Daimler Trucks North America Reviews

Pros

Vacation days, work-life balance and the company culture. Everyone want to work with you and recognize your growth, contributions and effort on a daily basis. Growth and challenge are given if that is what you desire...

Cons

Immigration needs team is a lacking and the effort behind it to retain employees, compensation is still a bit lower but awesome workplace makes up for it in happiness...

Pros

Health care and 4 weeks vacation * note: 4 weeks vacation is actually 3 weeks vacation since you are forced to use vacation time to take the week of July 4th off

Cons

- Lack of any sort of leadership what so ever, direction for the project changed every three months. - Political environment that's about as toxic as Chernobyl. - Your ability to do your most basic tasks is based on who you know more than anything else (this includes work ethic, technical skills, etc) - Severe lack of documentation and training for any of the engineering work - Lots of tribal knowledge that is flying out the door - Salaries are consistently 20% below the median for Portland - They don't negotiate, if you try, you're on a list and will never receive more than a 3% annual raise - Speaking of promotions, the only way to advance is horizontally (and even then, you have to hope that you haven't pissed off your old boss) - As an engineer, you will likely have to do at least 3 jobs at once, whether or not you were trained how to do it. - Senior engineers lack basic technical knowledge about micro controllers and electronics in general - Testing equipment is in short supply since you will never get approved for new equipment (this includes power supplies, multimeters, etc); often times the best equipment available is someone's tool box that they brought from home - there's more, but I've said enough already

Pros

4 weeks of vacation upon starting, good insurance, work environment is very collaborative

Cons

Pay is low compared to any other OEM, engineers are overworked. Year end bonus is non existent

Pros

Pay & Benefits are the whole reason to work here.

Cons

Deal with managers that intentionally force work to Mexico. Facilities manager that uses their position for women & contractors padding their pockets. Plant manager turns a blind eye to it all. Materials manager is a part time employee, has worked from home 75% of the past 2 years. How can a manager run their part of the plant from home. HR hires brings in new hires based on one race.

Pros

A great place to start your career. Amazing PTO (company shuts down week of a Christmas and New Years)

Cons

Will feel like on outsider if not super into trucking. Hard to find a growth path. Not terrible but not great pay.

Pros

401K matching, healthcare benefits, stress level*

Cons

Ineffective management is the main con.