Pros
- Management tries to boost company morale by throwing fun events. - Flex schedule (sometimes) - Promising space-hardware-related projects (if you can get in with the right people) - Interesting history and exposure to heritage hardware used on cool space missions - Manufacturing-floor-folk are nice (if they don't know you're an engineer)
Cons
TL;DR - Specific to engineering: Harbors toxic engineering culture and nepotism. - Many engineering firms have this problem and Honeywell is no different: they latched onto workers 30-40 years ago, let them get lazy and sop up a huge paycheck while they got old, and now they're all retiring without passing along their "company knowledge" to the fresh-out-of-college "replacements." - The culture of the manufacturing floor may be supportive and homey to each other, but the second you introduce yourself as an "engineer," everyone finds a reason why they can't help you. - Engineers are encouraged to not participate in company events, team building exercises, in-person meetings (with people in the same building, mind you), etc., and instead are expected to eat alone in their cube while they work and "sit-in" on meetings through Skype; despite the day-in-the-life-of the engineers looking like "go to cube, get online, Skype meetings, go home," the company still seems pretty firmly against telecommuting. - Of the influx of new, young engineers, too many of them are learning, accepting, and practicing the wrong ideas about what engineering in aerospace industry is; many follow the "monkey see, monkey do" and end up copying the lazy, arrogant, and pompous behavior everyone thinks of when they think "engineer." - Now the benefits package: since the turnover rate is so high, the company has decided to not pay a cent into anyone's retirement fund until the end of each fiscal year as incentive to get them to stay; health insurance, etc., is expensive for what you get.