancellations.
No innovation, just add some lipstick to the pig products and call it something new
Management created an atmosphere where people no longer cooperated with each other.

Advice to Senior Management

Please retire and get some people with an innovative streak in place.

Pros

Great environment and flexible work hour. Great colleagues

Cons

Less opportunity to advance and career growth. not open management

Advice to Senior Management

Less politics and Be open for talent mapping to move around internally in the company.

Pros

Good place to work, flexible timings, employee friendly environment. Scientific culture. Overly complicated processes.

Cons

Possibilities to advance is less

Advice to Senior Management

Pay needs to be improved

Pros

Merit based compensation. Competitive benefits.

Cons

No support for professional development. Leaders build empires and compete with one another making very difficult for employees to advance or move between functions.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop building silos. Leadership is pitted against one another resulting in competition at an unhealthy level. Managers build empires and everyone loses - employees, customers and shareholders.

Pros

Opportunities to advance and support

Cons

Management doesn't know how to navigate the current economy and provide job security.

Pros

- work life balance
- good benefits
- opportunities to learn and grow

Cons

- Some divisions had almost continuous reorganizations (not in all businesses)
- Company level top Management is competent and inspiring but many division level Managers are incompetent

Advice to Senior Management

Face the problems and don't reorganize the business every year to save face

Pros

Stable, not so many challenge, people are nice and helpful . Respect each other, average salary, trust employee , very fine work classification ,

Cons

Little chance for career development , incompetence salary&benefits. Work time is not flexible, now focus too much on cost down, less attention on people especially admin officers

Advice to Senior Management

Improve salary. More team building. Can travel much far away. Provide oversea travel , speak for us, provide training opportunity from outsider

Pros

Good work life balance,employe satisfaction

Cons

travel time is too much

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on cafeteria services

Pros

There is still some of the HP culture. There is respect for the employees. There is a lot of autonomy in many jobs to prove your worth. Loyalty to peers and colleagues is strong. To management - less.

Cons

Employees would have done anything for HP but that is not the case for Agilent. Benefits have been drastically cut back (they will say they are in line with industry benchmarking). Very expense management driven, but very uneven. "Field" is at the top of the heap; they spent and travel without control until the 4th quarter panic. "Factory" is next. They manage expenses reasonably. Global infrastructure/finance and esp. IT is the worst. Very much out sourcing and off shoring. You have to beg and justify and justify more to spend money. In GIO, esp. IT, you feel more like a contractor than an employee.

Agilent requires a lot of personal discipline because it will suck the life out of you if you let it. Work -Life balance is a challenge.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't forget the HP roots and the philosophy from Bill and Dave. Be aware that the employee reaction to management is a reflection of how management treats the employees.

Pros

Not too big of an organization, small core-teams, people very friendly

Cons

Salaries are mediocre for an average employee