Mack Trucks Reviews

Pros

Many proud, knowledgeable, and professional employees to work with.

Cons

It is a competitive work environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Support team work and provide leadership and direction to all employees.

Pros

Great Health Benefits and good working hours

Cons

Hard to be promoted within

Advice to Senior Management

Value your loyal employees and promote within; provide more outside training to strengthen your leaders of the company

Pros

Some good people, benefits above average.

Cons

Company lost the quality focus in pursuit of low cost.

Advice to Senior Management

Mack Brand users want Mack product.

Pros

Heritage of century old company and proven industry leadership creates a great atmosphere. Teamwork among all departments to support customer demands makes for fast-paced environment.

Cons

Since merger with AB Volvo, some of Mack's market strength has eroded due to product and process commonality with parent company "ways of working", where not enough of what "Made Mack Mack" remains. It can be argued that the products have become commomditized.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure to remember where Mack came from and how and why it became an american icon. Sometimes I am not sure that this is always at the forefront of product planning anymore.

Pros

Exciting product and field to work in, comprehensive benefits packages

Cons

Inconsistent direction from upper management, burdensome "matrix" management, poor interdepartmental communication.

Advice to Senior Management

From near the bottom looking up, it would be nice to see more detail in management announcements. We often hear of a new strategy or goal of some sort, but no details on what the plan is to accomplish that. As an entry level employee, I want to contribute to the success of my company, but get very little direction on what I can do, while my own ideas generally don't get an audience because of my position.

Pros

before AB Volvo it was great. Mack was loyal and fair to its employee.

Cons

local management has become anti people

Advice to Senior Management

get rid of your managers and get people person who can manage

Pros

The experience. There were some nice people.

Cons

Don't go anywhere. Feel like you're doing circles.

Advice to Senior Management

Show like you care.

Pros

Small company feel. Flat organization where analyst have direct contact with senior VPs. Benefits are outstanding compared to Fortunae 500 companies. Mack does not have a stiff corporate culture or stick to a strict heirarchy in reporting. The culture is laid-back and friendly. People perfer to visit your work space to ask questions or to collaborate instead of using the phone or e-mail.

Cons

Career growth and/or job rotations are limited due to flat oranization and many older employees who aren't going anywhere. Promotions at Mack are up to 5% for same pay grade and up to 10% per grade level increase. Otherwise, regular annual pay increases average 2%-3.5% depending on where the industry is in its cycle.

Advice to Senior Management

Employees get the impression that the parent company does not care about employees at Mack Trucks.

Pros

good people to work with

Cons

business cycles can be difficult

Advice to Senior Management

build all trucks at Macungie