A Mixed Bag - Manager PACCAR Employee Review

2.0
Apr 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Trucks are top quality. Benefits such as pension and 401k are excellent over the long run. There are many opportunities for advancement if you work hard, are a white male and your personality is a fit for the PACCAR culture.

Cons

Relationships are more important than competence, results or creativity. Benefits for regular employees are being eroded over time. Management is arrogant and deluded about what it's really like to work here. Smart employees have options and they are bailing on the company -- leaving behind a team of inexperienced managers who are leading inexperienced employees who generally lack creativity. Salaries are no longer competitive. The management team is almost entirely white, male, conservative and clean-shaven -- all others will feel uncomfortable and will have to walk on water to get promoted.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 15, 2026
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Pros

Not much, if you want a place that's okay with mediocrity, then welcome.

Cons

They blindly follow industry trends not industry standards. We have an initiative to use AI to increase productivity, without a proper plan, without security in mind and lack of general understanding. Consistently understaffed, for example there are teams or parts if teams that have max 4 developer type roles with 36 apps or APIs to support - this has lead to inconsistent code and effort as employees are spread too thin to be able to deliver quality work. Management refuses to take responsibility for issues that arise from being understaffed. Teams are not consistent in what tools and pipelines are used causing even more confusion and delays. Double standards: they don't want to properly promote or give raises to hard workers. Upper management made it clear to direct managers that "meets expectations" was a fine thing to give... To employees doing more than their fair share of work and are doing work outside of their role since they have no one else to do it do to being understaffed.

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