Honeywell International Reviews in Phoenix, AZ Area

Pros

wide range of learning opprotunities

Cons

Supply control methods create hassles when accessing even the minimum needs such as Ethernet cables for each meeting conference room, notebooks, etc., …. for daily job related activities

Advice to Senior Management

would love to see the company promoting more remote working since the company has several excellent tools to support and monitor its employees, plus, while the company targeting at saving, remote working could save workspace and energy bills, especially during the summer.

Lacking of the mutual feedback. Only employees receive the feedback from their leaderships but there is no tool/method for employees to voice their opinion to their leaderships in place.

Pros

Like minded co-workers who understand and act according to the concept that helping the customer is number one. Stable and fair company with a great benefit package...they still pay pensions. In our particular department the people are all really close and enjoy coming to work despite the stressfull nature of the job.

Cons

Since it is such a large company it takes awhile for decisions to be made and actions to be taken and sometimes the people making these decisions are too far removed from the people these decisions will be impacting most, i.e. the customer facing employee and the customer.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your customer facing employees more and actively solictic their feedback on how to improve service, technology, etc.

Pros

Recommend working at Honeywell only if you have no other option.

Arizona is a great place to live.

Cons

Non-technical upper management (business trained only) unqualified to properly manage a high-tech company - a widespread disturbing trend of which Honeywell is at the forefront. Environment is such that the best people are leaving and those remaining no longer care about doing a good job. People who once loved their jobs now only complain. Major customers are increasingly dissatisfied. It is so sad to compare the company now to that just ten or 15 years ago. Great managers (whom their people would do anything for) have all been replaced by mindless MBAs. Would state that more strongly but don't want this to be deleted.

Advice to Senior Management

Why are you destroying the company? Don't see how it can be more personally profitable than doing what's best for the company. Don't go to anymore seminars that tell you that you don't need to know anything about what your company makes. Bean counters make terrible leaders - trust your technical people. Realize that all people with somewhat-similar sounding job titles are not interchangeable.

Pros

Highly contemporary in their functional areas (IT, Finance, HR, Sales / Marketing), excellent benefits, ability to work internationally, fast pace for role transition, wide scope, span and complexity of roles within each organization. The organization as a whole is very process driven, thrives on process improvement, Six Sigma, Lean, and Leadership Development. The range of roles within each function can be interesting and career enhancing. Many roles include dual responsibilities or secondary "specialties" which is also career enhancing.

Cons

Not especially nimble, heavy amount of politics, a lot of "churn and burn", expected to give 125% all the time, 24 / 7

Advice to Senior Management

Less internal focus, more outward focus

Pros

The company is in various products, you can learn about many products and industries within Honeywell.

Cons

Each department has conflicting metrics (this sometimes counteract productivity).

Advice to Senior Management

Make all the metrics flow throughout the entire organization.

Pros

Good Benefits and interesting work. You can make time for golf in the afternoon. Working people are nice and honest but if they hace an office with walls they can not be trusted.

Cons

Honeywell will work you until all your energy is gone, pump you for information and outsource your job. They will have you train your foreign replacement before they lay you off. The company has tremendous knowledge that is constrained by overhead rules. These rules like sending you a reporting on indirect spending and telling you to review the report to waste more time is classic. If you find a problem with it and report it, it costs you more.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that several recent program issues such as 787 Flight Controls were made significantly worse by cutting budgets. The management rotation allows for one VP to trash an area and move on before the results are known.

Pros

The company matches 401K contributions at 100% and also has a defined pension plan - that's pretty good in comparison to other companies today

Cons

The cyclical nature of the business makes working at Honeywell challenging at times. The senior management will keep their salaries and perks at the expense of the rank and file workers.

Advice to Senior Management

Customers and shareholders are important, but all successful companies have to strike a balance between the customer, the shareholder and the employee. For instance,after working for 20+ years, the company has now renegged on paying for 100% of retiree health insurance. I suspect the retiree benefits will be reduced every year on an ongoing basis.

Pros

Ability to work on high end technology in aerospace both in aircraft and space. The opportunity to work with well educated colleagues from all round the world. The oportunity to work with really bright & creative technical folks who love working in areosapce

Cons

Typical large corporation with the MBA metric dejour changing quarterly. And if management thinks this is really important then they need to do it instead of requiring the technical staff to charge to unproductive time to do managements tasks for them.

Advice to Senior Management

Get over the MBA metric world view & do what you are paid to do - taking intelligent chances.

Pros

Honeywell gives employees great opportunity to travel around the world when necessary to visit co-sources in other countries or team members that you have worked with virtually. There is so much work on conference calls that you lose the people connection so traveling is a key component. I like the way Honeywell enables managers to direct their own resources. I feel that I have a direct responsiblity to make my team successful with the clear goals that my manager provides. I feel challenged in the work that I do because of the aggressive goals that I am asked to meet. It makes the reward (often small monetary "bravo" bonuses) feel earned.

Cons

Many people are often expected to know more than your job description initially entailed. People work beyond their strong knowledge areas and often is harder on them and not as rewarding as it may not be where their interests lie. I believe that this eats away at morale due to the time it takes people away from their friends and family outside of work. Because we are global there is a lot of time spent doing these heavy workloads outside of normal office hours. As these resources hit burnout and leave, we are unable to hire externally in many cases which only increases the burden on current employees or forces us to hire internally from a pool of resources that might not be the most qualified for that position. I know this isn't the case in all of the Honeywell groups, so take this with a grain of salt.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize when you're overworking people because they will leave to find other opportunities - freezing hiring is not always the best option.

Pros

Large global company. Potential for global opportunities. There are a lot of good, skilled people. Written policies are good.

Cons

Age descrimination. Culture tends to be up and out. Metrics focus on department performance, not overall value chain. Short-term focus. Most out-sourcing efforts have been overall negative to the company. Too much yo-yo hiring.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to existing talent. Increase respect for people. Implement existing policies better. Particularly Six Sigma and Lean - Lean and Six Six Sigma carefully applied could make in-sourced processes i.e. IT support, recruiting, manufacturing much more efficient than low-cost-labor out sourcing.