Agilent Technologies Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Agilent Technologies

Pros – work life blance and flexibility

Cons – performance evaluation process is not standard

Advice to Senior Management – Understand what individual is doing day to day and evaluate individual's performance based on that.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Agilent Technologies

Pros – 1. work on one of top notch technologies.
2. Excellent work culture, they give time to individual to learn and grow.

Cons – One delevelopment center just dont have faith on other center like development center in US/Germany will not have on India center. This most of the time create obscure, nonsense scenarios.

Advice to Senior Management – When deciding about the work, always ship complete ownership of say one product. this makes work easy and smooth. And more over people should be send from one center to other center more offen.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Agilent Technologies full-time

Pros – Generous pay and good work enviroment

Cons – lack version on software development

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Agilent Technologies

Pros – nice people, nice work env

Cons – business competitor is tight , not easy job

Current Employee – been working at Agilent Technologies as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Working at the development of cutting-edge technology

Cons – The times are tough, you can see cuts everywhere and very conservative innovation attitude.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve leadership and business development in Labs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Agilent Technologies as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Work on your own project directly under a manager
Lots of intern events in the summer
Great pay for an internship
Laid back culture
Diverse and interesting group of experts to learn from

Cons – No real cons, but be prepared for multiple tough technical interviews

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – ability to work from home, fair pay

Cons – Upper management is too far removed from the actual day to day business to make good decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your subject matter experts! Driving change for change sake doesn't mean you are improving anything.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – No predetermined work hours. Can work any shift. Job stability.

Cons – Low salaries far below market average at some locations and tiny raises if any. Lack of consistency in project planning and follow through.

Advice to Senior Management – There are a lot of disgruntled employees that would change jobs if the market improves. 5 years without even a cost of living increase.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Clear management by objectives, invests in its people.

Cons – I thought it was awesome.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Agilent Technologies full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – As an engineer, Agilent allows you to work on some of the most advanced development projects in the world. The focus on product quality is of primary importance to all levels of management.

The retirement and 401(k) programs are generous.

Cons – The Individual Performance Bonus program is a good concept but poorly applied. If you don’t work in the right group on the right projects, you will not receive a bonus no matter how innovative or proactive you are.

Advice to Senior Management – The IPB program is 100% opaque and shows a lot of favoritism. As currently applied, it is counterproductive and generating a lot of dissatisfaction in the engineering community. I suggest you create a reporting system similar to the annual management review reports and flatten the bonus structure.