Bullying managers who do absolutely nothing - Engineer PACCAR Employee Review

2.0
2 Aug 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people you work with are awesome. Its really great being able to interact with people from all different backgrounds, people with engineering degrees, technical degrees, and masters degrees. I like taking breaks and stopping by the shop and talking with the mechanics that work on the vehicles and getting their honest opinions about everything.

Cons

Many of the managers constantly talk down to you, they're a few awesome ones, but they're far too many that are worthless and managers have nearly 100% job security, they never get fired or laid off. HR is worthless. if you complain about something you're going to be the first one gone during hard times. Recently they announced we can no longer save emails so when you have history with a project or a CYA (cover your a$$) email, those will all be gone. After 12 months they'll be auto-deleted. You move around often so when a new guy in your former position comes to ask about a project, you can no longer give them a good head start or advice where to begin.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
15 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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