The company culture filters down from the top. There is no regard for professional development, departmental culture, ethics, and morale. Furthermore, in regards to ethics there is a strong encouragement (without being spoken aloud) to disregard occupational safety and hazards in the name of speed and hitting imaginary deadlines. Extremely, extremely toxic.
This company has a LOT of dead weight. There is typically 5 people pointing their fingers for 1 person to execute. A lot of meeting schedulers and deadlines pushers with a very small workforce to execute. There are no metrics or KPI’s either, which make it very tough to see who is actually screwing up or providing value. The lack of KPI’s and performance metrics allows for full blown nepotism and favoritism when it comes to promotions. I hate saying this, but it’s obvious that race plays a factor into performance reviews and promotions. Plenty of evidence of this. This factory needs to do a full overhaul and strip down of the lopsided resources and dead weight throughout factory engineering.
Professional development is actively disregarded. If you want your manager to approve a training or engineering conference to go attend, good luck. It will not be approved. You are looked at as a short term asset. Why invest any overhead in training the engineers. Again, this is a company culture issue and can easily be addressed, but hasn’t been addressed.
Partially why this probably hasn’t been addressed is due to the constant turnover in leadership positions. They either get fired or quit due to all the distinction. This instability with leadership positions is crippling for making any sustainable improvements.
Finally, the office environment and parking is a total joke. Be prepared for 40-50 minutes of riding on a bus everyday just to get to and from the office. The desks are literally shoulder to shoulder and it’s so loud that you can barely hear yourself think. There’s literally 2000 people sitting in a fully open floor office, so it’s like the biggest telemarketing layout in the world. You have to wait in line to use the restroom. The food is insanely expensive (15$ per lunch), and there’s no room in the shared refrigerators if you want to bring a lunch. If you want a DYSTOPIAN office environment, this is your dream situation. Use this job as a trampoline for better job opportunities. Short term mindset. If you approach this job like that, then it’s doable for a year or two.
