Visteon Reviews

Pros

Excellent Facility, strong heritage from Ford.

Cons

New Management post-Ford has lack of understanding of Visteon products and bad customer relationships

Advice to Senior Management

Improve customer relationships

Pros

Salary / benefits were above average compared to similar jobs.

Cons

Level of Management competency is pretty low.

Pros

Large company-chance to do many different jobs

Cons

Financial situation at the time I was there created many rumours which were distracting for day to day job

Pros

We were paid very well for doing the work a monkey could do.
The benefits were very good, and they paid for any schooling you wanted to take.

Cons

Union was worthless, as well as many of the employees. Management was the same. Mandatory overtime, forced vacation only allowed to be taken at the same time each year. Dirty air quality.

Pros

Good management team in place now.

Cons

The automotive industry is a tough environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good job. Visteon needs to find it's core products and diversify into different industries and expand their customer base.

Pros

Compensation and culture are good.

Cons

Lacking experienced manufacturing leadership. Need to empower the right people. Need to hold all employees more accountable.

Advice to Senior Management

Get to know your real problems, then fix them.

Pros

Very flexible hours and personal time. Managers do not care about employees time schedule as long as it does not cause issues.

Cons

Nowhere to go. Lots of cronyism in management rank. Lower level gets the work with no recognition, but "inner-circles" kept being promoted. Apathy is everywhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Time to really reorganize instead of just personnel shuffling. Provide real recognition to achievers, reward do-ers, do not encourage cronyism and favoritism

Pros

Good atmosphere for the employees.

Cons

Need more opportunity to advance.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to motivate employees more.

Pros

Flexible timing.
Enjoy to work.
Good for learning.
easy to approach senior managment.
Open cluture.

Cons

zero focus on inovation.
driven by US.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to think by own rather than driven by US people.

Pros

During good times the company was an excellent place to work, with opportunity for growth. The Quality of the people and leadership was excellent. The work environment was good, with great consideration
of the work-life balance.

Cons

During the recession and bankruptcy the employee environment was one off fear of loosing your job. People were shuffled around with little consideration of their skills and experience. Benefits were reduced to some extent almost every year from 2008-2010 during the recession. Visteon used to have manufacturing plants in the US, all of these faciities were closed, or sold.

Advice to Senior Management

I realize the last few years have been a tough environment for the automotive industry as a whole, but to not manufacture any components in the US is not a good choice for the communities that rely on manufacturing jobs, and the people who lost or are going to lose their jobs. Many other other automotive component companies were able to survive the recession and keep a manufacturing base the US.