Toyota North America Reviews

Pros

Toyota offers their employees competitive salaries, a great benefits package, and tons of onsite amenities meant to encourage a healthy work/life balance, fitness, etc. Most importantly, when they say that respect for people is a core pillar of the Toyota Way, they mean that. I've been with this company my whole career (started as an intern and was hired on full time almost 5 years ago), and have no plans to leave any time soon. I'd recommend Toyota to any family member or friend.

Advice to Management

Continue supporting your team members and give them the autonomy to make decisions and learn.

Pros

Good pay great benefits. Good work environment

Pros

Pay is acceptable and bonuses are nice.

Pros

-Larger than life brand/company, lots of career options.
-Headquarters campus is very nice, good food options.
-Quality and reliable products.
-Good pay and benefits.

Advice to Management

-Stop the favoritism!!!! Let your people do what you hired them to do, don't just talk about being innovative and being a family, actually be it! Toyota overall is a great company but the people you have placed in Management are keeping the company from reaching it's full potential. The culture is suffering because of all of the negative and unfair treatment going on across the company. Also, step up the technology in the vehicles, and stop half doing things because it's bringing down the brand. Put the right people in Management positions instead of just being about who you know because some of the people in these positions are not only undeserving but they are also unqualified. God bless you all! I hope it gets better.

Pros

Benefits and lots of opportunity to work with local charities. Also lots of bright people.

Pros

benefits, comfort, company values work life/balance

Advice to Management

Be open to innovation, quicker software releases

Pros

Work-life balance, new campus in Plano, decent insurance benefits

Advice to Management

Create structured development programs that allow your employees to rotate between departments and have a clearer career path. Live your values and enhance benefits to offer expanded paternity and maternity leave.

Pros

Pay is competitive.
People are nice and have a loyalty to the company.
Benefits are good.
I truly believe Akio/Top Managers want to lead the industry as "mobility" becomes the next chapter of the industry.
The focus on volunteerism and making a long term commitment to the communities in which Toyota operates.
Working level folks have been actively bridging the TEMA/TMS silos and trying to work together after the relocation.

Advice to Management

Please, please find a way to gently pushback against things that don't make sense. Saving $100 in a budget category that's overspent by $50 by hiding $10,000 somewhere that is under spent by $75,000 is stupid. Be willing to teach or pushback against an executive when their request represents a massive workload for no perceived tangible benefit (or atleast explain the request's purpose to staff to prevent burnout).

Realize that you're a manager for the company overall. Finding a way to maximize your headcount/minimize your budget spend by putting a 5x burden on another part of the company is not a win. Please put the interest of the company above your specific and barely noticed KPI. Spending $1 out of your budget to save $10 at an NAMC is worth it and you should be willing to explain the overage should it come up. Please don't focus on your overtime budget (which is underspent) while treating another department's employees as "free".

I really, really want you guys to do well. I think Toyota can be a force for good but my small corner of the company is experiencing dysfunction that makes it hard to stay motivated.

Pros

Great benefits, average pay, opportunity for advancement

Pros

Toyota has some of the best benefits I have ever seen at a company. The lease car alone is a huge plus and managers and above get a stipend for a lease car. This essentially allows for a free car for managers and above. I have the most expensive medical plan and it costs me roughly $75 a month. I am single with no dependents. Retirement plan is pretty decent. Not the best but still good.

The people at Toyota truly do care about the company. They want to see it succeed. Management have an loyalty to the company that I have not seen anywhere else. Mostly this works out for good. What Toyota is doing as a whole company is pretty inspiring . When you see Akio talking about mobility it is exciting. The company as a whole is doing some very interesting things with mobility and connected world.

Toyota does amazing things for the community. The partnerships they have with community and the sheer number of volunteer opportunities is the best I have ever seen from a company. People inside Toyota care about making a difference in the community and it is built into the culture. Also the business partnering groups are diverse and give employees other opportunities to use their talents.

Advice to Management

Let your team members do their jobs. Stop blocking them with useless red tape and bureaucracy. You are going to continue to lose talented people for better more technical jobs if there is not major change in your work processes.