Honeywell Reviews

I worked at Honeywell full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Opportunity to learn, train, and grow. Respected name to have worked for moving along in next position.

Cons – Matrix management structure makes it difficult to thrive. Corporate structure limits diverse business models.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Honeywell full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Benefits were vacation is set for year and not accrued. Could start using right away.

Cons – Lack of leadership. Breaks are only 10 minutes.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to concern of staff members more.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Honeywell

Pros – Good learning experience for the most part

Cons – Lack of compensation and development

Advice to Senior Management – Need better overall management

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

Pros – Many of the positions pay well, and the older/experienced employees are very knowledgeable.

Cons – Toxic work culture. Management does not care for the employees, and the employees do not care for management. It is nearly impossible to get people from multiple departments to work together or to show any sense of teamwork. Standardized tier boards are not correctly standardized. Workflow specialists are in charge of Tier 1 boards, but they are consistently scrutinized by multiple administrators who request differing information and/or organization of the boards. Allocation of "planned" material is changed on a daily bases--meaning that parts that have been set aside for specific jobs will almost always go to other jobs, after a customer complains about not receiving a specified unit on schedule. This leads to planning of parts constantly not mattering. The blue collar workers know that what they will work on will not be what was planned and that management will complain about them not finishing the units they were originally scheduled to work on. Also, HOS (Honeywell Operation System) management does not allow parts to be in the department if they are not currently being used. This leads to jobs that are set up for work the next day, missing when employees come in in the morning and the parts often being lost or allocated to other departments/jobs. Also, new employees are not properly trained on the SAP system, and specific types of jobs, GAMS, PROs, and others, require specific areas of SAP that even experienced employees have not been trained on. Furthermore, all benefits are reducing in quality on an annual bases, while the older employees are being forced out of the company in order to bring in lower paid and contract employees, whom the company does not care about either.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow some extra parts to be held in the basement / warehouse in order to have the material that is needed to meet your schedules--parts are constantly held at the supplier or go to the shop damaged. This needs to be expected, to a degree, and accounted for. Have a replacement lot for the most often used material. As parts come out, replace them and have a standardized amount in the bin. I don't know what to do about the lack of teamwork between departments or the disassociation that seems to exist between management and employee or between the older and younger employees. Time needs to be set aside for formal SAP training for all new employees and for retraining/additional training for non-typically used areas of SAP & SAP books need to be kept at each workstation for quick reference on typical and non-typical standard work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Flexible hours. Smart people to work with.

Cons – management by the latest craze

Advice to Senior Management – The process needs to adjust to the customer

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 more than 7 years

Pros – Great place to learn, get involved, have fun with many different people, types of products, factory locations around the world.

Cons – Over past few yearsOutsourcing of U.S. jobs has been rampant. Highly qualified excellent performing people let go and jobs moved to low cost countries at low cost salaries and output levels. No future professional career paths for U.S. employees.

Advice to Senior Management – If you want to grow your business in developed countries you need to treat your employees in those countries with more respect and pay for the hard dedicated workers that they are in support of outstanding business practices and existing and new products.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Honeywell full-time

Pros – Diverse technology, smart people, HQ in great location (southwest US), several strong commercial leaders

Cons – Typical public company behaviors - in spades, people are a liability to manage for the most part, three groups of people (in management) - those on track, "terminal band 4s", and those on the way out... be in the first group or move on

#1 problem... mgmt has no clue how to manage its corporate parent... the business is constantly sling-shot around the moon because CEO and his staff are unable to manage up at all, which results in constant churn and useless work being done by everyone... why do you think this is? answer: culture of career preservation

Advice to Senior Management – Of the 40 or so young, talented band 5 folks I worked with over my time, only 2 survived... why is that? the two that remained were smart nice folks but complete milquetoast - sorry but it's true... Also, there is no excuse for a band 6 to physically threaten / curse at his people. You know who.

No, I would not 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 10 years

Pros – -Push employees to learn Honeywell metrics which are helpful for the future
-Good 401k plan (dollar for dollar match)
-Very flexible working environment. Can balance work and life if needed
-Rewarding work and it shows in the product

Cons – -Career growth is very slow. Things must line up perfectly to move anywhere.
-ACS talks about growth, but don't invest in growing. Expect to do more with the same amount of (overworked) people
- New 2012 health policy is awful if you have a family on the plan.
- Pretty much eliminated the continuing education plan
- Paid in the bottom 10% percentile in my field

Advice to Senior Management – People that drove the business in the last 10 years are leaving because they are not advancing and getting scooped up by Honeywell's competitors. Secure the young talent that will continue Honeywell's initiatives and they will reward you. Hiring too many people counting the numbers and not enough people to solve the numbers and serve the customers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Challenging work with extremely intelligent people coupled with a great work life balance.

Cons – Enormous bureaucratic mess, many long-term dead-weight employees, daunting internal politics, excessive unnecessary processes, poor customer performance, heavy handed focus on axillary projects not directly related to primary jobs.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus less on pet projects.

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

I have been working at Honeywell

Pros – Very good training. Great pay

Cons – Management more focused on the processes and job titles than completing the missions.