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Harley-Davidson, Inc.

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Harley-Davidson, Inc. reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,446 total reviews)
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Artie Starrs

54% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Harley-Davidson, Inc. has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,446 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Harley-Davidson, Inc. employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Sep 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Paid time off is pretty good. 3 weeks vacation when you start. 4 weeks vacation after five years. There is a winter shutdown each year, which is about 1.5 weeks (so you can be home when kids are on winter break). Discount on motorcycles and merchandise. Casual workplace. Opportunities for training. Pay seems pretty decent for my job category in this area. If you like motorcycles, obviously this is the place to be. Sometimes you can get involved with events.

Cons

Some pockets within the company suck (such as mine). Some really great leaders have been removed from the company during the layoffs or have just moved on. Seems that they are looking for leaders that grind people down to get 'results', rather than appreciating inspirational leaders that build people up. They seem to value leaders who run the business like a machine. And while leadership 'talks about' how they care about the workers, there really are no warm fuzzies left anymore. The company had a great 'throwback' culture which was fun and interesting. Felt like family. But now it is just 'another company' with declining culture and evaporating benefits. They do a Q12 survey to see how well people are engaged, but they take the results into a backroom and try to mind-read what the workers want, rather than directly asking employees how to improve conditions. The company talks about everyone being a leader, but that seems to have become license for aggressive people to stomp on everyone else.

3.0
Sep 5, 2015

Manufacturing engineers

Recommend
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Pros

Fun projects, cool product, clean shop, good learning experience, excellent retirement plan, excellent medical and other benefits.

Cons

Stressful environment due to hostile union. Management was reluctant to address glaring abuse of the "system". Middle managers struggled to get support from upper management.

5.0
Sep 4, 2015

Love it here!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture and great environment. Love the relaxed dress code and office amenities. Bonuses pay out regularly and salaried employees start with 3 weeks of vacation + the holiday week shut down. Couldn't ask for a better place to work!

Cons

There are some antiquated tools, processes, and systems. Some business units run with very lean staff which can make for long hours etc. Behind the technology curve a bit in a few areas.

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