Honeywell's one goal = make David Cote wealthy (all other employees go pound sand) - Engineer Honeywell Employee Review

1.0
Nov 3, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You won't have a lot of left over salary to make frivilous purchases like an new car, nicer home, cool vacations, etc. You can pretty much work the hours you want. Your manager is too busy trying to score his/her next move to watch you. This is because most people who advance at Honeywell never stay longer than 3 years in one place. Keep moving so you never have to live with the decisions you made. Anyone who stays in their current role longer than 5 years is a loser.

Cons

Worst health care premiums and employee benefits in the Fortune 500. How about $7400/year for medical insurance on a family of four? And that's with a $3000 deductible. You're into your own pocket for $10,000 before the company spends one penny on you or your families health needs.. My business has lost over 30% of the salaried employees in the last 3 years. These were 20+ year employees. Every one of them went to a company with better benefits and pay. In most cases it takes 2-3 quarters to get approval to hire their replacements. Dave Cote has said "we will not be replacing employees in USA and Western Europe". So this is a dead end opportunityfor most North American and European careers. If you are looking for a job and you are a USA/European technical person - look somewhere else. Honeywell Sr. Management believes in the engineering prowess of such technical "hotspots" as Tianjin,CH, Bangalore, IN and Tijuana, MX ! That's where they are investing for the future. Not the USA.

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5.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

Great teammates, great team leads who support and train well. Professional and structured work environment with freedom to develop individual talents. Lots of staff appreciation and camaraderie. Lot's of positions and opportunity for growth and promotion. Amazing learning experiences with opportunities to work, learn and interact with team members from diverse roles backgrounds and professions.

Cons

Starting salaries can skew lower, system redesigns are often flawed and redundant. Promotions are given however they require several before high salary and also they are often very political. Sometimes they would promote people who were neither proficient or knowledgeable but simply favored by a particular higher up.

1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Only the individual contributors at this company are nice. All managers are pretty useless.

Cons

Worse run company I have EVER been exposed to. I left on good terms but I have been needing to call their HR department for almost a year to finalize a paycheck and get a W2 corrected, which they never did and has created so many headaches with my taxes. Just the worst kind of incompetence. I am shocked this company even functions. Whoever is over HR and payroll should actually do their job. 0 accountability here. I am glad I got an offer to go somewhere else while I hadn't wasted any significant amount of my life there. I will forever, tell everyone I meet to never waste their time with Honeywell or the newly created off shoots.

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