Rolls-Royce Reviews

Pros

Where else do you as an intern have the opportunity to walk around the factory, meet with executives, and make meaningful contributions to projects that are on the leading edge of technology in their field.

Cons

Some managers do not provide enough direction and work at the start, however this ends up being a good thing as it causes you to grow your confidence and seek your own tasks and to do the work that you feel is necessary.

Advice to Senior Management

Have specific assignments you want interns to do.

Pros

Intelligent colleagues, good working relationships and culture

Cons

Poor welfare services, frequent changes in leadership of projects

Pros

Large variety of projects and businesses including energy, defense and commercial projects. Good mix of products in both small and large engines

Cons

too slow to implement change in processes and respond to customer needs . No strategic vision to protect current market share ...

Advice to Senior Management

get proper feedback from the lower ranks and decentralize decision making so that decisions are made where the customer base exists

Pros

Great working environment and benefits. Employee empowerment and feedback with constant communications within the department. Excellent cross functional team work.

Cons

Bureaucratic and heavy on process control. Process in most cases must be followed to gain a check in the box more than logic and need to do so.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate More
Train More
Improve process does not always mean to make the process heavier and more gates
Must ensure employee retention and fight for those who must be retained

Pros

Overall good. People are very open on sharing information.

Cons

As limited manpower as there is, the company is still trying to cut on budget and head count.

Pros

Great exposure to the technicalities of a specialized product

Cons

No direction; poor leadership at the time i was there

Advice to Senior Management

listen to the concerns of you Human resources

Pros

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Cons

If you aspire to be a senior manager, you're almost required to give up your family and relationships. If you're ask to move to the other side of the world to take a position they've chosen for your "development", you can't hesitate or you'll be black listed for your entire career. It's VERY political.

Advice to Senior Management

By supporting and better providing for employees, they will get better performance and loyalty. It is not a sustainable business to have major reorganizations every 3 years.

Pros

Work-life balance is good, but thats where the goodness stops.

Cons

Location is a cowtown. Many free-riders and the place is infested with former incompetent GM and Delphi employees that have formed a nice social network that impedes performance.
Mediocre competence of hired staff compared to industry leaders.
 Highly political and dysfunctional with high turnover - revolving door with 3 leadership changes in 5 years. Worse bureaucracy than a third world government. Union is inefficient.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is about getting things done, not lip service

Pros

The gas turbine engines are interesting to work on.
Indianapolis is a good affordable location.
Like when you stop banging your head on a wall, it feels good when you leave.

Cons

1. Worst offices in America. The workplace environment in some offices is unbelievable.
2. Definitely a good old boys network. Promotions are not based on ability.
3. Women need not apply.
4. Blacks need not apply.
5. Many layoffs. Hire and fire mentality.
6. Technical expertise has been lost; Management at this site is incompetent.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is hopeless, they will not listen to constructive criticism. A product line of obsolete engines will lead to closing this site within 5 years.

Pros

The products and the people. Such a broad and diverse community across the Nordics and growing to include colleagues around the world. The range of products is huge and the focus on delivering specific customer project needs in every vessel remains a challenge in a cost competitive world. Great opportunity to move around the global business if mobile and eager for that challenge.

Cons

There remains a tension between the Aero standardised process oriented way of doing things and the more fluid Nordic and Marine methods. This is seen in the drive towards management structures that do not always recognise the value of older organisations. Some of this is necessary as the company attempts to globalise its production and supply chain base. A strong bureaucracy exists and the insistence on creating tension through the matrix of functional and line management leads to very slow decision making and a lack of ownership in some areas.