I totally agree with people who think Honeywell is doomed because it drives away the best employees, and rewards those who deserve it the least. The logic is quite clear, the talented will take their talent somewhere else, and only mediocrities will remain here. I am interested in when did this trend start? I mean, I believe it’s always been that way, but since when is that problem obvious?
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It’s been happening for quite a while. You can attribute much of this to HR for the creation of the “over the top” silliness within the HPD system.
OP, this is probably why a lot of talented people leave the company...because those that are mediocre seem to get rewarded more than those that actually produce work. I also think that the 9 block system is total BS and drives teams to work against each other.
@1ggo, ironically, in Aero Eng, the guy who p!mped out "Project Engineers" the most, aka JE, left Honeywell. We have so many dumb ideas that take on a life of their own, long after the main management proponents have left. It sad and funny at the same time.
I noticed overwhelming praising of new employees who made PowerPoints of others real work and tons of “project engineering” snakes about 5 years ago. It’s just disgusting that they take back door bonus with almost zero technical know how. Outsourcing has turned into a dirty land of the bonus for “project people”.
Its been this way over 20yrs....you meet requirements just enough to not get on PIP, you get 2% raise, you exceed, massive overtime, go to guy, you get 2.5% raise.... they incentivize middle of the road, the extra effort is barely rewarded.... just my experience, knowing hundreds of cases over the years...
Every pay day
It started when Silicon Valley dwarfed the market capitalization of the penny pinching industrial companies. Industrials have people manager CEOs that were not smart enough to cut it in Silicon Valley. Nest/Ecobee/Samsung etc. ran circles around Honeywell in home controls. That is the CEO’s lower IQ exposed. Not DC’s or DA’s fault for being mentally dwarfed by Silicon Valley CEOs but you have to accept reality that Honeywell is the minor leagues of intellectual horsepower because of who is running the show at the top. Hon unwillingness to accept lower margins (aka paying for talent) for the opportunity to create monopoly pricing power is a display of low IQ not exhibited in serious Silicon Valley companies.