Karma Automotive Reviews

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Nothing I can think of

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Average insurance plan
Current product has been outdated
Not energetic enough
Need to build the brand

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Can work more on marketing

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The people in the weeds know what's what but Senior Leadership is killing motivation and life/work balance. A lot of GM Senior Staff that is so far removed from the day to day difficulties at the Plant continue to throw new processes & procedures at us as if we are a GM size.

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Sales and Marketing is a joke, the people in charge of Sales & Marketing use the budget as a piggy bank to fund their vacations. The vehicle is not competitive with modern offerings.

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New CEO has a huge mountain to climb due to all the bad decisions made by the previous management. The COOs management philosophy is basically the opposite of the Steve Job's quote on hiring, "...we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."

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As others have mentioned Upper Management is horrific and driving the company into the ground.
CTO is absolutely ruthless and down right a bully, he would be in trouble with HR for his belittling comments at an other company.
Nonstop finger pointing and no accountability between groups.
Employees are not empowered to perform their jobs, almost all decisions must go up to VPs or higher.
Strategy is constantly changing with knee jerk reactions.
HR made broken promises and false claims during the hiring process (for example you do not come in with 2 weeks of vacation, you must accrue it first).

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-Formerly enthusiastic employees are losing morale, people are quitting, high turnover, and they aren't replacing them, which means more work for others.
-Toxic company culture, quickly going downhill.
-Product is an old car and behind other OEMS on innovation .
-Fighting among members of management, who hate each other and are bullies.
-Startup company that is supposed to be dynamic is run by old boys club of large auto companies.
-Management is completely ineffective and not collaborative.
-Amount of red tape, politics, levels of approvals, bureaucracy impedes productivity.
-Past due invoices are mounting.
-Constant change in direction and strategy.
-No strategic direction by management.
-People are objects with little concern for their happiness or wellbeing.
-No company culture. Lured people in years ago with the promises and plans for the company, that have amounted to nothing.
-Some employees are stretched too thin, working late and weekends while others work 9 - 4.
- High levels of stress and burnout while others do the bare minimum.
-You have to fight to be able to do anything because it will be blocked by senior management, who doesn’t trust their own employees’ expertise.

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Negative management environment, too many "big OEM" at the top who treat this specialist manufacturer as just another GM plant.

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Severe cash crunch where past invoices are mounting and vendors not getting paid is the norm. Constant change in direction and strategy where spending money on making a world class product is no longer the priority. Infighting among management and senior executives is an ongoing soap opera. How long will the Wanxiang ownership bear loss of revenue, to support individual leadership egos, will be interesting to see.