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      PACCAR

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      PACCAR reviews

      3.7

      63% would recommend to a friend

      (1,041 total reviews)
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      Preston Feight

      72% approve of CEO

      52% positive business outlook

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      PACCAR has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,041 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PACCAR 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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      1.0
      Feb 28, 2014

      WOW - my beard got me escorted to my manager's office. I shaved, first time I've cried in 10 years.

      Design engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      They have a 5% 401K program (paid at the end of the year) They make a profit every quarter

      Cons

      Unpublished grooming code - actually a quibble that the CEO has against facial hair and his fearful minions falling over themselves to enforce the CEO's draconian anti-facial hair policy. Multiple people I've known for years got sent home to shave. Some resorted to getting medical or religious exemptions so they could return to work. Although these exemptions were accepted they are currently being reviewed by the PACCAR legal department, leaving great engineers in fear of termination. The company above all else values utter compliance with any request by the CEO, no matter how ill-conceived. For example: The KW division cafe got a remodel after the CEO got mustard on his tie getting salad. In 2010 the CEO banned employees from using the KW division cafe when senior management meetings were held there. The KW Renton plant cafe is closed except for very certain times because the CEO didn't like workers buying food except during scheduled breaks. ITD personnel have been told to keep formal dress cloths at their desks and to change into them when the front desk reports the CEO is visiting. The CEO could see PACCAR Corporate employees walking to a Starbucks, and banned them from going their outside of their lunch break. The CEO bans anyone from parking in the front row of parking lots.

      2.0
      Feb 28, 2014

      Getting Worse by the day

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You don't have to pay to park at most of the facilities. Stable stock returns. Decent benefits and pension. Co-workers are fun

      Cons

      Ultra conservative. Poor leadership. Live in fear. Dress code from the 60s. Limited flexibility and good ole boy network. Females are definitely at the bottom.

      2.0
      Feb 28, 2014

      This place has great individuals who try to make up for a management culture that is 100 years old.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      PACCAR offers employment stability and the chance to work with beautiful product and some very dedicated individuals. Those individuals often put in superhuman effort to get a good product to the customer. The retirement benefits are great. PACCAR is consistently profitable.

      Cons

      When you are consistently profitable, a 4th generation ex CEO, but still Chairman of the Board could start to believe he can't do anything wrong. You might implement a no facial hair policy. It sounds unreal, but forty people were pulled into executive offices and told they had to go home to shave the beards, mustaches, and goatees. People who had beards for 30 years had to lose them or fear for their job. Very few execs had the power/guts to not implement the policy. This culture of fear can also be seen in technical product shortcomings being swept under the rug. As an executive, why bring something unpleasant up when you could lose your bonus or job? By the time the shortcoming hits sales, you can have a few more years of employment and bonuses. What better way to create fear in your executive ranks than to publically dress down a demoted executive in front of employees during a division wide meeting for non performance? Accounts are king/queen here for better and for worse. Quarterly profit is all important. Short term savings are often achieved at a long term cost.

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