The truth laid bare - Career suicide - Anonymous employee JATO Dynamics Employee Review

1.0
26 Apr 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance is good If you are interested in automotive you will enjoy the work

Cons

If you use Glassdoor reviews to choose a prospective employer, then this is the one, honest review that describes Jato best. Here are just some of the cons: There are no opportunities in Jato for professional growth. There are no opportunities to learn anything new or useful. There are no opportunities to develop your career. There is no career path. There is no natural progression. The same people have been working in the same jobs for 20+ years. There are no promotions or opportunities. Jato have fired multiple employees, across the globe in the last 6 months without warning and have replaced those employees with employees from countries such as Czechia, Greece, and Portugal, where wages are low. Clearly the business plan is to replace the current workforce with as much cheap labour as possible. Recently Jato have actively pushed employees to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor in a embarrassing bid to improve the company's overall rating. Notice the number of 5 star reviews in the past 6 months. Jato actively push employees to give better ratings on internal staff satisfaction surveys. They believe if the ratings are low then it's the employees fault, when it's actually the company that needs to change. Your true opinion does not matter. They just want you to improve the figures. Jato have paid no salary increases for the past 2 years. Meanwhile inflation is at an all time high. The most recent annual bonus was 2%. Pathetic. From what I have seen, nobody has ever realised their full potential while working in Jato, and sadly, I doubt anyone ever will. This is a broken company under it's current ownership and managment.

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JATO Dynamics Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We are pleased to hear that you appreciate and recognise that JATO offers a work life balance combined with the opportunity to work in a field that you are interested in. We are sorry to hear that your recent experience hasn’t been a positive one. We take note of your feedback very seriously and we would highly encourage you to speak with the Head of HR to discuss further. The HR Team

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Pros

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Cons

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JATO Dynamics Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re delighted to hear that you enjoyed the work environment and office location, and that your overall experience with JATO Dynamics was a positive one. Creating a supportive and engaging workplace is something we truly value. It’s also great to see that you would recommend JATO Dynamics. Thank you again for your feedback and for your contribution to JATO Dynamics.
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Pros

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Cons

*Personnel: The same personnel retain their roles year-in and year-out which has led to poor decision-making, lack of new ideas and innovation and an overall stagnated work force. *Product: Since it's privately-owned, there are only minor investments made which pale in comparison to the competitors. In addition, new product and innovation suffer greatly. There hasn't been a new, revenue-generating product in years. *Compensation: every year commission and bonus changed especially with declining commercial performance (mostly tied to lack of investment in technology and product).  *Leadership: during my 4-6 years there, JATO went thru as many CEOs. The owner is very old school in thinking and creates an environment where it's difficult to challenge him and/or his cronies (also old school and not up-to-date on current business environment/realities).

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