Agilent Technologies Reviews

I have been working at Agilent Technologies

Pros – friendly working environment, a lot of freedom

Cons – Huge organization, sometimes hard to get things done efficiently.

Advice to Senior Management – Company website needs more attention!

I have been working at Agilent Technologies for more than 7 years

Pros – The old HP managers still have the values that made the company great

Cons – The shift of IT to India has changed the culture. US employees are considered overhead, and are pushed out before they can get to retirement.

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

I have been working at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – You will work with the best engineers and scientists in the world.

There are still pockets of the HP Way in Agilent but those employees are aging out.

Cons – Expect to go through Workforce Management cycles (i.e. layoffs) every two years. Your favorite project will probably get cancelled, possible for political reasons.

The American workforce is pretty old. Most new hires are overseas.

Advice to Senior Management – Get to know the individual contributors.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great life/work balance, flexible hours. Beautiful Santa Rosa site. Mostly great people.
Good place to hide for enginners who don't want to work too hard.
Slow paced.

Cons – Regular layoffs to skeeze a bit more profit affecting only individual contributors.
Huge hierarchy of management (8 levels!)
Upper management always keep pressure so that salary increases remain minimal and employees are kept on their toes: either it's a bad year, or it's good but didn't meet the just upwardly revised expectations, or it's good for now but is expected to turn bad next year.
Slow paced.

Advice to Senior Management – I'm not even going there...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good work environment when I worked there, by that I mean the physical environment.

Cons – Many lay-offs and shrinkage in the legal department and elsewhere in the company; inflexible access to executives, almost a sanctuary environment, needed general counsel, hard to find or talk to.

Advice to Senior Management – not sure where you are now; it was a great place but changed so much

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Agilent Technologies

Pros – nice people, nice work env

Cons – business competitor is tight , not easy job

I worked at Agilent Technologies as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Work on your own project directly under a manager
Lots of intern events in the summer
Great pay for an internship
Laid back culture
Diverse and interesting group of experts to learn from

Cons – No real cons, but be prepared for multiple tough technical interviews

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – ability to work from home, fair pay

Cons – Upper management is too far removed from the actual day to day business to make good decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your subject matter experts! Driving change for change sake doesn't mean you are improving anything.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – No predetermined work hours. Can work any shift. Job stability.

Cons – Low salaries far below market average at some locations and tiny raises if any. Lack of consistency in project planning and follow through.

Advice to Senior Management – There are a lot of disgruntled employees that would change jobs if the market improves. 5 years without even a cost of living increase.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Clear management by objectives, invests in its people.

Cons – I thought it was awesome.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company