TL;DR - Specific to engineering: Harbors toxic engineering culture and nepotism.
- Many engineering firms have this problem and Honeywell is no different: they latched onto workers 30-40 years ago, let them get lazy and sop up a huge paycheck while they got old, and now they're all retiring without passing along their "company knowledge" to the fresh-out-of-college "replacements."
- The culture of the manufacturing floor may be supportive and homey to each other, but the second you introduce yourself as an "engineer," everyone finds a reason why they can't help you.
- Engineers are encouraged to not participate in company events, team building exercises, in-person meetings (with people in the same building, mind you), etc., and instead are expected to eat alone in their cube while they work and "sit-in" on meetings through Skype; despite the day-in-the-life-of the engineers looking like "go to cube, get online, Skype meetings, go home," the company still seems pretty firmly against telecommuting.
- Of the influx of new, young engineers, too many of them are learning, accepting, and practicing the wrong ideas about what engineering in aerospace industry is; many follow the "monkey see, monkey do" and end up copying the lazy, arrogant, and pompous behavior everyone thinks of when they think "engineer."
- Now the benefits package: since the turnover rate is so high, the company has decided to not pay a cent into anyone's retirement fund until the end of each fiscal year as incentive to get them to stay; health insurance, etc., is expensive for what you get.