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United Technologies reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(735 total reviews)
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Gregory J. Hayes

76% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

United Technologies has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 735 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The United Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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735 reviews
1.0
Jan 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Employee scholarship program - free tuition, regardless of study area.

Cons

Incompetent middle management. Recently, there have been many lay-offs and movements of senior managers. Middle management has been aware of them, but failed to communicate any information to us. In fact, they herded us into a room and demanded to know what rumors we'd heard about the reorganization (while indicating that they knew everything and would not tell us about it). Low recognition of staff. One of the products released this year had been under the guidance of someone who was laid off. The new manager came in and took all the kudos for the new product, with no indication that it had, in fact, been 90% completed by the previous team (including people still in the organization).

3.0
Jan 1, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I work for a division of Pratt & Whitney which is one of the major business units of UTC. We were purchased from the Boeing Company a little less than 3.5 years ago. Before that, we were owned by Rockwell International. I have worked for these three major multi-national corporations essentially without changing desks. Of the three, UTC is the second best. Regardless, I get to work on - among other things - rocket engines and I get to be part of hurling humans into space. What could be bad about that? UTC has, over all, really exciting products to be working on and I get to work on what I consider some of the most exciting. That's reason enough for me. Overall, as well, the pay and benefits aren't all that bad and the corporation tries to be responsible and respectful.

Cons

UTC is very hierarchical and backward-looking when it comes to its management style. The company is top-heavy with attorneys, overly protective of Intellectual Property, and verges on the paranoid with respect to intranet and Internet security. There is little trust displayed in how the corporation protects those interests it seems to divorce from the interests of its employees. They have also moved to outsource virtually all of their information technology assets. This appears to be unfortunate in light of the seismic changes occurring in web-based (Internet or intranet) services and the design principles behind them - sometimes referred to as Web 2.0. My experience is that very few people involved in IT (especially the "leadership") have little idea of what's going on in the outside world that is driving the development of web-based services. So . . . when it comes to information technology as it is used in support of business processes and innovation, I would aver that United Technologies is well behind the curve and is digging itself a hole that may be hard to climb out of someday; maybe soon.

3.0
Dec 5, 2008

stressed out

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Exciting products; challenging work; opportunity for advancement if not necessarily in a particular field of expertise or geographic area

Cons

compensation appears to be below market; office resources are too limited; high stress

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