Agilent Technologies Reviews

Pros

Life keep moving with survival, no worries on dead lines.

Cons

no growth at all. my boss don't want to get higher and so above... so everyone remain same for last 4 years

Advice to Senior Management

What to give... anyway they won't listen... they do as they do, it is other corporate company...

Pros

Good people and talent there. Lots of resource both hardware and software readily available. Everybody work hard with long hours spent at work is a plus. I don't have to wait for people to show up tomorrow because they left the office at 4 pm.

Cons

It was a good company to work with. When it still has HP open door policy. But it turned into outsourcing company

Advice to Senior Management

Stop shipping technical work to oversea. You need the top mind and talent here in the US to continue Agilent inovation

Pros

Great people, cool technology, good work live balance. I worked in the central laboratories so my opinion may be biased high as this was a more academic environment.

Cons

Found some of the employees to be very competitive and found opportunties for advancement to be few and far between.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work and continue to invest in obtaining the brightest folks here in the united states and capitalize on your intellectual capital

Pros

A good place for Work life balance.
Colleagues are friendly and helpful.
Lot of information and knowledge can be learned.
Have plenty of chances to get training outside.

Cons

Still have rooms to improve on the senior management, project and resource management.
Lack of documentation and information for some of the tasks inside.

Pros

Some Team do have some great leadership. Where ever the employee reports to a foreigner manager that is where he is lucky and for him it is a place to have fun

Cons

Some Teams do not have great leadership. An employee reporting to a local indian manager would not be very lucky irrespective of all benefits and promotions - there is a great difference in the experience of Manager in Agilent India and as compare to their foreign counterparts.

Advice to Senior Management

Development of the leadership to at least bring all to a uniform level of leadership style and skill so that different teams should not have different opinions about the company.

Pros

- Lots of great experience and terrific people to work with
- business operational departments are excellent
- some fantastic managers who really care about work life balance and endorse a culture of respect
- decently challenging and meaningful work
- some terrific people overall
- fantastic tuition reimbursement

Cons

- trying to cost cut its way to greatness as a business strategy starting with employees based on what I saw the last few years I before I left for another company
- promotional opportunities and salary increases highly lacking
- benefits steadily cut
- many "old timers" from the HP days. However, the company they remember doesn't exist anymore and nostalgia won't get the business to where it needs to be.
- HR is not only terrible at providing employee support but on the forefront of endorsing mediocre benefits, lack of salary increases, no promotions and layoffs from the years that I was there.

Advice to Senior Management

Get back to a compensation plan that is meaningful for salary, not just bonuses and stop trying to be a great company by trimming here and there - especially with layoffs as they are losing the heart of what drives them to greatness.

Pros

work life blance and flexibility

Cons

performance evaluation process is not standard

Advice to Senior Management

Understand what individual is doing day to day and evaluate individual's performance based on that.

Pros

Individual contributers.
Technology.
A (very) little bit of HP philosophy still exists.

Cons

Constant erosion of benefits.
Stingy with pay raises.
HR's directive to be mediocre.
Very little HP philosophy exists.

Pros

great pay, interesting technology, great people.

Cons

Poor management, no strategic vision, no path for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

No more musical manager chairs - get rid of managers that don't add value and too many levels of management.

Pros

Great benefits....great technology.....Nice legacy via HP. Pension plan. Vacation policy. Really nice setup for a balanced lifestyle. A standout in this area

Cons

Terrible communication chain......over-compensated senior management. Need to look into controlling salaries of executive staff......three mil for an exec vp of human resources?

Advice to Senior Management

Return to a focus on innovation and invention. Invest in future green technologies as well as refocus on electronic instrument innovation in Asian markets.