Antiquated working style and awful senior leadership - Engineering Valeo Employee Review

Senior directors are part of an old boys network who only care about their own progress. Mid managers are squeezed from the top to push their staff into unreasonable commitments. They’re often ill trained and resort to bullying in some cases, to pressurise engineers to cut corners and hit the unreasonable deadlines. Product quality is always the last priority after time and money. Quality team are not sufficiently supported to do their job and some senior members are not respected within the organisation. The company management was restructured from the top down in 2017 which resulted in a sprawling monster of an RandD department. This resulted in too many telling too few, what to do, how they were doing it wrong and offering very little direction or accountability, due to the individual ability to hide behind the unnecessarily confusing departmental structure. A duplication and remerging of the RandD structure up to this restructuring activity, left so many people managers with no real job that the restructuring activity was about appeasing people that their job was relevant rather than creating a structure that was efficient. There’s very little chance of real progression in RandD now as there are so many managers in the queue for promotion. Morale is less than low, everybody knows it, lives it and suffers it, but only until they can find another job or move back to the country they were originally coxed from. Some of the project management team try their best - but they’re under trained, over worked and used as cannon fodder in front of the customers to cover holes in budget and resourcing. Some of the directors are absolute tyrants and have been this way for many years, they will continue to be this way as it is accepted behaviour. Only expect to progress if you’re a lapdog to upper management as they have little interest beyond self preservation.