Rockwell Collins Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"I enjoy the type of work I am doing currently."

What don't you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"The work that comes to my desk is not steady."

"Most of my positions were good or great! The last one was horrible."

What do you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"I loved the challenge of the engineering projects and most of the people I worked with."

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

"Verify that the interviewing manager is the manger you will be working for. This company has a mandatory 10%-will-be-low-performers policy and then they wonder why their attrition is so high."

What don't you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"I believe one of RC's flaws is they allow too much empire building. Job satisfaction depended heavily on which department and group you were in."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't shoot the messenger. Do something about the problem personalities and USE the data from the after-action reviews, don't just sugar coat to make things look better than they are."

"Rockwell WAS a great place to work... things change."

What do you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"The work is exciting. I am working on cutting edge products. I always have the ability to see my product through from concept to installation. We even have troops come to visit and tell us how well our product works."

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

"Look and speak professionally. Graduate from a well known engineering school."

What don't you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"Not a friendly place to work. If you fail you will be fired. Upper management is disconnected from designers. Often the management team makes a decision which conflicts with the engineering team, but the team is responsible for meeting management decisions. Then we spend months trying to figure out why we failed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better communication is needed. The entire team must understand and buy-in to the project to be successful."

"Efficent company with standard corp structure."

"A very good place for an entry level engineer wanting to obtain experience working in the aircraft avionics industry. Very poor management at all levels who do their best to prevent you from doing your job and getting things done. Project engineers generate schedules that make them look good (very little time or resources required to design and deliver a product) but a nightmare for individuals actually performing the work. Requirements constantly change requiring hours of rework, however, delivery date remains fixed. Engineers working on the project get blamed for not meeting unreasonable deadlines."

What do you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"I like my freedom to make decisions on my own."

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

"Yes, I would recommend getting to know as much about your department as possible. I wouldn't ask the basic questions of what would I be doing and things of that nature. I would focus more on: how do you cadence projects, what are your priorities, where do you see the company in ten years. Things like that."

What don't you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"I feel the company is poorly managed. To be more clear there are too many levels of management. Also, too many workers have become complacent and don't provide much value to the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest implementing a more stringent performance evaluation. I would also suggest a better project management process."

What do you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"Rockwell has groups that are involved with state of the art designs. Very dedicated selection of hard working engineers with highly disciplined skills."

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

"The company hires top notch engineers and they do pay for performance. The work is challenging and young engineers will learn much from the various programs they have ongoing in both military and commercial sectors."

What don't you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"Current mood is not good with several RIF's in the planning. The word from corporate is many jobs are going to be outsourced."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Corporate management is divided into the commercial and military sectors. Currently the military sector is downsizing while the commercial sector is holding its own. The corporate vision is to expand the business corporate enterprise goal is to gain more market share in the international business."

"I've worked for Rockwell Collins for 10 years in multiple departments. The enjoyment of the job highly depends on the department head. Some departments are great at providing good tools and good life-work balance. Some departments will completely disregard any input and work you ragged. Overall benefits have gone down lately so they're about average."

"Stable company and a well-known name in the industry. The pay is a bit below average, and yearly raises barely keep up with inflation.Good area to raise a family with a lost cost of living, but certainly not suitable for single or young professionals.Hard to move up unless you join the inner circle."

"Not happy with current position."

"The first manager was good, second (new) manager has no idea."

What do you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"Rockwell in Afghanistan is an ok company, but they pay at the low end, and the managers from the local to the regional are really quite terrible."

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

"Good luck with the job, counter offer their salary (they're desperate for people here)."

What don't you like about working at Rockwell Collins?

"The managers have absolutely no idea how their decisions affect morale, and they do not practice what they preach in regards to conduct."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do what you expect others to do. If you do not, we lose all respect for you."