Where do I begin? It is mandatory to work overtime everyday, (9+ hours) and even have to work on weekends if you're in Manufacturing, QA, QC, Micro, and Warehouse. You are constantly sitting in and out of meetings most of the week- there is a mandatory morning and afternoon meeting everyday, which tend to go over 30 mins and are counterproductive when there are too many priorities to tackle. Procurement management has no SAP system to log and track their material quantities accurately, therefore missing deadlines for production. The schedule is always changing because of this, and there is this continuous fire to be put out for unready materials. Supply Chain and QA go back and forth and production is always delayed (this is the norm) because materials aren't ordered in time for sufficient amount of testing required and review for release from QA. You are stuck running around chasing folders (yes paper folders) because there is no legitimate tracker or EDC to house production information. You can have all the trackers you want, but there's still no efficient way to capture all the data and information you need until they purchase and implement a better system.
Be prepared to get called out in the morning meetings from upper management; You will need to "have a path-forward", or "stay internally aligned" and will "have the ball", and if you don't, then you will be reprimanded and chewed out because production won't happen this Weds. But wait, when you put all your hard work and effort to getting materials ready but the schedule changes again!
Some areas of management will lie and manipulate their employees to scare them, and you will be back-stabbed and thrown under the bus if you don't have your facts ready.
Employees are overworked and overburdened. There are a few hardworking people who you can always rely on for help, even when they're in a different department. The newer and younger employees come in with bright, hard-working faces, only to be disappointed and stressed out a couple months down the road. The work/life balance is essentially non-existent. Managers don't care if you or your kids are sick, if you have a cell phone they will contact you and at any point of the day (or night). I've had calls at 2am after being out on a Saturday night.
Also on a sidenote, if you do decide to work here, people will gossip. Especially in QA, there are a couple of people who will badmouth you if you don't fit into their social schema.
