United Technologies Reviews

Pros

Good benefits, paid education, large size company

Cons

People not being treated as contributors

Advice to Senior Management

Always keep in mind, a lot of people working very hard to contribute to your success

Pros

Lots of opportunity to work on research projects outside one's primary field of specialisation.

Cons

Opportunities and messaging on career and professional development need improvement

Advice to Senior Management

Management is generally supportive, but can be a bit rigid and overly process oriented.

Pros

Great long term career paths and educational opportunities. Need to break into the Manager (level 4) to start seeing expanded opportunities.

Cons

As a lower level employee (level 5 to 8) it is sometimes hard to understand overall direction and strategy of the company.

Advice to Senior Management

The end of more generous employee scholar program will hurt long term ability to attact most talented early career professionals.

Pros

A company that tries to do the right thing.

Cons

Short sighted management in many regards, hence many do not walk the talk.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring back George David.

Pros

Many companies to work for, so lots of opportunity to grow and obtain promotions without having to go and apply to another organization.

Cons

Lots of politics to muddle through. Too much brown nosing. The pay isn't very competitive, even though they claim it is.

Advice to Senior Management

Try shaking things up a bit. A lot of the same people have been in power for a very long time.

Pros

1 .it is a large company.
2. there are more opportunities available
3. corporate culture is very professional
4. good chance to expend network

Cons

no enough training.
corporate culture is very professional , not so friendly and casual.
it does not offer enough entry level positions

Advice to Senior Management

no enough training.
corporate culture is very professional , not so friendly and casual.
it does not offer enough entry level positions

Pros

School paid for plus time off to study
voluntary lay-offs
easy airconditioned work
can use headphones while working to relieve any boredom

Cons

Union
employees and management hands are tied because of union threats.
Better vacation package

Advice to Senior Management

make employees accountable. Don't let having a union be an excuse for poor workmanship. More management on the factory floor.

Pros

Financially Driven
Boundless opportunity
Well run
Geographic and Business Diversity

Cons

Conservative Company
Harder to advance
Low compensation as compared to other MNCs

Pros

Flexibility, Work Life Balance, Respectful (Senior Management)

Cons

Communication, Decentralized structure that does not take full advantage of synergies driven by centralization

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate "down" more actively. Hone leadership skills.

Pros

When engineers work with engineers the team can work quick and efficient, especially when system requirements are absolutely understood. There are so much to learn from all engineers since everyone has different styles of implementing and designing a specific feature; but once everyone agrees on the design, the feature is absolutely efficient that is sustainable, maintainable, and upgradable.

Plenty of work to be done, where engineers are working multiple projects at once. Company is pursuing more advanced tools towards verification for automation.

Cons

The system team seems to be lacking the design of the entire product and expects the engineering department to identify all expectations of the unit. The unit has been designed and re-designed so many times, but yet the company has not been able to isolate the basic functionality as requirements and design implementation; so there are multiple implementations of the same functionality which leads to unnecessary work.

Upper management doesn't seem to recognize the engineers who work hard and long hours to meet deadlines. They like to move the schedule more to the left without allowing the engineers to test features more thoroughly.

Program Managers like to include new features that has not been consulted with the engineers and expect the features to be included in a release that has already been established. They also do not inform the engineers about customer's expectations/need to know information until last minute.

Expect to work long periods of time as an engineer due to tight scheduling and no time for testing. Also make sure you implement the design correctly the first time, else it's always the engineers fault.... All engineers just find it pretty cool (yeah... right) when we get to hear "why isn't this working"

Advice to Senior Management

Why must the engineers who makes the product gets treated pretty bad? I have noticed a trend when you push engineers... they'll leave the company. And when you ask the person who's leaving the company, the real response is always the management pushing or management is pointing fingers to blame.