Good company only if you want to chill out and take home a salary - Senior Data Engineer JLR Employee Review

2.0
5 Jul 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You can work at your own pace and just push deadlines back.

Cons

1) Pay is terrible. 2) You have to deal with a lot of managers. JLR loves a good management structure. 3) Very political environment. Not meritocratic. "Sorry we can't give you this job because there are 5 other people waiting in line" 4) You've contributed? There are no KPIs to measure your contribution by. End of year reviews depend entirely on how aware you've made your manager of your work and how important the projects you were assign to were relative to his priorities over the year. 5) Virtually no company organized social events. 6) Inconsistent values. The core department want to establish good data engineering practices which are completely ignored as soon as you go out into your project team. Project managers only care about how fast things are done. 7) Ever changing without purpose. Because there are so many managers they constantly talk amongst themselves and keep changing the structure of the teams and the projects to "make them better" when in reality it's just change for the sake of change because there are no metrics to check improvements by.

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5.0
9 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Amazing work culture and work life balance - As a designer the world is your oyster of how you want to grow and develop - Manager is amazing at communicating your needs and empathizing with you - Everyone is driven to be a better designer and so much support from everyone

Cons

- Having to work sometimes really early or nighttime due to time zone differences with some of the people we work with - Projects & goals sometimes have to change in the week to better fit business needs and team goals.

4.0
20 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great work life balance Supportive environment

Cons

If you fall in the less than 3 years experience bucket, your best shot is the new graduate positions which have terrible pay and full-time employment after 2-years is not guaranteed.

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