PACCAR reviews

The company uniform is the same dress as Walmart employees. Pay increases used to be every 18 months but have been extended to every 24 months. Pay increases are biased towards seniority rather than performance. Senior employees believe they are entitled to everything because of their 15 to 40 years with the company. There are no consequences for senior employees who take negative action towards the company. There is more effort put into maintaining tradition than to making improvements. They like 6 Sigma but the projects they do contain no real improvements (used for recognition only). Absolutely no leadership on any level. Managers "preside" over their area of responsibility. They like to move people around so you may end up working for a manager who has no experience in your field/discipline. This company tends to favor employees from purchasing & accounting and those from the corporate office when it comes to promotions. Lots of issues around ethics. The mandate by plant management is for employees to falsify plant data so efficiency metrics submitted to corporate meet their goal. Our GM likes to hire his friends/neighbors that due substandard work for the facilities. He also likes to do direct hires of friends/neighbors into positions. The "Chairman" really is crazy(reference other postings on employee facial hair). If you approve of the CEO that only means that you have never met or dealt with him. You will never find anyone as arrogant. Lots of "smoke & mirrors" on what the CEO specifically tells the plants to do and what they actually do.

Hands down, the most stale and boring place I've ever worked. Company-wide executive emails are still typed in ALL CAPS. Arrogant management. I mean, we're talking automobile parts here people. Personal email like hotmail, facebook or gmail is blocked. So cheap that management endlessly debates basic IT infrastructure investments - this mentality explains why consultants have to be brought in to try to do anything innovative. Laughable intranet and internal sites. Employees have to pay for plastic forks and spoons in cafeteria if they don't buy food. Out of touch with current industry best practices - middle management is more concerned with being able to check a box to claim a task was completed, versus doing it the right way. Worse than the federal management in terms of innovation or information sharing between groups/departments. They really should just send ITD to India like Sr. Management really wants to do, but office politics continue to drag this out. Non-IT Employees are required to wear a badge they paid for through an annual charity event in order to wear jeans. Below average pay and benefits versus industry/region.