Johnson Controls reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,492 total reviews)
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Joakim Weidemanis

80% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Johnson Controls has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,492 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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9K reviews
1.0
Jun 12, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Johnson Controls used to be a fun, good work life balance company to work for in IT. The benefits are good, and the people were good. This is no longer the case. The current leadership has gone done the path of outsourcing IT to infosys. There does not appear to be a strategic path. Entire teams have been outsourced, and vast amounts of knowledge have left the company. The work/life balance and great people are no longer at the company.

Cons

With the loss of so many great people, and the on-boarding of Infosys you can expect many long hours trying to resolve issue. Current IT morale is horrible, no one is motivated. Most of the Senior level IT Directors have resigned. The CIO has lost the confidence of the IT staff, and there are no senior leaders left that understand the unique systems at JCI. There will be no work-life balance until this situation is resolved. This is based on what's been happening in the first half of 2019. It possible they will see the error of their ways and try to right the ship later on. For right now, if you are in IT, I suggest you work anywhere else but here.

2.0
Jun 27, 2018

Taking advantage of people

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible hours, free coffee and once a year BBQ & corn roast. In leap years maybe ice creams.

Cons

Where to start. In more than a decade they delayed 3 times the annual merit increases to 18 months. They put you to learn you jobs (for what you never applied or hired) and giving you nothing more. There are no compensations based on merit only on other unknown criteria.

4.0
May 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay and benefits. Opportunity to move up in the company when you display proper traits. Lots of travel if you're into that sort of thing.

Cons

In such a big company you do feel like a small cog in a big machine. Control systems are very dated and archaic. Difficult to move between platforms because company decided a long time ago to make every upgrade backwards compatible. This means the new technology is not able to compete with what competitors are putting out so the product is slow, clunky and difficult to work on. I was told more than once by ex-customers that the sweetest sound they've ever heard was an old JC system hitting the bottom of the trash can....

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