new management driving company into the ground - Engineering Technician PACCAR Employee Review

3.0
29 Jul 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome coworkers, you can move around the company easily, they provide tools (sometimes that's an issue), decent work life balance but not for everyone (depends on your role and manager), paid for my CDL, cafeteria on site.

Cons

Not high enough wages for the work you're doing and the cost of living here. Some managers are cancer to your career if you aren't overly buddy buddy with them. Some managers are outright unprofessional in their distaste in employees. HR does not care about legit complaints about coworker and managers who cross the line. HR is more in control than managers when it comes to your reviews. They only allow probably 5% of employees a "exceeds expectation" review. Everyone else gets "meets expectation" or worse. You can go WAY above and beyond but you will never get recognized for it. Most people there talk trash about technicians compared to engineers. The company laid off people even though they preach job security. The management at the top care more about their stock holders than they do their product quality or employees.

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5.0
30 May 2026
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Pros

Wonderful internship experience. I truly enjoyed every aspect of the internship, from the people and team culture to the meaningful projects and great location. It was an incredibly positive learning experience, and I would highly recommend working there.

Cons

While the business professional dress code may not be for everyone, I personally didn’t mind it and felt it contributed to the professional environment.

1.0
15 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Not much, if you want a place that's okay with mediocrity, then welcome.

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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