Agilent Technologies reviews

The disconnect between upper management and lower level contributors hasn't been more apparent. The all hands meetings results in management exhaling a murmur of words that grazes the scalps of the audience, never quite landing where it matters. We all ask each other what it means. We shrug and wait. People cannot express their feedback honestly since they cancelled the company survey this year. One of the listed reasons was essentially, "We heard you the first time" after repeated years of people ranking compensation and benefits lowest on the survey. Yes... that was actually a reason they gave. Insane, I know. The One Agilent Way is slowly eroding.

The past year at Agilent has been full of change and uncertainty, between a new CEO, my immediate manager and his manager leaving, and two rounds of layoffs, just to get started. The communication around all of this has been subpar. I am not sure what to think about my company anymore. Not everyone at Agilent is great to work with. Some people are not very supportive and don't respond to emails or requests for assistance. My onboarding was not very good and it has been hard to integrate into the company because of the lack of a good foundation. Also, Agilent is a very complicated company with too much beauracracy, too many siloes and poor communication. Professional development and career advancement are not possible within Regulatory Affairs. The organization is flat.