DENSO reviews

Over worked. Zero work-life balance. Unclear direction. Hypocritical behavior as Top Management and HR preaches inclusion but ignores employee voices when it matters and worse yet, divides the associates. Case in point is the return to work policy change. Middle Management made hybrid work experiments over months in order to get the associate voice for the company to make the policy. In the end the data was never reviewed or considered as "the company made its own decision". Also, most of the industry worked with associates to create an adjustment period for personal life balance (3-6 months for most). Instead DENSO gave managers 2 weeks to reorganize personal life at the end of school year whereas non-managers received 6 weeks to prepare. All of this is in thanks for managers who over the pandemic created remote work systems because the company didn't and managers who gave up bonus amounts to help the company give higher bonuses to associates. This used to be a place that cared about its people and treated people as the most valuable resource. Now it is a company that has turned its back on middle management level and appears to be passively-aggressively frustrating associates to have them quit. Sounds like a recipe for a company failing fast.

-Random chance that you will actually be doing the work you were told you would be doing during your interview. I never did true design work my entire time there and was told that was intentional. -Culture is based around the concept of 'work til the work is done.' Done, in this case, is very ill defined, has many moving targets, and frequently changes at the whim of those in higher positions. 10+ hour days are typical, frequently stretching to 12. -Environment is very toxic and borders on hostile too often. When mistakes are made, the first reaction is almost always along the lines of "How did you make that mistake" and said with a tone of "You're an idiot". It is also common to be blamed for things that occurred before you were even at the company. -Lack of trust. Management as a whole likes to micro-manage everything to an unhealthy degree. They constantly want to review everything incrementally rather than trusting you to finish something, then submit it for review. When you give them something to review that was 'oh so urgent' an hour ago, they will frequently say 'oh, I don't have time to get to that today, but I'll do it tomorrow.' This drives further delays because they don't want you to use your time wisely and keep working on it. This attitude extends all the way up the management chain and causes massive delays to projects because absolutely everything must be reviewed by each level of management, and any one individual can stall a project because they feel like it. -They have no concept of Work-Life balance, and zero regard for the overall well being of their employees. -Not environmentally friendly. This place has an unhealthy addition to printing everything. Virtually nothing is done digitally and in many cases, management will demand that something be printed out just for them to look at one small thing. Overall, unless you are a mindless robot with no ambition to do anything with your life other than work in a hazardous environment, then avoid this place.