Harris Reviews

Pros

The people at Harris are the best reason to work here. Everyone is incredibly friendly and willing to help get the job done. The benefits are excellent at this company, and the location can't be beat.

Cons

The yearly review process is awful. It's tedious, the software used is flaky at best, and the results are biased. It is incredibly difficult to judge people who do completely different jobs, so I will give management a little lee-way, however we should not limit high performers to 10%. If someone is a high performer, they deserve to be rated that way, not just if they make the 10% cut. I understand the money and how to distribute that, but the wording on the review and the way the promotion handbook is laid out causes issues with top 10%. The work seems to be cyclical and not consistent. Finding a good team and continuing to work with that same team is difficult since the company is so large.

Advice to Senior Management

Communication has improved over the last few years, which is great. However, there is still great room for improvement for getting the young employees at Harris the opportunity to grow and advance quickly within the company.

Pros

Reasonable Pay - That's about it.

Cons

Most unethical Management company i have Ever experienced. Documented lies in which they communicated Intentions about Plans for Divisions or their philosophy to Invest in New Technology Went by the wayside within months of Not in One but in several indepent cases.

Incredibly Short Term, Wall Street driven quarterly thinking!

Alot of arrogante due to the war driven growth of the last Years. As this Cycle Comestibles to an end it will Be interesting and certainly painful to See how much worse this Company will Start treating its employees....

Advice to Senior Management

Get a backbone and stay the Course on your Investment decisions otherwise Watch Technology Edge dissapear and the Company crumble.

Pros

laid back , easy to work at , good people , not hard work

Cons

very disoganized , no real direction, change control was not existant

Advice to Senior Management

more meetings , more tasking to engineers , better change control . better financial organization .

Pros

The people that work there are for the most part really dedicated to doing a good job and work very hard. The benefits are very good and the pay is fairly good as well.

Cons

Way too many changes with executive leadership. The direction of the company changes every 6 months due to this. They are very short sighted and truly are only concerned about the short term for investors. Working for a public company can be very challenging.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop changing your teams and direction every 6 months. Your team members are becoming very frustrated.

Pros

Good exposure to video networking products.
People are very helpful.
Management is very considerate in giving time off when it is necessary.

Cons

Lack of coordination between different divisions within Harris.

Advice to Senior Management

Make recruitments for interns and coop as per the schools calender.

Pros

Harris has the benefit of good location in central florida near the east coast beach. The benefits are outstanding. They pay up to 3 degrees 100%.

Cons

Harris tends to give small raises and increases unless you are getting a promotion. The offices are boring with little decoration. There's very little visibility between programs. No one knows the name of your company unless they're also a defense contractor.

Advice to Senior Management

Need more employee get togethers to improve visibility.

Pros

Freedom, Responsibilities, great co-workers, good pay. They have plenty of different areas of technology that you can branch off into and you are not pigeon holed. Also there are opportunities for security clearances.

Cons

Long days since you work 9 hour days

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure you promote the people from within

Pros

This company cares about his employees. Even when relocating offices, the packages are ok

Cons

to much internal politics and changes

Advice to Senior Management

Keep going on but stop moving right and left

Pros

The benifits are great. One of the better benifits packages out their.

Cons

Unless you are in the in crowd, forget about advancement. Awards are rarley given. The company will promote it fairness about promotions and advancement but managment constantly breaks it own guidlines. They set goals for individuals to make to advance. Then when those goals are made a whole new set comes in to make advancment. It is a moving target and specific guidlines. Reviews are done by people who do not know what you do and groups you against everyone in your field across the company. You work for several bosses instead of one. No clear cut chain of command in the company. The only way to make a carrer at this company is being freindly with someone that has power and the postion to make it happen. It is not about your work it is about who you know, who you go to church with and who your kids go to school with. You get the idea.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the matrix managment it does not work.

Pros

Harris provides many development opportunities in the engineering profession and Harris is a very ethical company.

Cons

Work hours can be very long and although the company has a generous vacation package, you may not get to use it to its fullest.

Advice to Senior Management

Management has not embraced the concept of employee inclusion in decision making to the fullest. Many decisions could be more well thought out if more employees were included in the decision making process.