Ford Motor Reviews in Detroit, MI Area

Pros

Excellent Company, benefits, vacation policy, worklife balance, vehicle lease program, excellent pay

Cons

Career Track Silos make it difficult to move into other areas of the company

Advice to Senior Management

Excellent company keep up the good work

Pros

Huge company with lots of resources. Great place to train and develope. Plenty of opportunities to change jobs within the same company.

Cons

Huge company -- run the risk of being "getting lost is the crowd". Always a risk when working for big companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work! Great job being the best US Automotive Company! Only make sure you don't fall in the same traps as before.

Pros

great colleagues, competent and capable, moral

Cons

toxic management practices...HR Policy is little more than "lip service" to what matters. Behavior when it counts is non-existent.

Advice to Senior Management

Have the courage/character to practice what you preach....values are demonstrated not by words, but by behaviors - and the willingness to make tough, values-based decisions ... defending toxic leaders at the risk of poisoning the organizational culture is NOT CLEVER; it's BAD BUSINESS! ... it's not complicated!

Pros

great opportunity to see how all aspects of the design and manufacturing of a vehicle come together to deliver the finished product

Cons

development of the individual even in the presence of major accomplishments is lacking unless you are considered on the fast-track within the company

Advice to Senior Management

I would look at the development of all employees vs the specified development of those you consider on the fast track

Pros

Pay, benefits, Union job (hourly), good hours, opportunity for extra money in the form of overtime, good coworkers

Cons

old, dirty factory, sometimes dangerous

Advice to Senior Management

Be more organized!

Pros

- Historical American company
- Opportunity to work with experts in the field
- Open communication from management
- High diversity (may be applicable to only my team)
- Ford encourages diversity through various religious group, celebrating different festivals

Cons

- Vertical promotion and getting converted from contract employee to regular employee seems very difficult.

Pros

Work life balance and flexible work schedule

Cons

limited chance to get promotion

Advice to Senior Management

more competitive salary and promotion chance

Pros

supervisor is nice and work time is flexible

Cons

old employers unlikely to learn and use new technology. the employee quality in India is not good and often make trouble and we have to fix them

Advice to Senior Management

try the best to hire high quality people when decide to do out source

Pros

Given the right job, working a Ford is a good experience. Projects are very interesting with chance to travel overseas Europe and Asia. Most people are interesting and easy to get along with.

Cons

Very big company and easy to get lost in the shuffle. It is also a bit cliquey and hard to figgure out some days.

Advice to Senior Management

Automotive is not an easy business to be in these days. I think any decision is tough as the future of the company depends on the choices management is making today.

Pros

Ford has a Family like culture.

Cons

Due to large size, sometime internal proceses get slower

Advice to Senior Management

Create more opportunities for promotions