Toyota is a great place to work if you want to retire....not if you want to grow - Virtual User Engineer Toyota North America Employee Review

3.0
Aug 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Toyota has some of the best benefits I have ever seen at a company. The lease car alone is a huge plus and managers and above get a stipend for a lease car. This essentially allows for a free car for managers and above. I have the most expensive medical plan and it costs me roughly $75 a month. I am single with no dependents. Retirement plan is pretty decent. Not the best but still good. The people at Toyota truly do care about the company. They want to see it succeed. Management have an loyalty to the company that I have not seen anywhere else. Mostly this works out for good. What Toyota is doing as a whole company is pretty inspiring . When you see Akio talking about mobility it is exciting. The company as a whole is doing some very interesting things with mobility and connected world. Toyota does amazing things for the community. The partnerships they have with community and the sheer number of volunteer opportunities is the best I have ever seen from a company. People inside Toyota care about making a difference in the community and it is built into the culture. Also the business partnering groups are diverse and give employees other opportunities to use their talents.

Cons

Toyota is not a good place to be innovative. They talk about it all the time but everything is marred in red tape. The bureaucracy and politics at Toyota are the absolute worst I have ever seen. I work in the IT department and in order to get a basic server it takes at least 4 approvals and then about a 2 weeks to work itself through the system. The discussions of SCRUM and Agile are all talk. They have just changed the names and do the same type of workflow. The largest complaint is that team members are unable to properly do their jobs because all of the IT operations are outsourced to a third party company. Toyota is extremely, extremely siloed. If you are a technical person who wants to be hands on then I would highly recommend not applying at Toyota. Team member positions are mostly glorified project managers. You will just be managing projects and give requirements to other teams to do the job that more than likely you can do yourself but cannot do because they will not give you access.

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Toyota North America Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience here. We're happy to hear you find our culture of doing what's right and our vision for the future of mobility inspiring. Innovation is embedded in our culture and has allowed us to bring great inventions to market like the Prius and hydrogen-fueled Mirai. Our journey to becoming a mobility company has just begun, and we believe that everyone has an opportunity to make an impact and play a part in bringing that vision to life through their work at Toyota. We count on our team members to take innovative approaches in their own work and are working hard to make sure we continually improve. We're committed to our vision for the future, and your ongoing feedback can help us do that.

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