Hamilton Sundstrand Reviews

I have been working at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – Good People to work with
Most mangers are fair and accommodating

Cons – Poor Salary in comparison to other companies
Too much bureaucracy
Outsourcing and cost reduction getting out of hand (esp with record profits)
Stretched resources and over worked employees to make deadlines

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to treat employees as people and not number or cogs in a wheel. Employees are not interchangeable at the flick of a wrist. Additionally, promote from within. Too often you see a new VP or senior staff member with a couple years of HS experience and multiple years at other companies.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – Made my own schedule
Good pay

Cons – You have the same responsibilities as full time employers yet you do not get paid the same or get benefits

I have been working at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – flexibile hours, a wellnown company for aerospace

Cons – Too much byrokracy, there are some non skilled managers that does not evaluate properly the job and efforts of employees

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of these managers, fire them

I have been working at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – Good salary
Nice facility to work in

Cons – Some difficult people to work with

Advice to Senior Management – Needs better leaders

I have been working at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – Its absolutely the best job I have ever had in my life. As a tradesman its great. Its almost like I was in the military again.

Cons – Again its like I am in the military again becuase the cons of being in the military are that there is so much back stabbing and harrassment that upper management has no idea whats going on. The right hand has no idea what the left hand is doing in upper management. Management will be HS's downfall.

Advice to Senior Management – QUIT BEING YES MEN AND THINK FOR YOURSELF? The bean counters will be this comapnies downfall along with management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – Reasonable pay, challenging assignments, great coworkers.

Cons – NOT a family friendly employer, high stress environment due to high workload resulting from an extremely lean operation, and minimal empowerment. Expectation by upper management is that you be available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week for conference calls/meetings even while on vacation or on unpaid furlough days.

Many former Pratt & Whitney senior managers micro managing the company have instilled culture of fear, shoot the messenger mentality, point the finger of blame at others, shoot from the hip responses, and are more concerned about making sure they are statused on even the mundane details so they look important when supporting meetings with the executives. Openly sharing of information amongst the upper management level does not seem to exist and a mentality of knowledge is power is very obvious.

Achieveing Competitive Excellence (ACE) - process does not work, is way too time consuming, and uses to many resources.

Advice to Senior Management – Respect employees' family and personal time. We are not saving lives here or solving world hunger. Treat employees respectfully and professionally, hire more engineers to spread the workload. Dump Achieveing Competitive Excellence (ACE). The process does not work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – The best thing about Hamilton Sundstrand is the people who work so hard to do the right thing.

Cons – There is great pressure and politics and people keep on trying to do what is right despite the companies blind attitude towards employees. It is a demoralizing and predatory environment where everyone is on edge. It used to be a great place to work but not now.

Advice to Senior Management – I have no advice to management because I know they will not listen and that is a sad way to run a business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – I LOVED MY JOB. Great people. Good overall Benefits. Great mentors over the 20 years I was there. Good operating system. Great training. Great overall experience.

Cons – Senior Management lost site of business. Senior Management turn-over resulted in short sighted ideas which in turn wasted time and hours reinventing the wheel over and over again. Did not listen to mid-management level worker bees. Business loss/downsize rests with Corporate infiltration. Became a very knee jerk environment. They had the finest workforce around and they simply blew it. Long hours, lower pay but I loved it.

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest. Your senior employees that are left deserve some loyalty in return for their years of service. Overkill on the ACE. Clean your side of the street and good things will follow. Good luck.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – The ability to learn and excel are there.
Lean organization allows to wear many hats and gain plenty of experience in a short amount of time.
Educational benefits are still the best around even with reductions in certain areas.

Cons – San Diego branch is on the way out for all areas except military production and repair. Engineering will see a 30% reduction in work force with full force of Poland resources. Commercial production will be 100% gone. Most commercial repair will be gone.

Mid management is not good enough. They lack the ability to actually "manage" their departments. Engineering Director choice is one train wreck after another. Latest PWA person does not transmit confidence rather makes you want to get your resume in order. Doesn't know how to reach his people. Program office is rife with incompetence from old veterans who gave up long ago to mid level people who never learned how to do things right and shouldn't be managing anything. Contractors not only run areas of importance, but they do so with little or no supervision.

No one believes the VP has the employees' interest in mind and it is eating away at everyone like a cancer. The mantra from the HS president is San Diego is here to stay but you'd be hard pressed to find a sole who will agree with that when they are behind closed doors.

Advice to Senior Management – Replace most if not all engineering mid management. Review all Program Managers true body of work and recent performance and replace as necessary. Lift 3rd year of furlows and double merit increase for 2011 to show commitment to the future. Staff project engineering core with people who know Project management as well as the product.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Hamilton Sundstrand

Pros – The people are so hard working. I made some great friends while working there. The benefits are "so-so" compared to other places that I have worked.

Cons – Too many unclear expectations. They do not invest back into their employees. Do not see there employees as assests. Employee satisfaction is very low. Their HR group is in support of management, not the people (people have gotten fired for asking HR for help). I have seen more ethical violations occurr there in the last 6 months, then I have seen in my entire career so far. People are not held accountable for their actions. The management is not supportive of their staff. They do not empower their employees. Resources are too thin. People are expected to do 2 or 3 jobs. They are so busy putting out fires, they have no time to be proactive and gain traction. Oh, the best things is promotions go to those who screw things up the most! Go figure?

Advice to Senior Management – Reinvest in your employees. Something is systemically wrong with a company when site after site the employees are miserable, some more than others. Focus on "execution". Inconsistancy is everywhere - from management styles, communication, policies/procedures. Huge lack of leadership everywhere! Having managers be leaders in your organization causes distrust in your employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend