Ford Motor Company

the work in this industrial construction project was very productive, having more expertise at the end project.

I have had many contract jobs with Ford, when there is a budget cut they let the contract employees go first! Then for bonuses we don’t get one or even a thank you from the company for what we have accomplished. Other than all of that it was fun working for Ford because they offer flex time hours.

I got an entry level position as a production line supervisor after I graduated from college. I had an engineering degree and I believed that I would go in and do the best I could do as a supervisor and then in a few years transfer over to the engineering side of the company. I did a good job as a supervisor starting in April of 1995. Unfortunately, I was still a supervisor when I was released in June of 2008. I did a good job of supervising my employees and was therefore never sent to do anything else. I tried hard to make the change but they had no positions open for me to make the change to engineering. Overall, it was a good job and they took care of me well but I was not able to get the engineering experience that I desired. Unfortunately, there was a downturn in the auto industry and Ford Motor Company was trying to reduce the number of people on their payroll. Not enough people voluntarily left so I was involved in their first involuntary separation program.

Ford pays well and has relatively strong job security -- unless you develop health problems or do anything else that's outside the boundaries of deeply established norms. Ford's product development workplace culture is also a little rough. People are hard on each other and unprofessionally hard on supplier personnel, there's a lot of ambiguity (the finance organization leads the company but doesn't make a lot of things clear), etc. etc. In other words, don't expect to have a pleasant work environment if you work in or with product development. Other than that, the company business is cool. What's not to like about designing and building cars and trucks, you know?

Working this job has a great detail of negative experiences attached from the way people respond to the value given by the higher management.

Productive workplace. Took all training available in person or on line. Not a chance to get hired direct when available.

Great opportunities in Vehicle Operations to launch new vehicles. It's hard work and long hours, but you learn a lot fast. When the economy is good they try to reward extra hours of a launch in various ways. When the economy is bad, its just extra hours. The health care and benefits were very good. Good pay and great benefits. Ford provided me with the opportunity for a Master's Degree and my Six Sigma training. An automotive launch will give you 4 years of experience in 2 years. You'll also work 4 years worth of hours in that 2 years...did I mention you work a lot of hours?

Loves my job at Ford Monroe, plant closed got transferred to Dearborn truck. Wasn’t as happy there. Took a buy out, never should have done it. Should have stayed.

Besides the benefits Ford sucks! No home/work life balance. If you have a problem no one will/can fix it. Very hard on your body and the medical department is told to blame you so you can not claim anything as workmans comp.

Was hired in April 1964 as Tech Illustrator within the Research & Engineering complex. Spent most of career on the 'bleeding' edge of developing innovative technologies improving quality & efficiencies throughout product development cycle. Retired Oct 1997.

The purchasing and product development environment at Ford is not a pleasant place to work. I was myself subject to employee abuse by my direct manager and could not get the company's HR team to do anything about it. This left a sour taste in my mouth when I left the company.

Lots of pros & cons... My biggest thing is... WE as a person dont matter. FORD MOTOR COMPANY does not give 2 shits about us as a person. Only thing that's important to them is that almighty $$$. Definitely not the company it used to be... 30 years ago. :-(

It was a great company to work for and gives you lots of good experience on building automotive vehicles from ground up.

Productive and supportive team members. Ford makes a real commitment to training their engineering staff with week long training segments which are offered at least once a quarter. Also commitment to quality of worklife initiatives .