Agilent Technologies Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Good work-life balance, though weighted a bit too much toward work at times."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Manage your own career development. HP does not do a good job at developing talent; talent is expected to develop on their own."

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Bureaucracy is disproportionate to changes being implemented. The same change process applies to both a simple password change as well as a full system release."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Manage well."

"A great location to work in the Bay Area with a vast diversity of jobs to perform!"

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Vast array of job types that required observation and planning. Good safety team to work with - especially as a consultant. Multiple sites were required for service so the job never got boring."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be professional. Safety was a serious matter!"

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"It was in the Bay Area. Expensive place to live at the time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. The safety team was easy to work with."

"Good company, as split was done management did poor job of setting up as separate corp."

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"It was as much a company as a family."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself, be prepared to work hard but the right manager can mean a well spent career."

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"When spun off, the consolidation of IT and other services resulted in poor implementation and needless layoffs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hope they have matured to a company that was what HP originally was."

"One of the best places I have worked."

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Camaraderie."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good luck."

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Good work life balance, great people."

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Adversely affected by recession."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Empower managers."

"Great place to work, need to work on Retension of Talent and not only ones who anyway stay!"

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Independent working style."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good organisation as a career option if you can say come-what-may!"

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Identifying talent but not able to retain them."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The talent appraisals have shown top performers leave the organisation within 1-2 yrs, it reflects serious incapability of management in employee retention. Top management must try finding an underlying reason, especially in labor intensive regions."

"Enjoyed working there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"This is a tough time to be a manger. Surround yourself with good people and reward them accordingly."

"I have enjoyed working at Agilent and am looking forward to utilizing my background and skills to being successful wherever I am in my next career."

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Great management and culture. Great benefits and freedom to make a difference as an individual."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Great company!"

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Large company mentality."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Put the politics aside and utilize the old 'HP WAY' of management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn the business model for a pure software product so they can make better decisions."

"More buyout than development."

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"The group of people and managers were good to work for."

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Projects were moved overseas and to vendors. Work became less challenging and less interesting."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Increase engineering projects in design and development instead of just integration."

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Left the company early 2008 to pursue a career in Tour Management."

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Nothing that I didn't like at H.P. It was time for a personal change in direction, so I resigned from the company."

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"everybody is very professional"

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"I am a temp"

"Great place to work."

"Company growing through aggressive acquisitions - somewhat disruptive."

What do you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Strong brand, good benefits."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Understand where the growth areas are and where they are willing to invest."

What don't you like about working at Agilent Technologies?

"Very matrixed, for too complicated at times to get things done for customers - can move too slow. Very risk adverse in competitive deal pursuits."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more agile and move more decision making closer to the customer."