Honeywell International Reviews

Pros

Exposure to global business environment

Cons

Highly political environment with not much meritocracy

Advice to Senior Management

Need to learn from new companies such as Google and Apple

Pros

Great people and clost commute.

Cons

long hours in a global business.

Advice to Senior Management

Understand boundaries.

Pros

Excellent Learning Opportunities, Good Training Opportunities, Work Life Balance available in pockets, Large organisation and very accomdative towards employees looking for lateral movements withing organization.

Cons

Pay packets on lower side at lower and middle management levels, excellent at higher management levels comapared to the peer organizations. Work Life Balance available in pockets,
Fringe benefits almost nil.

Advice to Senior Management

Please become more People centric and show to people that they are needed. Improve quality and tone down the visible focus only on meeting the numbers.

Pros

Truly global company with opportunities for learning and growth; most people are competent and can be nice and helpful.

Cons

Compensation & Benifits well below market level for junior-level employees; no visible potential for promotion; rewards not matching performance/results to a point that your efforts are seemingly pointless.

Advice to Senior Management

People generally stay in HON for 2~3 years (in China) and you should know why. Instead of handing millions of dollars to recruiters/headhunters/in-house OD people, use it wisely on employees benefits and rewards.

Pros

If you want to just "Maintain" then Honeywell is for you.

Cons

Must have political connections to go high up in the company. Working hard and doing a "Good Job" simply is not enough.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

High level of education of US employees. Good effort by management to keep everyone aware of current state of the business and employee recognition by SBU.

Cons

Lack of advancement, cutback in benefits. Poor coordination of working units- ie design a product in Brno or China, create the prints in China or India,. marketing in US, build site in Mexico, quality in US. IT support in India slow to respond or not competent. Travel restrictions hamper design, purchasing and quality functions.

Advice to Senior Management

The cutback in benifits and the lack of advancement will hurt companies overall performance. Hiring the cheapest labor, costs Honeywell more than it saves ( in hidden costs and down tiem) but looks good on paper.

Pros

Decent facilities, really easy work, almost impossible to get fired.

Cons

The company wastes potential of employees. There is a lack of training and opportunities for growth and no apparent link between achievement and reward. The company is quite disorganised and there is little management support in solving problems. This is very frustrating for employees and customers. There is a culture of staying in the office late for no reason and employees spend most of their time in fairly useless meetings that turn into endless whinge-sessions.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't rush post-merger integration of acquired businesses as this just leads to chaos. Stop wasting effort on pointless initiatives like six sigma or 5S. Cut down on unnecessary meetings.

Pros

Great benefit package. You are vested in 401K after 2 years. Also vested in pension after 5 years. Very competent and bring people, although the culture depends entirely on the business unit. I was in Honeywell Aerospace for 2 years and the Automotive group for 3 years and there is a huge difference. Aerospace is slow to change and very stagnant, things get done slowly with lots of old-timers reluctant to change, not for you if you are bright and ethusiatic. Automotive division however is more fast paced, and has younger average age.

Cons

Not the most creative organization. As with any large companies, promotions come with playing politics and not necessarily to the most deserving employees. The past focus on moving job and resources to emerging markets (Mexico, China, Eastern Europe) means long term quality in product, customer service, competency is very much sacrificed for short term agenda and a check list to report to the top.

Pros

Decent Pay
Mostly Good People
Benefits are OK

Cons

No focus on identifying high performing employees and mentoring them for career development.
Organized into funtional silos cross functional co-operation and collaboration very hard
Salary increments are very low
In lean time furlough and suspension of 401K matching is implemented for employees but not sure how much sacrifice the high level managment makes

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on people they are the drivers of sucesses

Pros

Good work culture and flexible timing

Cons

slow work procedure in the honeywell

Advice to Senior Management

should be aggressive in driving the processes