Honda Reviews

Pros

Nice management, location, and of course, kapanese culture.

I really loked it, nevrtheless of the extra time at work every day

Cons

Not professional attitude, lots of the managers relatives hired, not friendly, not any kind of open minded style of managemtn

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more professionals, not relatives

Pros

Enjoy working on cars.

The use of dealership equipment

The state of the art training

You can clock out 40 hrs and get paid 90hrs if you are flat rate.

Cons

The service adviser likes to play favoritism meaning you have to kiss their asses to make lots of money

Limit amount of cars to work on

You can clock out 40 hours but only get paid 25hrs if you are flat rate.

If a customer comes back with a complaint about their car that you just worked on, the advisers will throw you under the bus to save their asses even though its not your fault.

Management will hired incompetent people.

Advice to Senior Management

This is not a fun occupation anymore. You freeze our payrolls but yet your payrolls increases.

Pros

*No lay-offs in the history of the plant
*Solid benefits
*Brand new plant; clean
*Stable place to work
*Legitimately some good people to work with
*Great place for assembly line workers to grow and mature within the company
*Great place for newly graduated engineers to get work experience
*You don't have to choose what to wear to work, because you wear uniforms
*Free pair of work boots every year

Cons

*Minimal pay raises/increases, with no encouragement to try harder
*They emphasize being on "one team", but, no such evidence of actual application of this principle
*Feedback system is majority in negative format - not so much "good job", but "this is why this didn't work"
*No real choice in your career path. They place you where they want you, and you have no clue how to work towards a position that you're interested in
*Very strict with a vague set of rules. No established departmental policy - every policy is verbal, with nothing documented for reference, like the associate handbook is
*No clear-cut way to show how you can advance within company
*Poor job/career mapping. No one knows how to advance, outside of "do very well" for your performance review, but vague goals.
*You do not feel like you are a vested interest within the company.
*No true interest in technical employee advancement (They will not pay for you to go back to school, with no plans on ever doing so)

Advice to Senior Management

*Open your eyes. When your people are dissatisfied, actually investigate instead of saying "we're looking into it"
*Improve your medical treatment program.
*Pay your engineers competitive wages
*Define engineers' career paths. Allow engineers to move within company to other jobs to help them grow and mature.

Pros

excellent benefits with decent pay along with other perks, vehicle discounts etc.

Cons

poor work culture, little job responsibility or accountability.
work itself is not very challenging or rewarding.

Advice to Senior Management

promote based on merit and not on seniority.

Pros

Good if you have a supporting and powerful manager
Small company, so good visibility if you deliver
Job security for permanent staff (contractors also if you have the right contacts)

Cons

Conservative
Pretty flat, not much room for growth
Have to wait years for promotion
Not much of a bonus or increment
Louse designations, keeping manufacturing mentality

Advice to Senior Management

Think different, provide opportunities for growth, provide a better work/life balance

Pros

Very diverse and challenging. Gives you the opportunity to take on big responsibilities

Cons

Salary is low and there are not too many opportunities to move to different jobs

Advice to Senior Management

Increase salary

Pros

Easy cars to work on

Cons

flat rate pay when it's slow

Advice to Senior Management

Great work!

Pros

Learn a lot with alot of responsibilities

Cons

Work too many weekends and holidays

Advice to Senior Management

learn to balance life and work

Pros

Support family life; fellow colleagues are nice

Cons

Low pay & high expectations

Advice to Senior Management

Be open to suggestions by underlings

Pros

- being privy to upcoming product details, and more specifically developing the launch plans for these new products and getting to test them out!
- you play a pivotal role in the development, implementation and achievement of the retail sales strategy.
- direct interaction with senior management, high visibility within the organization; the important people will know who you are.
- this position will help to groom you for advancement opportunities; in field management or more senior office positions
- provide you with great hands on experience in business planning and execution.
- if you are not already an expert (and you should be) you will hone your MS Excel, Access and PowerPoint skills here.
- the health/dental/vision/drug benefit plan is excellent; my pharmacist actually told me it was the best she had come across.
- good deals on company products.

Cons

- you will work plenty of overtime (50 to 60 hour weeks)
- despite the official HR policy to the contrary, you generally will NOT be paid for this overtime. However there is occasionally some consideration given for time in lieu or other off-the-books perks; paid dinners, concert/event tickets, promotional items, etc...
- although the company's products are very technologically advanced, many of their employees, including a few in positions of authority, hold rather "old-fashioned" attitudes, concerning business and otherwise.

Advice to Senior Management

For the older, wiser types: Please continue to impart your wealth of knowledge and experience to your younger colleagues. Please allow them to learn from you and improve on your achievements. Please continue to encourage and reward their hard work.

For the younger types: Please continue to be patient and learn what you are able to from your more experienced colleagues, they brought the company to where it was when you began there.