Seagate = Jenga
Seagate and Jenga are amazingly similar. The game at Seagate is played by removing an increasing number of worker bees at the bottom, with the blind belief that those managers at the top (who don't do work but do manage) will be stable and fine. Problem is, there is a limit to the number of worker bees that can be removed before the whole stack collapses in a noisy conflagration. SEAGATE BE JENGA, dun be on STEROIDS.
I kno, rite? I just ordered the boat I always wanted with the bonus Seagate is passing out next month.
This sounds EXACTLY like Seagate now. Honeywell is ahead of their time on disenchanting employees.
Another Glassdoor review... makes Seagate look good (if it was 2012)...
Honeywell- what a sad place
Sr. Test Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace (Former Employee) – Plymouth, MN – June 18, 2012
Worked at Honeywell Aerospace in MN.
The good:
Roof didn't leak (but windows did).
Scored some free anti-stat fake running shoes.
The bad:
Our building of 400 employees had ONE computer help desk person. In 2011. Really. By phone, the computer help desk consisted of people on static-filled lines talking quickly with difficult to understand accents. In many cases, they helped you solve the problem they wanted to solve, but not the one you had. Or they simply didn't have a clue. After working at Seagate with an excellent help desk system, I was flabbergasted at the cheapness. Some IT VP at Honeywell must have saved the company $50 million in one quarter by gutting the IT department. Excellent short-term thinking. I'm sure he was able to buy the boat he always wanted.
An incredibly bad micromanager who thought people were objects he could wind up and march around like toys. Creative thinking was, well, not allowed.
A corporate culture that values influence peddling (can you say Honeywell PAC?) far, far, far above charitable giving. Employees are STRONGLY encouraged to give money to the PAC. An employee orientation Powerpoint included no less than NINE pages on indoctrinating new robots on how to donate to the PAC.
A lower morale than I have seen anywhere in 25 years. A thirty-year employee explained it to me: when Allied Signal bought Honeywell, they removed "acting human" from all job descriptions, and replaced it with "generate income without smiling".
Wanna work more and vacation less? My vacation dropped from 5 weeks at Seagate to 2 at Honeywell. No negotiation possible. Absurd. But I did get a free cookie at orientation, and an opportunity to quit.
Pros
free cookie at orientation.
Cons
a desire to end my life by eating leaded paint chips, shed from the dilapidated walls of my plymouth, mn micro-cube.
I used to work at Seagate years back. Thought it was still a good place. Guess not. This is my review on Indeed from 2012.
Honeywell- what a sad place
Sr. Test Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace (Former Employee) – Plymouth, MN – June 18, 2012
Worked at Honeywell Aerospace in MN.
The good:
Roof didn't leak (but windows did).
Scored some free anti-stat fake running shoes.
The bad:
Our building of 400 employees had ONE computer help desk person. In 2011. Really. By phone, the computer help desk consisted of people on static-filled lines talking quickly with difficult to understand accents. In many cases, they helped you solve the problem they wanted to solve, but not the one you had. Or they simply didn't have a clue. After working at Seagate with an excellent help desk system, I was flabbergasted at the cheapness. Some IT VP at Honeywell must have saved the company $50 million in one quarter by gutting the IT department. Excellent short-term thinking. I'm sure he was able to buy the boat he always wanted.
An incredibly bad micromanager who thought people were objects he could wind up and march around like toys. Creative thinking was, well, not allowed.
A corporate culture that values influence peddling (can you say Honeywell PAC?) far, far, far above charitable giving. Employees are STRONGLY encouraged to give money to the PAC. An employee orientation Powerpoint included no less than NINE pages on indoctrinating new robots on how to donate to the PAC.
A lower morale than I have seen anywhere in 25 years. A thirty-year employee explained it to me: when Allied Signal bought Honeywell, they removed "acting human" from all job descriptions, and replaced it with "generate income without smiling".
Wanna work more and vacation less? My vacation dropped from 5 weeks at Seagate to 2 at Honeywell. No negotiation more...
Pros
free cookie at orientation.
Cons
a desire to end my life by eating leaded paint chips, shed from the dilapidated walls of my plymouth, mn micro-cube.
Do what a couple of us have done, if your late with a project, explain that there was an IT related issue and the current support wasn’t there to take care of it, you or your team had to resolve it on your own….not sure what we did that fixed the problem, but we did it...
New CEO goal is to reduce OPEX, largely by slashing IT. Time to market and quality are suffering as product engineers now wait for inexperienced IT staff in Asia to resolve issues. Some issues have not been resolved, IT just say SME was laid off, go find another way of doing your job.
Personal opinion, the company could not care less about its business anymore. The decision makers are either looking for buyer for their business, or pure waiting for geostorm to hit competitors?
Already happening in some areas. It took me a month to get a replacement laptop. It was actually in house almost 3 weeks ago and the overworked IT person (yes, only one when there was once four) took that long.