Honeywell is playing a game of Jenga. With every RIF, they remove more employees who hold up the company and keep things stable with their knowledge and stack the executives with higher pay. How long until they remove the last piece and the whole thing comes crashing down?
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What do you call a Honeywell subject matter expert?
Answer: A former employee!
Here is my personal experience at Honeywell.
They are constantly doing reorgs; I was told so by different people, so it sounds like it is the norm. People can only hope that they do not end up without work, after every reorg.
I have seen two rounds of layoffs in 2023, at the place where I work, and there are more people who will quietly be laid-off (don’t ask me how I know. ;)) before the end of the year.
There is a lot of cost cutting happening right now.
No travel, no contractors, and there are ongoing rolling furlough weeks, with select groups of employees taking a week without pay at a time.
One last thing that I have noticed, is that a lot of the people who designed many of the products and systems, and knew them inside and out, are no longer there. No true “experts” left, and this keeps coming up way too often in different conversations.
On a related note, one would expect products managers (offering managers) to have some decent knowledge of their portfolio, but that does not seem to be the case either.
Weird …
Get back in your stinky hole HR troll!
@2ebe+1oVuKFhH Poster is right. This place will outlive all of us. Everyone has predicted Honeywell will be gone in 5-10 years for the past 20 years and it is still here.
@2ebe+1oVuKFhH What a clown, Honeywell will not be here in 15 years, perhaps not even 10. Of that I can categorically assure you!
@2ebe+1oVuKFhH If you have been here since 2008 and have not had the tiniest awareness of what has happened in that time you shouldn't be employed and honestly you are insulting a lot of incredible people who have been victim in the last 6-7 years.
You can only be a HR troll or a Band 5 parasite, no one else could be so stup1d. Simple.
Oh and you will get down voted :)
Everyone has been declaring Honeywell's demise on this board since 2008. Too many RIFs, customers not happy, employees not happy, losing top talent, wrong people being promoted. It's been 15 years. 15 years from now everyone will still be complaining about the same thing.
Let the down votes begin. But you have to admit this is true.
Do you remember the days when a Product Manager had a degree or decades experience in the business or category they were working in, when products were designed properly because all parties came from that industry or were very talented. I miss those days!
Now we just employ any hoohaa Product Manager from a completely random business with zero experience of the industry or product getting way overpaid and expecting us to teach them everything as they fail miserably. When I ask the Product Manager , sorry 'Offering Manager' which decision to make and they just say 'I don't know' I wanna walk out the door. I hate this place, it is so, so unprofessional, we are the laughing stock of the industry.
I’m tired of seeing people getting promoted. We have no degrees or any previous knowledge of product lines. They have been applying as principal for a while. We’ve been getting record rework and scrap.
The answer to your question. I really believe they’re setting up divisions to fail. Then they can say the cost of doing business has skyrocketed and due to stiff competition. We have decided to move your division in order to be more competitive.
Low-cost regions here we come. Remember, no one in their right mind is going to say they’re not qualified for a job. Then you gonna give me that speech. You really don’t need qualifications or experience on the product line. You can learn as you go.
Yes! I’ve seen the results of hiring your buddies. I think the only qualification you really need to have at Honeywell. Push parts. When you have rework and scrap. Push some more parts.
Work more overtime. We’re running out of days to work overtime. In order to keep up with our customers demand. If you ever seen airplane two, we already have the Grim Reaper standing behind us. We’re gonna be like an airplane and crash.
Lately, they’ve been promoting total company folks. They walk around with big heads. They all think they’re better than everybody else. The only qualifications you need to get a job with more pay. Have a friend who is an upper management.
Let me tell you about the hiring system. The constantly hiring just their friends. They all cover for each other. I’ve never seen a company that has no accountability until I worked at Honeywell international.
@OP+1oVuKFhH Agreed. Throughout the many years I worked for HW my innovations generated multimillion $ savings. I was riffed last year. Short sighted leadership can’t see past numbers in a spreadsheet. Better off elsewhere where innovators are valued.
strap-on (purposeful word choice)
funny
@1itp+1oVuKFhH Thats a good observation, except in nature when a host becomes to weak, the parasite will release the host. Not Honeywell run it will keep su-king until nothing but a husk is left.
Regarding R&D that has been the Allied signal way since the beginning. Cut R&D, the subject matter experts that created the success and customer support. Then when sales start to falter and tech refresh is needed, just go out and buy another strap-on (purposeful word choice) company to bolster sales, and repeat.
Every system can only support definite amount of parasites. If number of parasites and especially their consumption is higher than system productivity, system dies. That applies for companies, corporates, society, countries.. etc. That is endless circle.
When company removes experienced guys, they save money in short term, but in long term they are loosing development race, customers and much more money than thy saved at the beginning. We have large number of examples in worldwide industry. R&D cuts, 4-7 years cycle when many products become obsolete or need reworks and maintenance followed by market drop and another attempts to "save" things by removing another R&D people. Spiral to he-l turns to be steeper after every cycle.
The irony is when they closed down mine and another office they actually called it project Jenga! You could not make it up!!
It won’t be long now. It’s very bad in the trenches. Customers aren’t happy either.