PACCAR reviews

Fixed schedule. The company's culture ensures that any responsible employee would feel guilty going to a doctor appointment or stay home to care for a sick kid. No way to work from home. You can say you're working from home, and the reality is that nobody would believe you actually worked. The infrastructure doesn't really support it, and management doesn't encourage it. Suit and tie every single day, including Friday. The chairman does watch the dress code closely. Sometimes memos go out in the summer time to remind ladies not to wear certain shoes, and nylons are required. Many more silly rules!

Management seems oblivious to the fact when the market turns down they cut staff and hours, but NEVER project scope nor work load. In fact if the market turns down management cuts engineering staff, and they accept any order the sales teams can snag, even orders that require 100's of engineering hours to figure out. Since they layoff all drafting support, engineers end up working 55+ hours a week to meet deadlines. Deadlines in jeopardy - your manager will harass you till you get that task done, knowing full well the screaming manager will return next week. Manager will move from Engineer to Engineer reminding him the deadlines can't slip. Can you say Office Space TPS report? Endless "Recovery" plans to figure out how to keep the projects on schedule. Plan's always involve "Free Overtime Engineering" to do the work mainly because management is oblivious to what it actually takes to design their product. IC goals given from Mark Pigott to his minions make sure dumb decision are made throughout the year so they can get their IC bonuses. Reduce overhead and Engineering costs? Having Indian engineers from L&T now KPIT come over on H1B visa's? What the heck is our government doing with today's unemployment allowing drafters in? Like we have NO US workers able to run Pro-E? Are you serious? These Indian drafters are great, but how did PACCAR convince the government they could NOT find a single US drafter to run Pro-E? Why bring these low skilled Pro-E jocks in from Indian? I can see using CAD jocks in INDIA, but to allow them in the US under H1B, just plain wrong?