Takata Reviews

I have been working at Takata

Pros – Great work environment with great people. Organization is structured into teams, and you know when you get into a good one. The work is rewarding. Career growth opportunities are available.

Cons – Demanding work in the automotive industry. Long hours, tight deadlines, and navigating through corporate layers is challenging. As a Japanese company, communication with corporate entities across an ocean with a 13 hour time different can be a headache.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus energy on product quality and R&D.

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

I have been working at Takata full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great co-workers. Great feeling that I am saving lives by making safety restraints. I feel I am well compensated, although healthcare costs keep going up. good 401(k) match, auto discounts, flexible work hours, etc...

Cons – Long hours when launching a new product. Travel to Mexico sometimes needed.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate more

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

I worked at Takata

Pros – People are Genuine. Better work culture.

Cons – Appointment processing is very slow.

I worked at Takata full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good culture and people to work with

Cons – Low comparative pay with other companies

Advice to Senior Management – More structured career path

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Takata full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Free food in the break room.

Cons – Incompetent workforce that is widespread and widely acceptable.
Lack of accountability, professionalism, and resources in every group.
Low morale and extremely dissatisfied, unhappy employees.
Massive recall of ~3.1 million airbags resulting in a loss of $307M. Google it. Investors beware.
Lack of innovation, inventions, goals. Clock in, clock out, non-competitive, unsustainable environment.
Poor performing plants, plant management, and senior management.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to put your relatives on the payroll.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Takata full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Are there any?
They dont provide anything better than any other place....they strive to be below average, but you better not!

Cons – Long hours and still low pay. Takata has some MAJOR catching up to do to be even close to on par with many other places. It will take YEARS at the rate things are going.
People are still bailing as fast as they can to escape the plague that becomes this place, and it's been two years now.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop promoting people just because they have worked at the company for many years. If they were actually any good, they would be GONE, but instead they become the new untalented and lazy leadership that trains the new hires. Someone needs to hit the reset button at this place!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Takata full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Free coffee and tea.
If you ever get promoted to director level, you may taste some good benefit at last but promotion rarely happens to right people.

Cons – Depends on what department you work in, but people in some departments are really miserably working - especially operation and quality. Working overtime and weekend becomes norm, but no rewards.
There are too many departments in this company. Too many unknown departments (and their team names are confusing), too many directors and too many managers. I'm sure many actual employees don't know what other departments are doing.
No matter what department you work in, short resource is always an issue. Company can't hire new people because of no budget. Good performers leave as soon as they find a better job. Farewell emails also become norm. Company can't afford hiring new ones, so existing ones (except managers/directors/executives) always suffer too much workload. Managers think anybody is replaceable so they don't treat you right here.
Obviously company is not doing well and doesn't seem to get any better (actually getting worse and worse every day).
"Quality First" is such a joke. Very dishonest to not only employees but also customers and consumers who actually drive cars."Sinking ship" is really true to this company.

Advice to Senior Management – None. They won't change no matter what.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Takata full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Free parking.
Free but really bad coffee.
Free cheap tea.

Cons – All of the relatives of the upper management work for the company.
Upper management would rather spend lots of money on unreliable printers than on the employees.
Upper management would rather spend lots of money on renovating the main conference room over and over again than giving pay raises and bonuses to deserving employees.
Upper management would rather hire cheap labor then spend lots of money on travels to fix quality issues.
Upper management loves to spend lots of money on boondoggle trips.
The FBI raided the office one time.
There is little to no R&D/core. Most of the engineers in Core left.
Only dummies work here.

Advice to Senior Management – None. The management can't be rescued.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Takata full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There is free food in the break room sometimes.

Cons – Upper management is out of touch.
Pay is low. The company cannot compete.
The good engineers leave the company quickly. Farewell emails are constant. Every week, there is at least one (or two) engineer who leaves.
Only the junky ones stay. The caliber of the engineers is very low overall.
Even the interns and co-ops do not want to work here. Almost all do not return. They make the wage of a Wal-Mart employee.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your employees by paying them at least at the average industry level so you can reap dividends later. Cut the bureaucracy and reduce the amount of paperwork/grunt work for your engineers. Don't ignore the low morale and job dissatisfaction of your employees. Focus on innovation, technology, actual design work. Else, just a matter of time that you will go under.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Takata full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – I'll say that it has definitely had its fun moments while working here.

The re-instated 401K match is nice.

Raises are usually yearly as long as you know the people to push to get it.

Cons – The yearly compensation that is supposed to increase to keep up with inflation is a joke. It is usually enough to purchase an extra 6 pack each month in a hope of drowning away the thoughts of how under paid and underappreciated you are.

The management structure and communication is a sick and sad joke all in its own. You say your restructuring all you want but if all you’re doing is putting makeup on the pig...guess what...it's still a pig. The amount of time that it takes anyone to make any real decisions in management will one day be the down fall of this company.

You want training? Don't look here! Empty promises for training have become the norm for what I have heard.

There were positions where skilled IT techs and engineers were reduced in labor size during the recession but since everything has come back and their busier than they were before. Sadly there are still only a hand full of people to do these positions and they refuse to add anymore into them. And they wonder why a person would leave after two months of doing the job of what should have been pushed out to two or three people.

Little has changed since the rest of the reviews of Takata...Hopefully one day they will learn...but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Advice to Senior Management – Remove the curtain that you keep in place. It's like being in a plane where the 1st class passengers shut the curtain after everyone walks by them into 3rd class. After that you won't see them for the rest of the flight.

You’re a business and should make decisions a little faster than the speed of snail you’re doing right now.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend