DENSO Reviews

Pros

good benefits,safe place to work at

Cons

incompetent supervisor
lack of team work

Advice to Senior Management

improvement of team

Pros

I get a GREAT end of year bonus, and 2 extra weeks a year off usually for the 4th of July and Christmas.

Cons

The top out pay for maintenance has only risen less than a dollar in 5 years. The maintenance management has been promoted from within and struggle. Technicians with broader skills and styles are leaving because of the incompatibility with the management and no chance of promotion. Look at some of the GREAT leaders that have stepped down. NO DEPARTMENT SENIORITY. How can you bring someone from production with ZERO maintenance experience through an apprenticeship and then in 3 years give them access to 1st shift while you have higher skilled workers with 15 plus years in maintenance forced to stay on 2nd or 3rd. Rules prevent SHIFT TO SHIFT in a transfer to another area unless you have been at the same job post for 10 years. So you quit instead of finding happiness in another building possibly. Why would any company want to prevent an employee from moving to the same shift if it is an off-shift anyway?

Advice to Senior Management

Someone in Japan needs to get involved. Advisers should be present to rebuild the original Denso methods. Zone maintenance on a lean skeleton crew is insane. 201, 202, and 203 are falling apart in maintenance. You do not have real technicians running the show. You have unrealistic goals you have set with your manpower and or quality of technicians in place. You have selfish leadership in place. I know what is said in exit interviews. Has anyone done anything about it? Of course not. That is why Green Mountain is snatching up your experienced base. Time for a change in all management!

Pros

Denso is a fast growing company. They focus a lot on quality. There is also good training provided in Japan.

Cons

Company is own by a non United State company. The work ethic and enivronment may take some getting use to.

Advice to Senior Management

My recommendation is to provide for room for growth and development of an employee within the company. This would attract more US workers.

Pros

Job Security is great "Job for Life"
Friendly People
Work/Life Balance

Cons

Benefits not as good as they used to be
No room for growth
Incompetent Management

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your workers...the best are leaving and the company will get stuck with all the underperformers who are taking advantage of the "Job for Life"

Pros

One of the most prestigious company in the industry.
Relatively competitive salary.

Cons

Slow speed on promotion for highly talented employees.
Employees other than Japanese do not get promoted that often.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to start looking at us and employees around the globe as equal as they are paying attention to their employees in Japan.
More English speaking talented staffs are needed.

Pros

They had great pay, I liked the majority of the people that I worked with, and they were pretty flexible if you wanted to move around the company and try different things.

Cons

They expect you to put in a lot of time. I'm not sure how other departments handled it, but engineers would often have to burn the midnight oil.

Advice to Senior Management

The only thing I could think of is helping co-ops to get a better idea of the whole project that they are helping with. Sometimes it seems like everything done is rather ineffectual, and it would be nice to know what is going on.

Pros

Health Care-They cover 100% and ALL of your dependents.

Cons

Too many managers who only know the DENSO way. They have no experience outside of DENSO due to too many promotions within the company. You'll see people who started at entry level positions who are now supervisors or managers.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in software. I don't understand why there are so many people trying to figure out inventory levels. Invest in software that does it for you.