PACCAR reviews

Tech Center management is never able to say no to crackpot 'innovations' from Daf Tech Center only exists as data collection hub for Daf, the less technical input you have to the functions the better Never any opportunity to do things the right way, only the DAF way. As a result PTC ends up being responsible when dead end Daf projects inevitably fail on North American trucks Customer always comes last after management plays politics in order to ensure their own bonus checks are maintained by misrepresenting project status and dreaming up positive metrics Worker to manager ratio is around 2-to-1 Benchmarking activities exist only to delude senior management as to the superiority of paccar products Daf continuously removes access to failure reporting systems to ensure their metrics are kept positive, and failures go ignored or unreported development is pulled from one shiny thing to the next as chairman spots various things on competitor vehicles that paccar doesn't offer (and there are many) - team is then given 1/10 the time required to properly develop the feature Management team never met a deadline they couldn't shorten to absurdity Bottom line, don't work here if you're looking to innovate or break new technical ground, or are interested in pursuing a career outside of management or accounting

Many of the managers constantly talk down to you, they're a few awesome ones, but they're far too many that are worthless and managers have nearly 100% job security, they never get fired or laid off. HR is worthless. if you complain about something you're going to be the first one gone during hard times. Recently they announced we can no longer save emails so when you have history with a project or a CYA (cover your a$$) email, those will all be gone. After 12 months they'll be auto-deleted. You move around often so when a new guy in your former position comes to ask about a project, you can no longer give them a good head start or advice where to begin.