Is Agilent Technologies a good company to work for?

Agilent Technologies has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 3,215 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 351 reviews)); "The people are great and very friendly." ((in 227 reviews)); "Great environment and culture" ((in 218 reviews)); "the benefits are good and include paid overtime" ((in 187 reviews)); "Great colleagues and site in Barcelona" ((in 81 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 115 reviews)); "and the salary was low" ((in 82 reviews)); "The cons are if you are one of the unlucky ones to land a bad manager." ((in 72 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs if you’re not in Santa Rosa" ((in 40 reviews)); "Absolutely callous upper management and HR view employees as numbers." ((in 24 reviews))

What are employees saying about Agilent Technologies layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Agilent Technologies layoffs and their outlook for job security at Agilent Technologies in 2026.

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 , Folsom , Winooski , 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

(2,674 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 2,674 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

3.0

Jan 8, 2010

Great People; Lost Corporate Culture

Project manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great people to work with; very diligent Get to work with the latest technology in the world Very intelligent people; best engineers in the world Good pay - on a national scale Average benefits (unfortunately getting worse) "Golden Handcuffs" comes to mind

Cons

Corporate culture is wandering (running?) from their HP roots; do they still value employees as key to their success? I think not in most cases. They have so much emphasis on the bottom line and trying to be "in vogue" with the latest management & business strategies that they don't really know what their business i any more. There is a big emphasis on centralization and consolidation - what made HP great was their decentralized & autonomous structure and decision making. This has lead to Agilent feeling bloated, bureaucratic and slow to decision making. Unfortunate that most of the senior managers I know are too risk averse and non-strategic in their thinking to take advantage of the growth opportunities in front of them.

3.0

Dec 28, 2009

Company floats...employees sink.

Manufacturing technician

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Leading edge of technology. You're surrounded by highly Intelligent working people. A huge campus that could have held 4,000 people. I personally survived 14 layoffs.

Cons

Smile while overseas exploiting poverty and cloak outsourcing as training which the end result was giving American jobs away. Live off HP's reputations until it is time to normalize all aspects. HP was a leader. Agilent is a follower. Money, money, money kept us outside of the customer's head. Shouldn't you know what your customers wants? The CEO's legacy is more important than that the company stands for. Share holders govern the company's future. And seriously...what is wrong with "Made In USA"?

3.0

Dec 25, 2009

Agilent review

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible working time; professional process and management; mentorship program; Management by objectives; the oppurtunity to learn the programming tecnology and experience the industry process

Cons

The performance feedback review frequency is too low, once per year; the emphasis of the management team is put on the stakeholder, not on the employees; the relative salary difference between America and China is much bigger than other complanies

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