Embraer Reviews

Pros

Good place to work with aeronautics

Cons

Mature and to big company

Pros

Techinical Challenge
Patriotism as the most technological prone company in Brazil.

Cons

Very weak middle management.
Low carreer oportunities
Technical capabilities not rewarded
Slow salary progression

Advice to Senior Management

Reward technical carreer.
Recover the engineering prone company that it was years ago.

Pros

Good to learn about the industry
Travel opportunities
Good training and networking
Good evironment, long lasting jobs

Cons

Very bad middle management, from a technical backgound without leadership skills
HR policies are very outdated
Very slow to react to labour market changes, very very very very slow to promote the best and deal with underperformers

Advice to Senior Management

Hire the best and few people, give real bonus to encourage the best to stay

Pros

Near home. Hourtime flexibility. Good benefits.

Cons

Not prepared leadership. Not worried about keeping senior workers.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to focus for reverting the CONS.

Pros

Company has a good trainee program for newly graduates in engineering. There are internal opportunities for job changes. The product is very interesting, specially for engineers. The company built a good public reputation over the last year, with lots of investment in marketing to attract new employees, so former employees are valued by other companies. Salary (for newly graduates) and benefits (medical, dental, medicine, retirement plan) are above average in Brazil.

Cons

Carrer evolution stops after 4-5 years, when employee is too specialyzed to find a similar position in other industries. Management positions are always given to the same employees, even if they were not successful in previous management roles. Company culture is based on authoritarianism: questioning a management decision or presenting a different point of view is usually not well received by the managers.

Advice to Senior Management

Refresh the company leadership, give opportunities to other people. Listen to your employees. Value technical experienced professionals, do not treat them like easily replaceable labor.

Pros

Passion is the key at Embraer

Cons

Management lack international experience and culture

Advice to Senior Management

Open your mind

Pros

work time very flexible
salary is good compared with other companies in the region

Cons

Managers do not follow up / get involved well
Too much politic, not so professional

Advice to Senior Management

Be more professional

Pros

salary; benefits; trainning; life quality

Cons

work hours ; opportunity; reconizing;

Pros

Very good in preparing the employees

Cons

Usually the coordinators are not well prepared to manage/treat the employees

Advice to Senior Management

Monitor the feedback of employees evaluation as a sampling to bypass some hierarchic steps to have a real scenery on how the things are going on.

Pros

- High technology, "sexy" product.
- Very competitive salaries for engineers at the beggining of their career.
- Very competent engineers and overall technical staff
- Very organized in comparison with most firms
- HR seems concerned about motivation of employees. HR does not always do a good job, but at least they seem to try.
- Global company, which means you usually have the opportunity to deal with other companies around the world, either with partners, clients or suppliers.
- Good benefits
- Life style balance depends a lot on the area you work. Can be very good (44h/week) or very bad (80h/week).

Cons

- Very slow career progression (there are very rare exceptions to this rule)
- Low bonuses (the most recent ones have been negligible)
- Most part of the management doesn't have a formal education in management and manages according to "gut feeling" and own rules.
- In some cases, the disparity between salary and responsibility is huge (great responsibility, low salary).
- Despite the set of rules created for promotions, merit is still less taken into consideration than personal relationship with management.

Advice to Senior Management

- Incentivize managers
- Give more emphasis on meritocracy for promotions.