Johnson Controls reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,534 total reviews)
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Joakim Weidemanis

79% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Johnson Controls has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,534 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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4.0
Oct 15, 2014

It gives you the opportunity to develop your skills and capability.

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Pros

There is online and offsite location training for both technical and non technical. It is improvement compared to when I first started. There is opportunity to work with people from diverse culture and background.

Cons

Sometimes you get people who don't know what they are doing but they had the opportunity to be in a leadership position. Not everyone takes the internal review seriously. They don't even bother to provide feedback until annual review. There can be high turnover of staff at certain locations and the replacement may not know what happened. They get frustrated and leave. This cause the vicious cycle to repeat itself.

3.0
Oct 14, 2014

Johnson Controls legal

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Pros

Lots of smart and passionate people from all over the world combined with a truly global footprint provides a wide variety of interesting opportunities for both vertical and horizontal career growth. The combination of three related industries (building, auto, power), all linked by a common focus on efficiency, promotes innovation.

Cons

Excessive focus on short term numbers and performance tends to favor unethical employees who are willing to massage numbers and game the system. It also hurts these employees who tell it like it is. The result is that problems can be swept under the rug to come back and haunt the company later.

2.0
Oct 14, 2014

Don't ever have any health issues while working here...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Johnson has a great telecommute policy. I worked in the office for 3 days a week and home for 2 when I first started but by the second year, I was able to be at home full time. Made a move across the country and was still able to keep my job. Work is plentiful and sometimes interesting, working in the department that I did, I was happy to be helping with energy saving strategies.

Cons

Management is underhanded and unorganized. They will give you a "rating system" of your skills and ask you to complete. Problem is when you attach point values to those skill levels, it's an illegal way to measure performance. Demoted because of both a major necessary surgery and a chronic illness (that in no way affected my abilities or performance except for recovery time)...make sure you are watching management like a HAWK if you have any medical issues. Middle management has no idea what they are doing and will employ and promote friends with no practical skills. Dollars are the bottom line and they lose good people right and left by treating them poorly. I was finally able to leave the company but my last paycheck was held for 3 WEEKS! I returned everything they asked for, signed all the papers, crossed every t......no pay. Also make sure you read your parting documents with a microscope, my health benefits ended the day I left the company, not at the end of the month as one might assume. Overall message here is to look out for yourself. Management is NOT your friend.

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