I got an offer for b4 offering role in IA especially Artificial intellifence.
How is the culture there? Is it good time to join? How is the future looks like?
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Warning! There are some seriously weird people in Fort Mill. I would avoid, it is a dump also. I don't need to tell you about the business side, this site does a good job of that.
Artificial Intelligence is the word for the offshore sweatshop the company is becoming.
Another buzzword adopted by jokes and frauds spewing hot air.
Oh my! Is PSS still going!! How 5hit must be Zebra be if Honeywell still has market share, when I was there PSS was a clown show, I gave them 4 years tops but seemingly they are still hanging in there. Amazing.
Take the role if you're desperate. Otherwise, the CTO in charge of AI at PSS quit after all the AI programs were announced. The current AI products are being "created" by 1 "programmer" on their spare time. Mostly demos for show at this point. You will be in the spotlight and have a big sales target to make it work. Good luck!
Fort Mill is a grim place to work, run down, very dated and seemingly where they dump people that they want to keep out of view. That was my personal feeling, made me really depressed working in the noisy brown 80's cubicles before I was 'upgraded' to a lightless chicken coup 'office'. HR is pure evil there and IT utterly hopeless.....everything was horrible. I am getting PTSD just thinking about it. You will NOT be working with great minds or talent either, that I can assure you! If you search this board you will see that IA is in poor condition and most likely be broken up soon. IA in my time was highly unstable with a constant rotating door of managers and directors and ever deteriorating operations. AI in Honeywell is laughable, it has zero credibility in this space and hopeless R&D capability. This is not the Honeywell of 2- 3 decades back.
Terrible culture in IA. Don't take the job unless you are desperate. Leadership has no clue what AI does or how to use it.. they are trying to make the right noises to EM to save their butt and will layoff the team after the Hubbub dies down. It what they are known to do.
I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around AI to Honeywell, at least at this point in time.
AI even for consumers has a large % of hallucination.
Honeywell is in Aerospace, Industrial automation, Life Safety business etc - who is in the right mindset you allow AI to do something there?
Heck, even our software is tested so many times, due to risks - even a low probability risk will have high impact.
So I don't see much movement in terms of AI at Honeywell. It is more of a Hype.
Agree , AI is on the exponential rise portion of the hype cycle (self driving cars ! Woohooo).
Even if it is amazing and actually works that doesn’t mean people want to buy it.
Offering what? Would it be a product that you believe can change the world? iPhone or just… another phone?
I haven’t seen a novel idea at Honeywell in twenty years. Maybe quantum? But we bought that too…. Maybe some antennas … new guidance ? No .. that is all derivative.
I've been told by a several people that offering manager is probably the worst job in Honeywell. Sure seems to be true in Aero, can't speak to IA. Culturally b4 is all middle management with zero strategic input, be warned. As best as I can tell, no serious decision is made below the VP level (E band).
In case you didn't hear there is a very good chance that Honeywell will break up very soon. (Like announcement Thursday morning soon.)
AI is a buzzword at Honeywell, lots of groups are trying to make it work, nobody seems to have figured out how to make a profit with it yet. Might be a fad, might be something real. My money is on the former.
Charlotte HQ seems like he-l to work in, don't know about Fort Mill. When I've been to HQ it is pretty, but hopelessly sterile and everyone I meet there seems just unhappy with life. It is like they let all the evil management consultants run the place.... oh wait, they do.