Cannibalistic Business Model - Principal Engineer Honeywell Employee Review

2.0
Dec 25, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good and aerospace engineering work can be interesting. Still seen are as solid company, so employment there looks good on a resume.

Cons

Honeywell's business strategy is consistent in two areas: constantly outsourcing American jobs to anywhere where labor is cheap while laying off employees in the US -- then using the profits from this to buy other companies to cannibalize. The dwindling experienced American staff are expected to clean up the substandard work that was outsourced while their salaries stagnate to generate more cash flow to buy other companies. New engineering development is limited as management likes to milk its technology as long as possible and then sells off business units no longer able to sell their outdated products.

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5.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
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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
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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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