International Truck and Engine Reviews

Pros

People are nice and work place is ok

Cons

Narrow minded and reserved. Union exists.

Advice to Senior Management

HR management needs to be improved.

Pros

Place still had potential but now at best represents a pay check.

Cons

Office politics, inbred managers and "yes" men abound. What was once a good place quickly turning into a show case of outsourcing horror.

Advice to Senior Management

Outsource yourselves and bring the workers back.

Pros

Fort Wayne is a great city

Cons

Poor management and process overall

Advice to Senior Management

lose the good ole boy mantality

Pros

Location0it is situated close to Michigan and Ohio

Cons

None. There seem to be no cons vis a vis other auto companies

Advice to Senior Management

Make a decision about moving to Chicago soon

Pros

Good learning experience, They give someone who has no experience a chance to make a career. great technicians always willing to teach even employees that are not techs.

Cons

you cant trust anything you say will remain with people that are you are telling. The biggest downfall of working here is that the communication between management is close to non-existant.

Advice to Senior Management

learn to talk to your employees, and talk with other members of management to obtain answers before talking to the people involved. communication is the key to sucess in all aspects of life...

Pros

Great training programs. They have a good culture and respect for people. Their diversity program in top notch.

Cons

It is a very cyclical influenced business. They do not have a diverse product mix or customer base.

Advice to Senior Management

Look for other markets and diversity your customer base. Be more critical of capital investments.

Pros

Decent work/life balance - while a lot of politics, good opportunities to do interesting work. Your boss has a decent amount of control in the work, and they will support you to the death!

Cons

Have to do a lot of crud for a little fun stuff. Lots of politics in play. Forced to use contract Indian engineers of whom you have no control, can't get/give feedback, and may not do the work you assign them (not the only company where I've seen this problem, btw). Two levels up there is no understanding or respect for software engineering, until you're gone! The method of evaluating your value is to toss all managers in a room with a paltry 3% raise for them to fight for their engineers. My boss would rate me a 5 (highest) where the wiring harness guy would try to force a 2 on me so he could get more for his employees. There's got to be a better way!

Advice to Senior Management

Create an environment that wants be creative and inventive rather than searching for ways to get cheaper labor. Cheaper doesn't mean better. 10 ignorant engineers do not come close to equalling a single good engineer. In fact, one poor engineer costs the company more than a bunch of good ones!

Pros

The only reason to work at International is if you are an engineer with diesel engine experience and you MUST live near Chicago. The only other place to work is Case New Holland? International knows this, they know that their employees are "stuck" because if they want to quit and get a new job, they MUST relocate.

Actually, the only other reason to work there is that they pay their non-managers overtime. So if you do not have a life, you can make up for the poor salary with the overtime pay. Just do not count on it as they have "frozen" overtime in the past when budgets get tight.

Cons

International does not pay very well. They hire engineers from the bottom of the barrel. They are currently understaffed. Waaaay understaffed. Engineers are quitting this company left and right. If you interview with this company, be sure to ask how many engineers in the specific department have quit in the last year.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe if you paid a decent salary, people would stop quitting.

Pros

For some reason, I've never felt more proud of the work I was doing at International and how the work I was doing somehow had an effect on how the building or sales of a truck would be done. The company does a great job of disseminating information about various projects and goings on within the company to everyone, regardless of position or seniority. You'll also enjoy, if you're lucky, working with some very bright people, most of the people in my department had PhDs, etc. The cafeteria food isn't bad and there are plenty of coffee pots scattered around the football field sized cube farms.

Cons

Be prepared to deal with a massive influx of poor quality outsourced work, you'll be constantly sending outsourced work back to where it came from for reworking, etc. There is also a sense of utter hopelessness in any IT related area, there is no career path and IT is simply viewed as a cost. The red tape and bureaucracy within the organization is simply astounding.

Advice to Senior Management

Be very careful with your outsourcing agreements and how the american consumer will react once they realize International is a shell of its former self.