Ford Motor Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor

Pros – Diversity of people, respect for others

Cons – Recognition for performance & contribution

Advice to Senior Management – More focus / recognition for employee performance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor as a contractor for more than 7 years

Pros – Job security, the engineering team is friendly and committed, most people there want to do a good job, plenty of travel opportunities, a good understanding of work/life balance, ability to live in Melbourne.

Cons – Bureaucracy. The company is large which necessitates systems and processes to ensure that goals are met but the time spent attending to metrics and working with unwieldy, poorly designed systems is too great. Focus on cost which often overrides every other consideration becomes frustrating. Poorly designed offices with minimal natural light, outer suburb location.

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline the reporting out process, allow more time to do actual design and engineering and trust that the team is dedicated to engineering a great product. Inflationary pay increases are a bare-minimum and people get highly demotivated when salaries decrease in real terms. Performance related bonuses would help motivation. Where's your passion for exciting cars gone? Let's not become another Toyota...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Interesting to see and feel your work after 3-4 years.

Cons – Worst culture, all work is hughly under manned (hence workload is un manageable), no innovation at all is allowed. The processes prevent you from achieving meaningful results, even if you are driven to get things done, managers miss the point of why the engineers are there. Only way to be a manager of a small team is to stay for 10-12 years.

Advice to Senior Management – See cons.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Good and friendly environment at the office.

Cons – Weak management so no clear future plans for new projects...

Advice to Senior Management – Be more clear and honest about future programs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Excellent engineering processes
Colleagues are passionate about the products they design and engineer (most are, anyway)
Global company, job variety, cultural diversity
Great engineering facilities
Strong focus on quality improvement

Cons – So many different engineering processes to track or follow takes up a lot of the engineering time.
US-centric development processes and targets can miss the mark in other regions
You have to love the job because hours are long and pay is low w.r.t. other engineering jobs
Low quality work environment
Chaotic approach to cost reduction

Advice to Senior Management – Show passion and enthusiasm for the work your teams do. Encourage cooperation between departments. Seek to simplify processes and communication channels.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Well structured business procedures and highly experienced management team. Overall a very buttoned-down organization with great IT group and facilities. Location in Oakville, ON is also a plus.

Cons – Decision making power lies in the US, all support services are out-sourced to the US or india. Skeleton workforce is maintained to keep business running in Canada. As a result few employees are excited about their work and work-life balance is a constant difficulty.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Ford Motor

Pros – Nice to be a part of a very complicated car building process

Cons – Comparing to other employers, level of skills and experience of Ford employees is low, so was mine

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor

Pros – ONE Team, ONE Plan, ONE Goal

Cons – not a single con to report

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people, strong commitment to communities around the world, wide breadth of career opportunities, challenges on a scale you won't find in smaller organizations.

Cons – Highly risk averse culture and tendency for hierarchical buy-in requires more time and persistence to get things done. You have to have an appreciation for this to avoid frustration and burn out.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue the cultural transformation that Alan started, and embrace the changes required to be a growing business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ford Motor full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Ford is a very good company to work for. They do try and work with you to make your job easier

Cons – As a customer service manager for 6 yrs with the company, i think the pay could be higher for what i do and the perks could b better like after working there for 5 plus yrs we should get Ford holidays and get the option to work from home.

Advice to Senior Management – They need to just listen more to the people on the front lines with the customers, we hear the customers and work with them on a daily basis and can add great input to what would assist with customer service

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company