Honeywell ACS Reviews

Pros

stability, always learning something new.

Cons

compensation is on the low side

Advice to Senior Management

create more opportunities for advancement for employees

Pros

For me, I chose this job due its department which caters customers worldwide. It gave me chance to work in various countries of the world at very young age.
Job gave me lot of opportunities which I got in early stage of my career.

Cons

They are paying very less compared to competitors. The department I am working is project department and there are different type of projects within ACS are taken place. There is lack of skills for these different type of projects & management is not taking care to train people properly before getting these various projects.
Employees struggle to give time to their family life.

Advice to Senior Management

As an employer please distribute the work load within employees evenly. It seems the people who are working hard keep on getting more work & keep on struggling & people who are just sitting idle keep on doing the same & there is no major rewards for hard work.
Please take good measures to satisfy employees to get their work to life balance. Please keep them satisfied with descent pay packages.

Pros

Working for 3 years to another company - same domain - it is a pleasure of discovering new feature s of Honeywell PKS.

Cons

You are stuck in doing only one kind of job and the promotion may arrive only after 3 years - which is every much considering that you have a solid background.

Advice to Senior Management

Think more to the employee - give him a chance to prove him self and do not stuck him on one type of job. He will get iritated and frustated by this - and in the end will probably look for another company.

Pros

Good pay, benefits, pension plan

Cons

If you're looking for praise and recognition, it's hard to receive. A lot of locations have closed down, layoffs. Depending on where you work and who you work for, mgmt styles are all over the place!

Advice to Senior Management

Accept more realistic goals when asking for our annual goals.

Pros

It is a good outfit where employees are truly empowered. Work hard and you will get rewarded with promotions and recognition. Good pension program and a friendly work environment.

Cons

The new 2012 health benefits packages will bankrupt many employees; and they are trying to sell them as good, hoping employees can't do math. There is constant repetition in communication and endless meetings that mimic the movie Office Space's "Did you get the memo about the cover sheets on the TPS reports?" Many times minor incidents are treated the same as serious problems, because "that is the standard" way of solving a problem. Problems get solved, but the meetings and report-outs can be exhausting.

Pros

Exposure to what makes a big company work (big thinking, slow moving, careful, metrics, politics, etc); great brand on the resume; diverse company with exposure to lots of market/mfg areas;

Cons

big company environment is full of politics and can be too slow/careful at times - definitely not for everyone; way too metrics driven and often the wrong metrics; management needs to allow more control from lower levels

Advice to Senior Management

focus on big picture and management of your teams... empower lower levels to manage their own scope of work and to live or die by it... right now micromanaging is killing us and is letting poorer performers fly under the radar

Pros

The job security to good.

Cons

I don't like the amount of traveling required.

Advice to Senior Management

compensation needs adjustment

Pros

If you are willing to move around, sometimes to crappy places like Minessota, then you will rise.

Cons

The big guns are disconnected from reality, just like anyplace else that is that big

Advice to Senior Management

Realise that everything is not an aircraft control system

Pros

Honeywell has really good benefits, the company is doing good in these tough economic times. Management is really considerate when it comes to requesting time off. After a 90 day probation period you are allotted 40 hours of paid vacation time, 40 hours of sick time and 20 hours of personal time off.

Cons

Some divisions are based on contracts, so as soon as contracts are terminated or end, there goes your job. So there is no guaranteed long term relationship with the company

Advice to Senior Management

Invest more money in training your employees, specially cross trainin. I dont know if its job security, but only 1 or 2 people know how to do one task, i thik all employees should know how to do everything within the company.

Pros

good start and lots of opportunities. it looks good at the CV and you can change if you find opportunities

Cons

workload is not balanced. HR is not always honest, and the salary you get can change if you only change the job

Advice to Senior Management

not find the savings from the headcount, but from spending a lot of money without any control. that is the advice