It's just ok, but improving. More geared towards hourly employees.. - Engineer PACCAR Employee Review

3.0
Feb 5, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

One if the last automotive manufacturers in Australia. Manageable workload.

Cons

Promotions are not based on skill or demonstrated experience. Having family or personal ties with management is enough to get ahead. Processes and policies are applied and interpreted differently in different situations, generally in favour of the hegemony; which is white dominant male, however there is now an artificially induced push for female empowerment, but this just extends to attractive white females. Skills and demonstrated experience are still irrelevant in the eyes of the hiring manager.

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

Good learning environment for engineering

Cons

Projects can be slow at times

1.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
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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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