Honeywell International Reviews

Pros

Honeywell is a great place to work. Strong management, good relationships with customers, good global footprint. I would recommend Honeywell to anyone.

Cons

Hard to identify any major cons. Integration of Honeywell / AlliedSignal went well. Probably could use better cross fertilization between divisions.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep investing in global markets and developing countries. Keep driving six sigma. Employees continue to be the best asset that Honeywell has.

Pros

Company has great technologies in good industries as they say.

Cons

Compensation and benefits are quite bad.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to reward employees better with higher pay raises. I know so many coworkers are looking at jumping. I wouldn't be surprised if between people retiring and jumping ship 20% will leave my site in 2012.

Pros

the people i worked with was the best part!!!! and the only part!!!!!

Cons

Management could care less about you or your family...good people on the floor,terrible managers and everyone on the floor knows dave cote hates the union and wants it out..He would like to pay employees 9-10 dollars an hour and rape them on thier insurance, metropalias plant confims this statement.. the division itself sell over 300 million in sales and the pay is only 16 dollars and they shove down your throat about how you should be thankful for your job..Don't have a death in the immediate family either,cheap company could'nt even send a card or flowers...the employees thier know more than mangement proven fact,if not for the employees the division would crumble...management is trained to hate the union point blank....i will only miss the people on the floor.....

Advice to Senior Management

PULL YOUR HEAD OUT O F DAVE COTE _ _ _ and treat people like humans, Cause when the time comes and it is your job being taken away you'll realize how cold this company is, the employees thier are running that company as far as knowing the product and how to make it.

Pros

Upper management is open to changes and new ideas; middle management supports staff input and is open to new views

Cons

This particular segment struggles with the transition from a small to mid-size company to the constraints of working for a worldwide organization. There is much resistance from the rank and file to changes from the environment that has been in place for many years.

Advice to Senior Management

Staff that is unwilling to work towards the future need to be removed and replaced with employees who are not so resistent to change

Pros

This is a large stable company. Many good, skilled people to work with. Benefits and salaries are OK. From what I've heard, good place to work if you're female or minority.

Cons

Corporate bloat. Very difficult to get things done because of silo mentality. Problem is always "over there". Not enough people to support the work load.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop LEANing out the employees and start LEANing out the processes and controls.

Pros

Compensation. Business reputation. Ability to attract future employers.

Cons

People are bright, but can't get out of their own way.
Vicious, untruthful management was allowed as long as he met corporate objectives.
Too much bureaucracy.

Advice to Senior Management

Some of the smartest people I've ever worked with, but for some reason, they can't get out of their own way. Senior executives are imperial and too self-satisfied. Business performance doesn't warrant it. Don't be a watered-down Jack Welch-styled GE. Be the best HON you can be.

Pros

A company with great products and tradition, a flagpole in the aerospace industry.

Cons

Abusive leadership, incompetent management, disastrous employer-employee relations. A strong feeling that nobody cares for you - don't count on boss to take your side, he will always side with the others (both internal and external customers) for making points with leadership. "Why should I stick my neck out for you?' should not be your manager's policy, stated during a job performance review!

Advice to Senior Management

Change the failing company culture of bullying the employees and ensure a more friendly and respectful work environment. Make people feel at home!

Pros

Challenging opportunity and overall good environment

Cons

Very impersonal relationship between manager and individual contributor

Advice to Senior Management

need to take care the people who are reporting to them

Pros

Lots of bright people work here.

Cons

Promotions lagged performance and some hesitance to give without some consideration to time in current role.
Benefits being eliminated.
Hard to make a big career move into other aspects of the business from engineering.
Poor program managment.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees.

Pros

Salaries are very competitive, although Leadership will do and say anything to avoid giving raises. Leadership is very flexible with Personal Time off, although be prepared to work 24/7 the rest of the time.

Cons

Poor leadership vision - you can't "cost cut" your way into profitability. "One size fits all" approach means you'll do it the Honeywell way, even if it's less efficient and effective for your business. Employees are not valued - if they can find someone to do your job in a low cost region, then they'll do it, even if it means that 5 other people will have to pick up the slack due to poor work quality. No training opportunities, no advancement opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on bringing value to the customers, and not on cost cutting. Not EVERY cost is waste.....some costs are value added. Implement minimum annual training requirements.....most managers will have you go for years without training, to save the T&E expense. Stop outsourcing HR (staffing).....they do a horrible job. Allow managers and leaders to make decisions and spend money. It shouldn't take a VP months of approvals and re-approvals to staff his organization.....if you don't trust them to make good decisions, why are they in a leadership role?