JLR Graduate Product Development Engineer reviews

Getting on/off site can take a considerable chunk out of the day. This coupled with the early starts can impact work life balance especially when needing to stay over. Overtime has to be arranged a week in advance unless it can be approved as an exceptional circumstance which is silly and should depend on the requirements of the day rather than knowing a week in advance what projects will need to be worked on out of hours. Inconsistent level of support from management with some team managers being great but other not so supportive of your career and only interested in getting their jobs done. Not a lot of opportunities to experience the vehicles for some teams. Finally I feel the culture in some offices at Gaydon and Whitley has caused the pace of work to be very slow and there is a lot of room for improvement here.

Didn't consider matching my best skills to a suitable job role leaving frustrated in a job that I don't want to do. The traffic onsite and offsite is appalling. Departments don't work together at all. Work is not remotely stimulating, lots of menial tasks and repeating work that has already been done. Seems to be an expectation from some people that you should be grateful to work longer than contracted for.