Best of both worlds, location and fulfilling work - Anonymous employee PACCAR Employee Review

4.0
31 Mar 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The Technical Center is filled with capable people who are happy to share their knowledge with you. If you enjoy engineering, testing, and product development this is the place for you. There are not many jobs in this area that offer this type of employment which is why some employees drive over 100 miles daily. We are constantly expanding and have a great culture. There are many team building opportunities in and out of work.

Cons

The company is "old school" in many ways. Employees at corporate are required to wear suits etc. It seems everyone is petrified of senior management, ridiculous measures are taken when they visit which and everyone is expected to pretty much hide. At previous companies, you were encouraged to engage senior management and there was always a Q and A. Some of the software and processes are very antiquated. A look at the internal websites etc will remind you how old school the company is.

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Pros

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Cons

They blindly follow industry trends not industry standards. We have an initiative to use AI to increase productivity, without a proper plan, without security in mind and lack of general understanding. Consistently understaffed, for example there are teams or parts if teams that have max 4 developer type roles with 36 apps or APIs to support - this has lead to inconsistent code and effort as employees are spread too thin to be able to deliver quality work. Management refuses to take responsibility for issues that arise from being understaffed. Teams are not consistent in what tools and pipelines are used causing even more confusion and delays. Double standards: they don't want to properly promote or give raises to hard workers. Upper management made it clear to direct managers that "meets expectations" was a fine thing to give... To employees doing more than their fair share of work and are doing work outside of their role since they have no one else to do it do to being understaffed.

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