great short-term opportunity if you gaining experience for the next role - Interpreter Honda R&D Employee Review

3.0
Aug 6, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-Above average salary - Great opportunity for automotive lovers

Cons

- Japanese work culture (barely greeting, talking just work) - Can barely find work-life balance - Most people quit after 2-3 years because of the deadline - Abysmal language & communication skills - Lack of employee inclusion - Unfair treatment between Japanese & local employees - Despite being an R&D this place failed to promote employee's creativity to develop new ideas in the new models but rather stick to the traditional way of development from their playbook

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5.0
Jun 10, 2020
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Pros

Great work for an intern, learned a lot

Cons

Not particularly organized intern program

2.0
Jan 3, 2022
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Pros

Vacation policy is ok - you can turn overtime into PtO

Cons

- Terrible Pay: You shouldn’t hustle through engineering school to only earn $60k - Management: Many old narcissistic managers that are not open or receptive to new ways of doing things. I never met a single manager in their 20s. - Company Culture: years working for the company takes presidency over actual engineering ability. You can be the next Steve Jobs or just do the bare minimum - regardless, no one is going to promote you faster for your engineering ability. - Japanese Terminology: used for EVERYTHING AND ITS ANNOYING. Get used to acronyms, schedules, design reviews - basically everything having a Japanese word you will have to memorize. - Paper Pushing: so much unnecessary paperwork meant to keep you busy. This becomes very frustrating because it’s hard to change the company from within when you constantly have paperwork to do. - Location: in the middle of nowhere. Forget about biking to work or doing something fun on your lunch. Also if you want to live in Columbus be prepared for a 45min to 1 hour commute. That’s 1.5-2 hours commuting a day 😬 If you’re ok getting paid Pennies to out your with all the above then take the job. Most people say Sayonara after 3 years when they realize other companies will pay 2x for the same job

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