RR is a Delphi infested British Bureaucracy. One Delphi employee who joined RR Purchasing in early 2000 has brought along most of his Delphi (the bankrupt automotive supplier) coworkers and they are now trying to "transform" RR with their track record and experience at Delphi!! The truth is that they get employee loyalty by hiring friends and that leads to political leverage in a highly dysfunctional political organization struggling to deliver results. This nepotism is rampant across the organization, and “buddies” are hired at all levels with no one held accountable. Psychology majors, Aramark food supervisors, priests and UPS store employees are all hired as supplier quality "engineers" and technical managers because HR is clueless and so is upper management - both of which are churned out every two years or so to add to the chaos. Learned helplessness is very prevalent and the system is 'you scratch my back and I scratch yours' and numbers and metrics are changed to hide true performance. RR's hiring philosophy is that 'a warm body is better than nobody', leading to incompetence at all levels. The company focuses on ‘good behavior’ to change culture, not realizing that skills and competency are fundamentally missing. RR struggles to retain & promote talent. Salary and benefits are sub-par and so is the work environment. Management has a 'naked king' approach to leading, favoring only the people who butter up and fake a positive appearance, get facials and wear ties for routine meetings only to keep their mouth shut since they have no relevant knowledge, experience or intelligence. I got a 35 % raise when I quit RR, leaving Rolls-Royce has been the best decision of my career.
