Volkswagen Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Volkswagen as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Very Busy and Competitive environment. Always working on the next goal. opportunity for advancement. Great co-workers. Awesome place to work.

Cons – i don't see any. :)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Volkswagen part-time

Pros – great pay/laid back work when management absent

Cons – management superiority complex, high schoolish drama, fear tatics and the blame game a normal thing

Advice to Senior Management – stop hiring idiots who capped out in high school be in charge cause most of the time their disrespectful bullies who are costing your company customers but blaming their underlings

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Volkswagen full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good, quality cars. Nice people to work with.

Cons – Very low profit margin, very hard to make a liveable earning.

Advice to Senior Management – Implement the philosophy of no negotiating, one price shopping. The price you see is what you pay.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Volkswagen

Pros – If you enjoy cars, it will be a great fit for you since the highlight of the job was test driving all the new cars and giving an opportunity for people to get a new car.

Cons – Management enjoyed lying and cheating on potential clients on car deals..for a example a person can find them self paying more than what they were trying to accomplish

Advice to Senior Management – Management need to review their processes because the workers in the used car department were always complaining about not getting paid well and the paying structure was such a disparity between workers.

Current Employee – been working at Volkswagen full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great focus on employees, good development opportunities

Cons – none, just good.
Best german company

Advice to Senior Management – Go on, 2018

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Volkswagen full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good company with great values and knowledge.

Cons – German culture too strong and sometimes difficult the work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Volkswagen as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – salary 650-1050 eur per month + benefits, relative stability of the work place

Cons – You get exhausted every work day, you don´t have any energy or taste to do anything at all. And you get the feeling that you are always at work because of the continous 4-shift pattern.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Volkswagen full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Different jobs, experiences, areas. Moving from one to another area is quite easy if you are a people person and skilled in what you do. Company has international and growing business. Opportunities may help you land on other parts of the planet if you want (and can).

Cons – You manage your career alone, and explore new opportunities under covert. The HR system doesn't work although they claim for 'best employer' program. Promotions are very rare. You are promoted from outside. From inside promotion doesn't work and you have to do lots of politics.

Advice to Senior Management – Walk the talk and o objective review of career path and be honest about skills and potentials. If negative opinion on promotions then give true and objective guidance on how to improve, and make it part of the regular (quarterly( follow up. Check also with skip level meetings.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Volkswagen full-time for more than a year

Pros – Working Culture is good and highly negotiable

Cons – Girls are less and so enjoyment is less

Advice to Senior Management – Increase female employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Volkswagen as an intern

Pros – Nice work-life balance, good on CV, chance to learn spanish and some great people

Cons – bureaucratic dinosaur, only little learning opportunities and bad compensation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend