Johnson Controls reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,508 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 9,508 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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3.0
Aug 16, 2022

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Pros

It's a solid company with a great reputation in its industries. For most, they pay decently well. Also it is nice being a remote work making it a very convenient job. Most of my hourly co-workers are fantastic to work with.

Cons

Its a very dog eat dog environment. They say on one hand how concerned they are about employee burnout and stress but then require we spend EVERY SINGLE MINUTE on the clock to be working on something regarding our job or in advance of our career at JCI. At every other company I've worked for since the early 80s this was not a problem. They all understood, especially when taking phone calls all day, we need a moment or two at times to lower stress. They also have an employee review system that really is not balance or helps the employee in anyway. Basically with your yearly review, how well you can write it is weighted much greater than the actual job you do. We were even given an example by our supervisor that if you have 2 employees who did the exact same quality & quantity of work, the one who writes their review better gets the better raise each year. This is ridiculous, the number one factor should be the quality & quantity of work NOT the employee's creative writing skills which has nothing to do with our actual jobs.

3.0
Mar 11, 2022
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Pros

Although slowly, Johnson Controls has started to put in place better benefits such as paid parental leave. They offer comparable health care benefits to other companies their size, and there was a decent work/life balance during my time at the company. The organization is transitioning to future technology with a focus on the digital front, and the organization is willing to invest in exciting projects and necessary resources so long as the business case makes sense (I've been at companies where project and resource costs outweighed business cases). Johnson Controls is also doing a better job at communication by moving towards centralized project and resource processes that make clear what is required to get a project moving.

Cons

The 401k match at Johnson Controls is given and taken away regularly. I lost 3% of my annual benefits this way 2 days after starting with the organization. Given the record profits and very large stock buy backs at the company, cutting employee benefits seemed unnecessary (occurred before the COVID pandemic). A VP/GM at Johnson Controls (Christian Eichmann) actively encourages employees to ignore company safety policies which was a major red flag for me and a reason I left the company. He turned the office I worked at into a political atmosphere and made it an uncomfortable place to work. Johnson Controls seems to be at odds with this approach. So, I'll say the organization as a whole is a good place to work, but anything under Eichmann's branch is not.

1.0
Jan 6, 2022
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Pros

Lots of demand, so job security is pretty good assuming the company is still around a year from now and doesn’t spin off the installation branches into a different company or bankrupt that entity.

Cons

Every project is rushed, so you basically are perpetually picking up the pieces as it’s all built. Also other companies you work with are always trying to scam JCI for a quick buck. There’s also an insane lack of talent to pull from, so with a few years experience you’ll find that you’re all alone, with the only people capable of helping you being long retired. Management has a way of driving the company with the pedal floored while the check-engine light is on. I’ve noticed the only happy employees are incompetent salespeople who don’t put any effort into developing what they sell, so you’re left to figure out what they sold. No one in sales ever gets fired either. At this point if I quit or fell ill, our company would be the subject of multiple lawsuits by our customers, just because the only person left to absorb the workload would be my boss, who’s prepared to retire. His boss I don’t think has worked a day in the past twenty years; just moves spreadsheets around and sends nasty-grams when timecards are late.

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