Welcome to Honeywell. If you take a job here, kiss any career aspirations you might have goodbye. Unless you’re willing to lick boots of narcissistic leadership on the regular. I guess if you’re a narcissist yourself you’ll do well. Willing to humiliate and abuse your colleagues. People like that get fast tracked up the ladder here in my observation. Fair warning. It’s a career ki-ler for people that are not narcissists.
15 replies (most recent on top)
I’m actually learning a lot, though a good amount of it is “how not to do things”. I would not recommend this company for more than a 2-3 year stint though.
The nasty and paranoid failures in management tend to ferret out and put down anyone who looks too intelligent or looks like a threat, who looks like someone who will expose their incompetence and p*ss on their parade. Unless you are willing to hop to the tune of these treacherous losers and back-stabbers you should get out ASAP. Woe betide the naive buffoon who expects the HR corporate toads to come to their defense.
It’s every SBG in HW. Across the board extremely toxic culture. It’s abusive. Demoralizing. And yes, career ki-ling if you have even a shred of human decency. Sociopaths, psychopaths and narcissists love it here. Biggest mistake of my life.
Yep, I too worked for that messed up company over there in Mesa. The company that is currently all over the news right now regarding their airplane model with a door and window plug blowing out during flights. I was glad to leave that company but especially glad to move away from St Louis where I worked there for them. Once you accept a job at that site up there it is extremely hard to get out either finding another internal job or leaving the company. Buyer Beware when their Recruiters come calling. It was more than a personal career set-back for me. Thier culture up there is pretty closed minded, and they don't think twice in discriminating. If you are not originally from the area, you probably are not going to enjoy your time working there.
I see this a lot with the Gen Z's. They won't think twice in jumping ship for a $1,000 salary increase. They only see the dollar signs, and never look at the bigger picture. They never stick around long enough in any jobs they take to build a strong foundation in engineering. Working multiple jobs for 6-12 months in your 20-30's don't get you far. Six months goes fast, and most Gen Z's aren't able to walk on their own without a senior engineer looking over their shoulder which they loudly deny.
Also, how do they look to other companies when the hiring manager sees them as serial job hoppers, who they don't want to take a chance on.
Those with low self-esteem often feel exalted when some sleazy HR chump or cheesy recruitment agency offers them a position. They don't understand that this position is being offered to them because no smart job-seeker wants it.
Sadly there is a new generation of engineering hobos who "ride the rails" hoping for that one big break, doing short-term stints and mediocre gigs for their entire career, getting nowhere but frustrated.
I know someone who has banged his head against the wall for years repeatedly bouncing across the country for dead-end positions here, at GD, and many others. Some never get the message, never understand that due diligence is important.
@ayw+1qQiRHxa Absolutely identical experience for me, costliest decision I ever made in my life. I feel shame now now seeing it on my resume.
I was so excited to get a job with Honeywell. My wife and I moved for the role, and in my first week I knew I made a mistake. You can only digest so much during your interview and tour of the factory.... I wish I had researched more. Three years later I got out, and I honestly felt like I regressed in my career. I'm definitely in a better place now. Plus, I have an office that doesn't have roof leaks and smells like sewage!
It is not a joke that many people have reported having Honeywell on the resume damaging opportunities, at first I thought that was a bit too far until it happened to a guy in our team who quit. I have seen a handful of people on here saying the same thing. The reputation Honeywell has acquired in the last decade is shocking.
@qyw+1qQiRHxa Yeh, pretty much that.
I disagree, it's more like.... Welcome to Honeywell, get the experience you need. Then get out as fast as you can and go work for the company you really want to work at.
When I read these posts, I had an image of Honeywell executives walking on the corpses of their employees. Maybe that means that Honeywell employees are nothing more than flooring for the executive ball game?
The corporate drudges, brown-nosers, grifters, sycophants, parasites and opportunists are the only ones who look forward to working in a dump like this. They contribute nothing of value, so they are sheer overhead and waste hastening their master's demise.
Having worked at that messed up company over in Mesa, my career was DOA. What should I call my career now at Honeywell?