Chrysler Reviews

Pros

Chrysler is very strong with strong products and healthy balance sheet. The merger with Fiat will help them expand there brand and gain economies of scale.

Cons

If you come in as a contractor be prepared to wait. It will take several years before they will convert you. The only option is to look for another position either inside or outside chrysler.

Pros

Encouraging and energetic work environment/culture, excellent networking opportunities, creative and hardworking employees, an atmosphere that encourages continuous improvements, multiple brands to work with (each with their own personality), opportunities to grow with the company, ability to work with multiple departments, a diverse workforce, available resources, pay and benefits

Cons

Large age gap between Senior Management and salary employees, corporate beauracracy, inpersonal (large company, people often get overlooked due to the amount of employees), tarnish brand reputation due to bankruptcy

Advice to Senior Management

Pay forward employee appreciation and recognition, build a more personal relationship (while remaining professional, keep an open door, meet with staff regularly to ensure fluidity.

Pros

Steady paycheck
Nice facility
Really nice co-workers

Cons

Dealing with the union folk
Management is lacking - poor competency
Too many wanna-be's and PC's - no need for the product chief position
Too political and group oriented for decisions that don't require 10 people's input

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of yourself

Pros

Lots of resources and large facility
Interesting work
Decent pay

Cons

Too many people in one place
Too hierarchal - many people think they are so-called better than others until they leave the building after work, then return to nobodys
Parking is a nightmare
Too diverse a workforce - english is becoming a second language (and it's butchered there currently)
Management needs to start actually doing things and stop reading emails only

Advice to Senior Management

Get off your chair and do some physical activity - email is only as accurate as the person who wrote it.

Pros

Talented employees - able to do what it takes to get the job done.
Exciting products
Great facility

Cons

Lost much of their talent
New leadership main focus seems to be work is number one at all cost with little appreciation for a job well done.

Advice to Senior Management

Empower employees to have a larger role in decisions. Improve opportunities for upward movement, more responsibility, etc...

Pros

Interesting work
employee car program
great benefits
time off

Cons

There are some incompetent employees but that is also true within any company

Advice to Senior Management

I am satisfied overall with my job and I am very grateful to work somewhere as upbeat and enjoyable as Chrysler.

Pros

The only con is that it pays good.

Cons

No respect, lack of communication from management and the union to the employees, does not like to approve for time no matter how serious it is, management always try their hardest to set people up to get fired or kicked out and you are not guaranteed your job ESPECIALLY if you get hurt on the job. If you get hurt on the job they treat you less and send you home and they do NOT want to say its work related so they do not have to pay you. There are part timers who were promised to be rolled over over a year ago and not only are they still part timers but their hours have been cut back and the union is not fighting for them to get rolled in. The management is very poor at a particular plant. There are way more cons than pros as you can see.

Advice to Senior Management

Please watch your floor supervisors, area managers, and team leaders of the plants. They're very dirty.

Pros

great benefits, time off, etc.

Cons

salary ranges are huge...i made mid-50's while my co workers who'd been there longer were making mid-70s and mid-90s (1 grade level up)

Pros

tons of autonomy - as much as you can handle.

Cons

work environment is totally disorganized. responsibilities are not well understood between groups.

Advice to Senior Management

start with communicating responsibilities!

Pros

Good Experience, Lot of activity

Cons

Poor Management, Lack of Long term vision