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Hyundai America Technical Center Reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(172 total reviews)

John Robb

62% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Hyundai America Technical Center has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 172 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hyundai America Technical Center employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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172 reviews
1.0
7 Aug 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay and benefits like gas allowance and zero premium for healthcare are pretty nice, on the high end for the area. Although a huge company, the Ann Arbor building is like a smaller family community. The potential is there for cool R&D projects.

Cons

You would think most of the complaints would be about the Korean culture and management, however I found that it is mostly the incompetent US management that is the most frustrating. Most of the better ones have quit. On a whole, it it is like death by 1000 cuts, it is not one thing that gets you but many little things. For the most part if you are an engineer you will be asked to make powerpoint presentations, then rewrite them ten times and add lots of pictures. Rinse and repeat dozens of times a year. Then you may be asked to send it or present it to Korea where most likely it will go into a black hole. Almost zero US projects ever make it into a car. Another common activity is benchmarking at autoshows and so forth. This can be interesting, depends on the person. The US management keeps promising more design work but for the most part Korea does not trust this office and you will mostly release changes that Korea has already made. Also frustrating is any time a Korean VIP is visiting, everything must be cleaned and painted (they will paint the same wall 10 times a year) and you basically can't conduct actual work. I've seen this other places, but not to this extent. I was told to bring up random 3-D models and rotate them for hours as if I was working on it several times by the US management. Bottom line, if you want decent pay and don't mind jumping through hoops and can put up with the ridiculousness, not a bad place. If you want to feel like you accomplished something at work, don't work here.

2.0
20 July 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay and benefits are average, US staff (only) handled the COVID crisis well, clean place, company parties and lunches for holidays

Cons

Every team has Korean coordinators who are here in the US to run projects and keep an eye on the US teams. They are 100% unaccountable for anything they do or how they act. They are not officially managers, but have all the same power and authority. They rotate out every 4 years, and then the team is a complete mess because the new guy wants to show his bosses back in Korea that he is in charge, and he begins causing chaos all over again. They will tear down team members to help their friends, hide information (what they do best), and make life miserable for anyone who doesn't kiss their hand. They have input into everyone's reviews, but aren't part of the 360 review process (we can't say anything about them!), and US managers don't give coordinators a review. Working with the coordinators is an exercise in being in an abusive relationship. No matter what you do, it's never good enough, always wrong, too slow, and will never measure up to what the lowliest engineer in Korea can do over his lunch break, because you are fat and lazy US staff. If you disagree or try to resist, you will be put down instantly. Spending every day apologizing and pretending that you are wrong and stupid when you are not, will drain the life out of you. You'll hate your job and you'll despise yourself for accepting it and dooming yourself to a life of servitude and useless busywork. You'll never be proud to show your family what work is like for you. If you need a job with pay and benefits, but have no self-esteem, then this is the place for you. You could work here temporarily until someplace less soul-sucking comes along. In the long term, it is not worth the money. The people who have been here for 10 years or more, all look and act dead inside. They just play the game, take their paycheck and go home. And then cry themselves to sleep for giving up their career hopes and dreams to this company.

1.0
7 Dec 2023

Fake Technical Center

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work hours, 1 hour lunch, 2 days wfh

Cons

Recent graduates, do not join this company if you care about your future and career. If you are at this company for more than 3 years your resume is ruined. Because you dont do no work at all. You will be so behind all other oems with bare minimum knowledge. Hatci is literally ruining young kids life. They only hire people to show numbers. If a team is of 10 people it really requires only 2 to do job. Also your managers dont want to take on additional tasks. They will not do any real engineering job, they only fix power points. Once you start working here you start getting depressed and will try to find job elsewhere. Beware beware beware. This company is not Hyundai. This is an entity of Hyndai which mainly just translates everything to English. You’ll be just a middle man. Nothing else.

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