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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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55% 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
1.0
Jan 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Bikes, customers, history, casual dress code

Cons

Leadership, leadership, leadership, leadership, leadership. Simply, this company has terrible leadership. Over the last 5 or so years, they managed to fire, lay-off, drive away, humiliate, disappoint, demoralize, antagonize, insult and who knows what else to hundreds of very, very good people who are no longer with the company. Engineering leadership has been especially poor, from the Senior VP of product development, who is not even an engineer, to the VP, who created an environment that even he could not work in so he took a "voluntary" early retirement, incompetent managers, who should not be entrusted to manage professionals, and I could go on and on... Bottom line, if you are an engineer, do not expect a career at Harley-Davidson, as the company does not value good engineering, professionalism, and other values that come with it.

2.0
Jan 12, 2013

An Employer Who has Lost Heart

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They still have a good base pay and their benefits are OK. They still have a product that many people want. They still seem to want to keep the product as American made as possible.

Cons

In the 15+ years I have worked there I have taken $1.50 cut in benefits for very $1 raise in base pay. The benefits used to be great, but now, at best are OK, but declining. Senior management went from caring about employees to caring about themselves and the stock market. Morale is absolutely horrible from the lowest hourly to the middle management and salaried. Concern of quality of product is stll OK, but is lower than in the past. The place is just plain mismanaged in every aspect.

4.0
Jan 11, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-relaxed work environment -casual dress code -true passion for product

Cons

-strong focus on wall st causes outsourcing/contracting -old boy club

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