Johnson Controls Reviews

Pros

Busy.
Drive + Knowledge = $$$$$
Industry leader

Cons

Turnover "Managment"
Communication.
To much time spent counting beans.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire and hire the right people.

Pros

Very competitive wages and, because JCI is world-wide, the possibilities for career advancement, are endless.

Cons

Technology is not streamlined, to give employees a single customer interface, so you don't truly have a complete customer view/history, making it extremely difficult when interacting with other divisions.

Advice to Senior Management

I completely believe in the 8 Simple Rules for treating our customers and, wish those beliefs would be carried over to employees. I have applied for a couple of positions within JCI and, am very disappointed that the hiring managers failed to communicate status. If a candidate is no longer considered post-interview, at the very least, send an email advising the candidate of this. Our job posting system could be designed to automatically send a denial reply to an employee that makes it to the phone interview stage. Require the hiring manager to complete a survey. This is professional and courteous.

Pros

Easy commute.
Love my work.
Love to work with my friend.
Love my customers.
Get paid on time.
Learn new thing.

Cons

Complexity work process.
Small Bonus pay out to employee compare to performance.
Low increment.
Big gap between management and lower staff.
Don't take good care of customers.
Poor collaboration internally.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't pushing people to do thing unreasonable.
Be realistic.
Listen to the employee.

Pros

Strong leadership, well run company

Cons

Relies too much on consulting resources

Advice to Senior Management

less reliance on consultants

Pros

Great products and good people. Unlimited online training materials and never a shortage of tools to do job. Mechanics are average with the York guys having no concept of contract profit. Techs are very green with more emphasis on profit over quality. After working there two times in ten years, there will be no third chance- life is two short.

Cons

Local management never in place long enough to make a difference.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the sales people at least sell enough to cover their salary without rebooking a previous contract with a minor upgrade.

Pros

1) Johnson Controls can turn to be a tough negotiator while doing business deals, but knows how to make money.
2) Senior management able to find right opportunities and pursue those opportunities.
3) Diversified work force, You will see the world working here.
4) Most diversified business among fortune100. All three diversified business (power solutions, automotive, building efficiency) running in profit. Stable source of income.
5) They had put all there eggs in sustainable business, so stable.
6) Innovator of many modern day power, automotive and building technologies. starting from the first thermostat.
7) Paying good dividends and investor returns
8) Good work life balance, but sometimes you have to burn midnight oil, depends on the project situation. But company recognizes the individual employee efforts.
9) The most Green company among fortune 100.
10) Benefits are good.

Cons

1) Doesn't take much risk while doing business. Only going for deals when they smell money and are sure that they can make money. Sitting on a cash pile company should take more risks, while adopting technology.
2) Pay is not top notch, but above the industry average. Bonus is the key. If you get good bonus(based on company performance) you earn better than much of your peers in other companies.
3) 140000+ employees, solid block, promotions are tough.
4) Missing to identify talents working on the end of the hierarchical chain. Sometimes missing to put the right people at the right spot.
5) No fun at workplace. I had previously worked with technology companies the crowd is younger , there are more employee fun events not only business update meetings. That's very much missing.

Advice to Senior Management

1) Good Diversified work force, but need to think more like a company having global workforce. Long term cross boarder transfers of employees and collaboration with other offices should be strengthened. Should go more global.
2) More brand awareness need to be created as a Technological leader. Attract talent in technology to become more sustainable. Bring in more younger workforce and fresh blood. Pay more and bring in talent from technological companies. Have more employee events (not business related) younger talent will automatically get attracted, will boost the morale of existing employees.
3) Accelerate the pace of growth in Emerging markets (mainly China and India) ,at current pace JCI will miss lot many growth opportunities. Go for inorganic growth if needed. Tap the local talents in those markets well like (eg. Software talent from India)

Pros

Good company and solutions with some good people left

Cons

Senior management has no clue what they got into after aquiring a company

Advice to Senior Management

Please look at your employees well

Pros

Great benefits granted from day one on the job.

Cons

Managers are not provided with the training they need to be manager. New employees are left to fend for themselves if they do not have a good manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Branch managers require training on how to manage.

Pros

+challenging and engaging work
+Wonderful and very dedicated people to work with and learn from
+Global environment

Cons

-So many managers & none of them are on the same page
-most are working a workload equivalent to 2 jobs (may be all corporate America now)
-work/life balance recognized as a problem, but no strides made to improve

Advice to Senior Management

Take the time to build alignment within your ranks on roles & responsibilities for your team. Work to genuinely address workload and work/life balance issues!

Pros

The pay was good, the benefits better, co workers are great people always willing to help. Had many good experiences while there.

Cons

The corporate model has changed over the years and the branches are micromanaged to death. Always worried about the numbers and this leads to poor customer satisfaction as well as low employee morale. The field personnel are the only reason this company still has customers.

Advice to Senior Management

Let the branches make there own decisions, the bean counters in Milwaukee have no idea what it is like for the field personnel and frankly I believe do not care.