Honeywell ACS Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell ACS full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Security of a Fortune 100 company.
Can gain lots of experience and training due to the large size and vast resources
Lot's of opportunity to move between the many businesses

Cons – Weak executive and senior leadership
The business is a slave to quarterly stock market performance - causes the uses of very short-sighted tactics versus long-term strategies.

Advice to Senior Management – Work to be inspirational leaders of people instead of self-focused managers of a P&L.

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

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell ACS full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Highly knowledgeable employees, team oriented across functional areas

Cons – Sourcing stuck in the past with their metrics--haven't caught up with today's trends and needs

Advice to Senior Management – Relook at Department Goals and make sure they are true benefits to the company and not just to individuals. Also that they are realistic and can be met--data supported.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Honeywell ACS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Opportunities to work in process control projects with interesting industrial clients

Cons – Rotten politics, it's all about perception and not the work completed. You need to make sure you complain first and fast as all scientific evidence will be ignored by management. Basically you spend more time thinking about how to CYA than doing your job.

Strip clubs were considered normal entertainment for staff and clients, even new grads thought this was an acceptable night out.

Training is a joke, they offer many courses but when you are back in your team you are unable to use your new skills as you aren't working on projects that used them. Worse senior engineers will not let you apply the new skills to improve a project e.g. to make it run faster, because they've always done it this way. Which was the way it was taught five years ago.

If someone it mates with the boss they cannot do anything wrong and the boss will happily let them scapegoat someone else who had little involvement with the project.

Lying to clients was common, there were cases where external parties had been paid kickbacks to approve designs

It's the only company I know that doesn't have integrity as part of there core values and it shows.

Advice to Senior Management – Well I would have told them to fire my boss but they already forced him to resign. They should have fired a few more people. The bad culture is so pervasive that you would need and huge turnover to break it.

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell ACS 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

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.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Honeywell ACS full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – 1. nice work culture
2. great work life balance
3. exposure to techinal skill
4. global project

Cons – 1. salary compensation less compare to market
2. sometimes process are overkill

Advice to Senior Management – Should interact with employee more often & pay attention of their issue.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell ACS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Competitive salary, not much upward mobility opportunities,

Cons – Health benefits not good and avoid Safety Products.

Advice to Senior Management – Build a culture of NPD for Safety Products

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

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell ACS

Pros – Its is a big organization, so you can get diverse experience of working with different people and there is a good scheme of getting global opportunities

Cons – Being huge company, the salary structure is conservative. Good employees are not given competitive package

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell ACS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – OK starting wages at best but be sure to negotiate high because raises never materialize.

Cons – No work/life balance. Poor benefits. Little no pay increases but ever-increasing responsibilities and demands.

Advice to Senior Management – Worry less about investors and more about retaining employees with attractive salaries and benefits.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell ACS full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Lot of opportunities for career, if located in eastern Europe

Cons – more and more jobs are moved from western europe to eastern europe.

Advice to Senior Management – stay humane....

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

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell ACS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The kind of experience you will get in this company is very vast and very useful. The knowledge development that takes place here, and the kind of projects that we get to work on is very unique.

Cons – Low salary and long working hours.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend