Johnson Controls reviews

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.

For how big a company it is, JCI operates in silos - that is to say that the different divisions don't talk to one another and it is very hard to transfer into another group. Stress can be high at times during the year, especially around Aug/Sept right before the close of the fiscal year. Variable pay (bonuses) don't start until you are at Sr Manager level, which is a very small % of the employee population...and even then the bonus % aren't very high and seldom get paid out at 100%