Won’t ever go back - Design Engineer Honda R&D Employee Review

2.0
Jan 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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5.0
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Pros

Great work for an intern, learned a lot

Cons

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4.0
Apr 30, 2015
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Recommend
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Pros

Very helpful people, very good company if you need OEM experience, Great place to learn for contractors, No need to worry about dressing or ironing yourself at home since you will have to wear uniforms at the facility irrespective of who you are, very good gym and recreation center, very good cafeteria, very good uniform service, The facility is too big that you will have to walk a lot(good form of exercise).

Cons

No time spent by associates in interacting life and other things apart from Honda business since everybody is busy and as soon as they are done with their job they leave home, Located in a remote place as the nearest restaurant is at least 20 miles far.

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