Harley-Davidson, Inc. reviews

The higher towards upper management you go, the more disconnected it gets from the people who love, ride and enjoy the products, and the more you feel like you're talking to someone from IBM. As an engineer, it’s really painful to have some bean counter override engine design choices in favor of cheaper less reliable options. Such as replacing Timken bearings with roller bearings on the fly wheels. HD had to work really hard to overcome the reliability stigma left over from the early AMF days. Now corporate is back to making terrible choices to increase profit margins on the bikes at the expense of very hard earned growth in public perception of durability.

Horrible senior leadership. Blame supervisors for all the problems and make them fix-it, even though the original problems were started by middle to upper management, Managers are completely out of touch with whats going on on the floor. Promotions are completely based on who you know. (probably no different then any other large company)