Pros
- The people are knowledgeable and friendly, most older people are eager and willing to help. - UOP management still cares about employees - Great opportunities to learn - There is a lot of focus on job training and getting new people up to speed - Many opportunities to get involved (engineering, research, tech service, field service, etc) - Great way to start a career - Good 401(k) - 75% contribution to the first 8%, low cost options available - Challenging work, but there is still a good work-life balance for most people - Puts time and resources in developing tools to assist engineers (although the suspicion by most is that the engineers are training tools to do their jobs for them) - Honeywell is intent on growing offices in developing regions and more or less letting American offices shrink via attrition (massive RIFs in US but added positions elsewhere) - Unlimited vacation (also a negative, see below)
Cons
- Benefits used to be competitive but every year they keep taking things away. Oil companies blow UOP out of the water in terms of benefits/pay. - As of 2017 Honeywell no longer allows working from home, even if you live more than 2 hours away and the only site within those 2 hours is not even a PMT site. - The pension is no longer available for new hires, and existing employees were capped at their 2014 salary - Have to pay our own dental - Furloughs, RIFs and cost cutting even when times were good for UOP - they are tied to Honeywell performance, so there's no incentive to perform - Moral is extremely low at all levels, even management - No longer allow business class travel, even for flights to Asia - but we still bill the customers a business class rate for travel allowance - Sales is now driving the company and not the technology or innovation - Honeywell wants to focus on systems and not engineers - Vacation is no longer guaranteed and is completely subject to the whims of who you report to.