Is Agilent Technologies a good company to work for?

Agilent Technologies has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 3,216 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months. 66% of employees would recommend working at Agilent Technologies to a friend and 53% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Agilent Technologies have been left by employees working as Intern , Program Manager and Field Service Engineer (FSE) .

Does Agilent Technologies pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Agilent Technologies employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Agilent Technologies. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Agilent Technologies?

66% of Agilent Technologies employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Agilent Technologies 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Agilent Technologies?

Field Service Engineer (88) , Account Manager (60) , Software Engineer (59) , Customer Service Representative (53) , Engineer (43) , Project Manager (42) , Intern (33) , Manufacturing Engineer (33) , Manager (31) , Field Service Engineer (FSE) (28) , Manufacturing Technician (27) , Program Manager (25) , Business Process Analyst (22) , Product Manager (22) , Director (21)

What are the pros of working at Agilent Technologies according to real employee reviews?

"Work/Life balance is good because there is not much projects are going on in their business (unfortunately)" ((in 350 reviews)); "People are great and easy to work with." ((in 230 reviews)); "the benefits are good and include paid overtime" ((in 192 reviews)); "Pays well and bonuses can be good" ((in 80 reviews)); "Colleagues that are friendly and helpful." ((in 80 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Agilent Technologies according to real employee reviews?

"Bad management : if you are employee that time the hr behavior good but if you resign when hr talk too rudely" ((in 124 reviews)); "and the salary was low" ((in 83 reviews)); "The cons are if you are one of the unlucky ones to land a bad manager." ((in 71 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs if you’re not in Santa Rosa" ((in 38 reviews)); "Upper management does not take employee suggestions seriously, and gives backlash for trying to make things better if it doesn’t align with their ideas." ((in 27 reviews))

What are employees saying about Agilent Technologies layoffs in 2026?

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What are the top reviewed Agilent Technologies locations?

Santa Clara , Wilmington , Santa Rosa , Carpinteria , Cedar Creek , Boulder , San Jose , Boston , Colorado Springs , Frederick , Philadelphia , Austin , San Diego , Lexington , New York , San Francisco , Denver , Winooski , Folsom , Chicago , Los Angeles , Ankeny , Washington , Memphis , Santa Clarita , Englewood , Fort Collins , Detroit , Dallas , Houston

Agilent Technologies reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(2,675 total reviews)

Padraig McDonnell

56% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

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Agilent Technologies has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,675 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Agilent Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

3K reviews

4.0

Jun 21, 2010

Agilent Sales Team

Sales engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great technology and industry-leading products. Agilent has the best research and development team in the industry, or so it seems from inside. The team nature of the field sales group is refreshing, and the 'never lose alone' slogan is justified. The pay is competitive, the management is respectful and still retains the open door and 'walk around' style of the old HP from Bill & Dave. In some places there may be too much management; but most are valid.

Cons

Communication between divisions and homogeny of resources tends to be lacking. (For example, a website with technical resources from one division may be structured completely differently from another division, and they are not linked together coherently. Too many internal tools and processes overlap and change too often, specifically with the complication of the new 'channel partner' initiative.

2.0

Jun 16, 2010

Driven by bean counters and surveys

R&d software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great people for the most part, very technical, very respectful. Good work life balance if you have a family. Management is pretty flexible in this regards. Great for life sciences and chemical analysis since they seem to be heavily investing in it.

Cons

No career path especially if you're not in Life sciences or Chemical analysis. Salaries are claimed to be on par with the industry, not sure which industry they are comparing with. Bean counters rule the place with cost cutting as the mantra. The semi-annual employee survey is the only thing that seems to jolt managers into movement.

4.0

Jun 8, 2010

Agilent Technologies Legal

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Still has some of the great old HP culture, soft corporate hand, good internal resources to help in the job. Agilent believes in work-life balance and allows you to have a family. Solid history helps.

Cons

Biggest downside is lack of job security as Agilent joined the ranks of thousands of other corporations in exploiting the cheap labor market in Asia. While it has helped fix the overreaching of prior years it has resulted in large, empty buildings with an air of sadness inside.

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