Honeywell Reviews

I worked at Honeywell full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexibility, established process, big enough to move into different roles to reduce boredom, internal opportunity to learn. Technical path exists parallel to management for those who want to pursue their area of expertise instead of management.

Cons – merit raises are routinely cancelled due to economic conditions or partial furloughs implemented. Morale fluxuates within different departments. Benefits reduced year to year.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire for talent. Hire for innovation. Spend time with the individuals who show the most promise. Be consistent. Reduce the overhead; too many processes.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Honeywell full-time

Pros – Benefits and salary are competitive.

Cons – Senior leadership is harden and has created an extremely stressful environment- especially in Marketing. Ruling by an iron hand seems to be management style. It really became evident with the change in management within a year. The culture now is one of low morale because the atmosphere is full of fear and bullying. ACS did well and raises still was not awarded but bounces still made it.

Advice to Senior Management – Senior management should find a way to positively motivate employees. Learn to create an environment where employees are not feeling threaten but can feel empowered to get a job done. The intrusion division needs leadership not bullies.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Good office environment at the local branches. Strong relationships with co-workers.

Cons – Corporate management does not support the growth of the business.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in growing the business by finding the right talent and investing in growing a customer base.

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 Honeywell full-time for less than a year

Pros – Most of the people who are here and actually want to stay have been here years, so from supervisors on down it's one big family (most of the time).

Cons – Payscale is lower than most of the other plants and its pretty much all Union on the maintnance crew side.

Like most places they have their cliques of family members and people who "know" someone who shouldn't be there based on work ethics.

The other main problem is the Organization and structure of the upper management and overall company. They prefer to budget tightly but don't plan things well enough so they end up spending more than they need to in the end.

Another issue is that you will most likely get switched from nights to days and crew to crew often and since they won't hire people very often, the crews there get a lot of OT.

Advice to Senior Management – The management is very understanding, but do tend to think small and simple in terms of how to do things, with very little common sense, but they most of the time try to defend you and help you when need be.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Great culture and employees here.

Cons – Promotion and supervisors often leave a feeling of "want" for the employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Do not concentrate on forcing employees to grow beyond their abilities. There is a different mindset needed to move from the floor into management.
Build comraderie by coaching existing supervisors on their interactions with those who report to them. There is no excuse for being rude to everyone you perceive as being "beneath" you.

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

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

Pros – Trusting managers. You can work from home.

Cons – Bad healthcare package and no opportunities for advancement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Honeywell full-time for less than a year

Pros – Company worked hard to get you nice ergonomic desks - you pick out your chair, mouse, they set up everything ergonomically correct. They had a nice (but small) gym & even offered training. Picnic tables outside were nice when the weather was warm. Close to lake - escaped to walk around the lake when I couldn't take it anymore. Did offer 3 sigma training.

Cons – Contract I worked required 42 hrs/week for 40 hrs pay. Even if you didn't have work to do, you were required to put in your "green" time. No pay for travel time but you could accumulate green time if you travelled. Ridiculous work that made no sense - busy work that didn't add value. Cube farm had street names so you could find your way around. No real break room. Weird safety briefings required daily - if you didn't hold the handrails on the stairs you could get fired! Many good sub-contractors laid off and treated badly.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't badmouth you sub-contractors who helped win the contracts for you. Don't allow workers to badmouth co-workers. Think of better ways to get the job done in an effective manner vs, just creating so much fluff that the govt will not have time to review it all.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Honeywell full-time for more than a year

Pros – Bright and energetic co-workers.
Great opportunity to innovate and engineer REAL technologies.

Cons – Pace is unrealistic and introduces too many errors.
HTSI has the habit of over engineering EVERYTHING.
Lean Six Sigma is simply given lip service, no real effort to institute.

Advice to Senior Management – Do EVERYTHING you can to retain your top talent. When the give notice, counter offer (don't let them walk out the door).

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Honeywell

Pros – Great company to be able to work on a variety of projects and types of programs. Great people to work with at multiple levels.

Cons – Being part of a huge company there is a lot of bureaucracy to deal with just to get your job done.

Advice to Senior Management – Some of the systems put in place are pushed to be company wide. Being that the company is quite diverse, some of these systems are just not appropriate for all business units. Try to set up a way to get feedback on how to remove some of these items where not appropriate.

I worked at Honeywell full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Large Organization, known world wide

Cons – Limited job growth, not always employee friendly

Advice to Senior Management – expand chances for job growth

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend