United Technologies Reviews

Pros

The Employee Scholarship Program is great and allows you to get your degree(s). That's about the only great thing.

Cons

Benefits are horrendous, company only concerned about saving money and not what the employees needs are. Pay scales seem a bit off and freezing merit raises was unjust considering upper management still made their bonuses.

Advice to Senior Management

Better start taking care of the employees otherwise you will not a solid workforce to earn revenue with.

Pros

Employee Scholar Program, Fortune 50 experience, broad exposure to industry, easy to develop professionally, paid week off at the end of the year without a hit to your vacation (shut down)

Cons

Understaffed, limited/non-existent growth opportunities, no diversity in management (tall, white males), no recognition of performance, over-reliance on temporary and contract workers

Pros

Good Products
Benefits
Good Work Life Balance
Interesting Product Lines
Some Really Great Mid Level Managers
Some Excellent Hourly Workers

Cons

Senior Management only cares about thier own.
Working level employees are stuck where they are.
No chance for advancement unless you are in the Old Boy Network.
All Work is on it's way to India or Poland.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybee it's time to get your heads out of each others butt, and find out what is really going on.
You will be without any experienced peole on the work floor soon, average age is over 50.

Pros

Excellent Benefits; Opportunity for Growth and Promotions; Tuition for College; Respected Company in the local area; Numerous locations all around the world; Leading Company for aviation.

Cons

Due to the economy being so fragile, I really can't think of any reason not to be employed with United Technologies or any other company to maintain a job.

Advice to Senior Management

The management team could a better job of getting to know the employees one on one and not based on what others think of them.

Pros

It is an excellent company to show on your resume. Learn to deal with management reveiws

Cons

Company does not promote career development. Poor reconginition of employee loyalty. Willing to let experienced professionals leave to replace with less experienced professionals at a higher compensation level

Advice to Senior Management

Need to value employees more and retain talent by fair market value for compensation

Pros

- Good benefits, 401 (k) matching, scholarship program, health, etc.
- In my limited experience with them, I have been impressed with senior management. They are more right than wrong as far as the direction they're taking Carrier (can't say much about the other units).

Cons

- Comp below average starting out and salary freeze (which has only thawed very little) has made that worse.
- Very unsatisfied with managers of my particular division (small division, won't name here). At least for my division, management has an extreme defensive "silo" mentality. Many times they have made decisions or "planned" with assumptions completely detached from how work is actually done. Management is either completely hands off, with no direction or accountability to workers, or micromanages and gives the end employee zero freedom. Either way is ultimately unsatisfying.
- Division's management has a very 1950's mentality about workers, we're here to punch a clock and not ask questions.

Well, after a few years here I could go on and on. I'll just say it's not me, morale is extremely low and most everybody is skeptical of our immediate management. It is hard to have motivation to improve processes when there is no reward for doing so and management will often shout down your recommendation anyway. Financial results are doing alright right now, but I can see customer satisfaction is declining due to poor management and not enough capacity to meet deadlines we promise.

Advice to Senior Management

Again, I am impressed so far with UTC's senior management. And our business unit as a whole (which contains our division via acquisition) is doing well. I just hope they are proactive in using both financial and non-financial results to evaluate managers and take the steps necessary for the long-term health of our business.

Pros

The benefits are very good.

Cons

There needs to be more respect for the parent company from the people within Sikorsky.

Advice to Senior Management

Break up the Good Old Boys network at Sikorsky.

Pros

United technologies pays for school which is a very good benefit that they have. They also give many opportunities for advancement.

Cons

Many managers manage the place like if it was a mom or dads shop and not a corporation. very bad in some cases

Advice to Senior Management

Get managers that have degrees!!! Many managers dont even have college degrees which is very dissapointing in a corporation that encourages to go to school and pays for it.

Pros

good process. intelligent and reasonable people. good benefiits and honest people who work hard. Industry is reliable and not too many tough competitors.

Cons

averge intelligence. a lot people with over 30 years of experience. very beauracratic and hierarchial.
communication to lower level is not goodl

Advice to Senior Management

fair review process and hiring within not from the outside. communicate to lower level employees and provide education experiennce to grow.

Pros

Great Place to work, smart people, good benefits and education programs. Ability to work within multiple divisions - Otis, Carrier, Pratt, Pratt Cananda, Hamilton, Sikorsky, UTC Power

Cons

Long hours, lack of recognition

Advice to Senior Management

better rewards for performance