Johnson Controls reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,507 total reviews)
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Joakim Weidemanis

79% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Johnson Controls has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,507 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Johnson Controls employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Dec 22, 2023

Not much good left!

Recommend
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Pros

At this point the only reason to work at JCI is to get experience and then move in to a company that actually cares about their employees

Cons

CEO, “go to market” pricing, constant changes that effect sales and employees, total disconnect between corporate officials and customer facing employees, billing issues, collection issues, moving key parts of the business to other countries…..so much more but this is the tip of the iceberg

3.0
Dec 10, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive pay, lots of opportunities to try various different things if you are adventurous, the work of a leader here isn’t very mentally challenging.

Cons

Benefits are not competitive, there are lots of opportunities to move around but that is due to very high rates of turnover in various roles, despite leadership not being a very mentally challenging role here, it is very psychologically and emotionally taxing. You will be given very little genuine power or freedom, you will be told to enforce directives and initiatives that would destroy the business if you actually applied them, and you will be given goals that seem impossible and berated and punished if you don’t achieve them, and you will do this all with essentially zero help from anyone above you. You will have to consistently find ways to be successful despite who you work for, the company itself and its senior leadership is deeply problematic. A weird mixture of absentee and disconnected from reality, yet totalitarian and inflexible in how it will tell you to do your job. Hint, if you listen to them your business will collapse and your people will hate you (and you’ll get fired anyway by those same people for under performing anyway), so the bulk of your job is to find ways to “check the box” for what they are asking while attempting to run a legitimate business and be a successful leader. I don’t think anyone at the highest levels is aware of how close this whole business is to potentially imploding and never coming back. I imagine this is what the environment in GE felt like before things started to unravel.

2.0
Mar 18, 2020

Don't climb the ladder

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Okay health benefits, 401k matching, vacation time

Cons

Don't try to climb the ladder here. HR will string you along with an offer FOREVER. They will not offer you compensation appropriate for the position and responsibilities you are taking on. They will only look at what you're getting paid currently and offer 5% more in pay. Doesnt matter if you're going from custodian to manager. Only 5% raise nothing more. Doesn't matter if your boss, your boss's boss, and his boss all agree you should be paid according to the responsibilities of the new job, they will only give you 5%. Then they'll say they got 10% approved, you accept, and they cut it back to 7%. The only way to get paid for the quality work you do is to find a new job with a new company for more money. If (!!!) you feel like coming back to JCI after that, then they might realize you're worth more money.

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