Reactive and conservative company that cannot seem to get on track - Anonymous employee Honda Employee Review

2.0
Jul 15, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Honda Engineering has an excellent benefit package that is unmatched in the region. Opportunity to travel to Japan and other regions in the US.

Cons

There is nothing Engineering about this company, innovation and Honda Engineering do not go hand-in-hand. Engineering methods and checks are outdated and are irrelevant due to the poor culture of not doing PDCA or checking if the final design matches design intention. Design mistakes are always repeated due to what I mentioned before. Engineers are just there to put out fires, the jobs are very unsatisfying and there is mayor discontent among engineers. Executive and Senior Management beg for new ideas, but yet they do not open the channels of communications for engineers to suggest them and the few new ideas that they allow have to be reviewed in countless and unnecessary review meetings. The workload in this place is unreal, it is up to you to halfway finish the hottest items and miss out on your personal life or miss some deadlines and get to see your family for a bit every day. Either way you will be look down upon. Getting promoted in this place if a real joke, you get a minor salary increase and loose your overtime. Yet, they will assign you to more work.

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

The best company I’ve ever worked for hands down. Alabama really is behind the times on pay and benefits in my experience. Honda in Alabama is an exception to that rule. We work a lot of hours, especially in my role, but that’s great for me personally. One of the best work environments I’ve worked in (AC in plant), great cafeteria, etc. There’s even a free gym down the street for employees. Besides the great pay, great pay progression, and plenty of overtime, this company goes above and beyond to provide great insurance, 401k, production based bonuses, 2 scheduled shutdowns per year, and pto. More than that, the culture at Honda is centered on building up the associates in any way possible. I’ve genuinely never worked for a company like this, and hope they continue improving the culture they’ve created thus far.

Cons

Can be congested at times, there are a lot of people in there, but that’s just par for the course. Also, leaving and entering the parking lot is pretty wild sometimes.

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