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Nexteer Automotive reviews

3.5

68% would recommend to a friend

(628 total reviews)
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Guibin Zhao

56% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Nexteer Automotive has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 628 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nexteer Automotive 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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628 reviews
2.0
Oct 14, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Very friendly employees allow great relationships within the department. It's a great place if you are looking to be able to work with friends. Pay is good.

Cons

There is a lot of stress on "if you aren't working 60 to 70 hours per week, you don't care about your job". Terrible place to work if you have a family or wish to get home at a decent hour. Managers and supervisors don't have your back and will throw you to the wolves with the customers. I've witnessed a decent amount of snakey tactics from program managers like lying about deadlines to get more work out of people or playing one employee against another to get weekend work. Forget vacations or time off, you will be called or emailed or IMed or all three.

5.0
Dec 8, 2016

1

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The culture and people are really good. It feels good to go to work

Cons

People are leaving very often to higher paying jobs. It's generally understood to get a raise you need to get an offer somewhere else.

2.0
Oct 13, 2016

Saginaw location will eventually close down

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Vacation and Holiday time off are above average

Cons

Nexteer was originally a GM Plant, then owned by Delphi, back to GM and finally purchased by a Chinese plant. Up until 2013 (when they were purchased by a Chinese company) they were pretty much ignored by their owners (GM/Delphi), as long as their customers were receiving their shipments, Nexteer was able to stay below the radar. They were a mere line item on the balance sheet and being owned by GM and Delphi meant they had a pretty stable flow of cash and financing when needed. That all changed in 2013. Suddenly they were faced with the reality that in the 30+ years of staying under the radar the manufacturing sector had grown up around them. Around the world we have seen manufacturing company's respond to the changing times by upgrading their facilities, keeping current with new technology (in terms of support services like Engineering, Sales, Finance, etc.), incorporating a culture of continuous improvement and driving a vision centered around communication and knowledge sharing. Meanwhile, Nexteer (GM/Delphi) was going along the way it had been for decades. Their systems were rarely upgraded, there was no attempt at any point to standardize processes from plant to plant (neither in a production sense or support services), what processes did exist were not written down, instead held in the knowledge of the person doing the job so that when that person left all the knowledge went with them. the Quality systems were nearly non-existent, ideas and best practices were not shared (not sharing = job security). That kind of business would normally see their doors close pretty quick, not necessarily when you have a mothership paying the bills and not really caring what's going on in this little plant (relatively) out in tim-buck-2.

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