Ford Motor Reviews

Pros

Quantitative based decisions by senior management and a willingness to listen to all viewpoints. Forthright and honest employees are highly valued.

Cons

On average, contract and supplemental employees are not valued financially (benefits, etc) for the work they accomplish. This creates divisions between the haves (regular, full-time) and the have-nots (agency, supplemental, etc).

Advice to Senior Management

A workforce that once had high morale is on the cusp of becoming a disheartened workforce. The strong gains in customer approval and loyalty will be eroded by a disgruntled employee base. Increase pay if won't supply benefits and vacation.

Pros

Colleagues and location were decent

Cons

No room for advancement from lower level to mid/upper management.

Pros

The company is really on it's way to being fully competitive with the rest of the industry. Pushing hard for design and technology innovations, and has cutting edge approach to advertising.

Cons

Still very political system, which is amplified by a global system. Currently Alan Mullaly and Derrik Kuzak are holding the ship together, but both are near retirement.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not rest on rooting out politics and drama with in the ranks. You are losing a lot of top talent, and hare having major difficulty recruiting good people back.

Pros

new learnings, strategic directions are clear. Top level management assertive and aggressive.

Cons

no career growth even on consistent performance. Middle management is the weak link.

Advice to Senior Management

strengthen middle layer with actually knowledge people.

Pros

work will be so liesure and cool.so much space to learn new things and get to know with different cultural people

Cons

work pace will be slow you will get bore sometimes.
 you will be annoyed with the ford infrastructure and the security.

Advice to Senior Management

the management is working as it should be.i do not have any suggestions to offer to the ford management

Pros

Great Benefits, lots of potential for growth. Ability to move within the company or stay put if you want to stay in a job.

Cons

Business cycle is vary cyclical. The stress levels can go from 0 to 100% in a second. Competition in the industry is intense and growing everyday.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep expanding the market and growing the business with out getting too compilcated. Mullaly is guiding the company but won't be around for ever. The next leader needs to follow suite usually they enter into the CEO job with thier own agenda.

Pros

good communication and deep knowledge base. Involvement on several vehicle programmes. ?t is possible to improve your talents and knowledge

Cons

There are nearly 500 people working now in engineering and it is not so easy to make a career plan

Advice to Senior Management

It is a very good company that you can trust in and be proud to be the part of it.

Pros

Good place to work. Salary is of the best in the area. You get to receive employee pricing for all Ford vehicles.

Cons

Too far away if you live in Istanbul. You have to relocate. Benefits are not good.

Advice to Senior Management

Benefits should be revised.

Pros

It's a point of pride working for a company with such history. Also the turnaround the company made in the past 5 years, and w/o bailout, is amazing. Because it's a private company it less "faceless" - when a decision is made one knows there is a person behind it, not a flock of corporate lawyers. Senior leaders are accessible, always friendly, often smart.

Cons

Almost no grows opportunities. When a supervising position opens Ford prefers to hire then to advance. A LOT of bureaucracy, meaningless paperwork.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't wait with well deserved raise until a person decides to leave. And don't be affraid to lay out a fool or a sleep-head

Pros

They give you a real world assignment that is complex and demanding. Throughtout the internship program they guide you and provide the encouragement to help you achive the goals.
Toward the end of the program (3 month) you have yo present you fininding to upper management and demonstrate your potential.

Cons

Needed more time to complete my project as it was complex

Advice to Senior Management

I wish the scope of the work is better defined. It just help zone in your project and stahy more focussed.