Associate Design Engineer - Anonymous employee PACCAR Employee Review

3.0
18 Oct 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent coworkers, interesting challenges at its core, opportunities to work with coworkers across both the United States and in Europe. Excellent pension for those who stay within the company for 5+ years. Solid 401k match. Decent health benefits.

Cons

Mediocre pay for the area. Most of the interesting content in the field is diluted by months of management overhead, weak communications between groups and divisions, and slow development cycles. Corporate culture is a bit of a throwback to earlier years - strict dress code, micromanagement in day-to-day tasks, and random unannounced visits from upper management who are disconnected from engineering a large majority of the time. Very high turnover for a engineering division of a mature company.

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5.0
30 May 2026
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Pros

Wonderful internship experience. I truly enjoyed every aspect of the internship, from the people and team culture to the meaningful projects and great location. It was an incredibly positive learning experience, and I would highly recommend working there.

Cons

While the business professional dress code may not be for everyone, I personally didn’t mind it and felt it contributed to the professional environment.

1.0
15 Apr 2026
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Pros

Not much, if you want a place that's okay with mediocrity, then welcome.

Cons

They blindly follow industry trends not industry standards. We have an initiative to use AI to increase productivity, without a proper plan, without security in mind and lack of general understanding. Consistently understaffed, for example there are teams or parts if teams that have max 4 developer type roles with 36 apps or APIs to support - this has lead to inconsistent code and effort as employees are spread too thin to be able to deliver quality work. Management refuses to take responsibility for issues that arise from being understaffed. Teams are not consistent in what tools and pipelines are used causing even more confusion and delays. Double standards: they don't want to properly promote or give raises to hard workers. Upper management made it clear to direct managers that "meets expectations" was a fine thing to give... To employees doing more than their fair share of work and are doing work outside of their role since they have no one else to do it do to being understaffed.

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