Honeywell reviews

Extremely old-school corporate culture that only cares about shareholder value. They will ask you to work evenings and weekends on top of your regular M-F 9-5 work schedule with no paid overtime or bonuses. They will look down on you if you can’t work all the extra hours but won’t tell you about this required overtime in the interview. Training is abysmal as everyone is too busy in their own tasks to train you properly. Most folks are so busy doing non value added activities because the systems here are so outdated. Overall the people are nice, but not very competent as literally no one knows what’s going on. Management constantly tries to push the “we need you to work the weekend” agenda without any regard to work/life boundaries. Honeywell operates very lean and utilizes extremely old software programs. The labs are filled with ancient tools and technology that were never upgraded so you’re spending all your time doing useless busy work to compensate for it. They don’t invest in themselves and it shows. Facilities are straight up from the 1950s and have never been renovated, or cleaned for that matter. Massive cable farm with zero windows. The fridges are filled with expired food that they claim they will “throw away at the end of the week” but never do. The cafeteria is a joke and way too expensive for a meal that I wouldn’t even serve to my worst enemy. Do not recommend working here unless you’re a new grad with no other options, or you don’t care about your job at all.

Honeywell drives to lower costs and eliminate workers to the point of hurting itself by simply not having enough resources to make all of the money on the table. It seems this is a construct of conglomerates where they starve some entities of resources knowing that not only is it a miserable place to work, but in the high level viewpoint, it maximizes the profitability of the portfolio. It does however seem that the high level sets a vision on inputs (investment money and people) overall to hit a certain target profitability. However this method ignores the ability to input more into a given business to get more profits from this AND it ignores the human implications which are real. Meaning, if I remove a chair from an office, the other chairs continue to function as normal. Humans are not chairs. Particularly in older R&D driven companies, all of the remaining humans are affected when other humans are abruptly removed. Some of the humans that the company would like to keep leave, and others care a lot less about their jobs. These costs never seem to be calculated.