Volkswagen Group of America Reviews

Pros

Awesome work environment. Cool fun projects and the chance to with for the largest Automotive manufacture in the world. The Erl had about 200 or so employees and had the feel of a small tech company with tht resources of VW.

Pros

Great learning experiences, enjoyable to work at

Pros

Good benefits in terms of work flexibility

Pros

Created my own appointments with little supervision

Advice to Management

Be realistic with project timelines

Pros

Very international tasks and good benefits

Pros

the pay was pretty decent

Pros

Great benefits. Was fantastic as long as the Germans ran things.

Advice to Management

Bring back the Germans.

Pros

Working at Volkswagen Group of America, specifically at the Chattanooga assembly plant, is one of the best paying jobs in the Chattanooga area with some of the best benefits as well.

Other pros include great job security for office staff. During my years at the plant, I saw plenty of negative actions from employees lead to nothing, when they would have been fired at most other jobs. Non-existent performance, drinking on the job, calling in sick every week, etc. You have to do something pretty major to get fired from VW.

Working in an automotive plant is pretty cool just in principle, thanks to being around all sorts of robots and cars and getting a "behind the scenes" view that most people never get to see.

Advice to Management

More high level leadership is required to slow down the massive exodus of employees from the plant. People are quitting for a reason. And not just any high level leadership, the plant needs leaders who are focused on improving the culture and the work environment.

Constantly rotating executive level leadership every 2 years is part of the problem as well, since none of the leadership has to live with the consequences of their decisions, because they know they will get rotated again soon. It also seems like the only people who make it to senior manager or above are the really rude, really aggressive types of individuals who solve their problems by yelling and scaring the people around them.

And as small as it is, just providing employees with something as simple as free coffee and free water would be a perk, especially if you expect them to work such long, hard hours.

VW Chattanooga was the first "white collar" job I've ever had in my life that DIDN'T offer free coffee or tea to its employees. As small as that is, I think it also shows where they stand when it comes to employee care. If they can't bother to provide employees with the little things that make work and life a little more comfortable, then you can't trust them to provide the big things either.

Fun fact, they actively choose to provide crappy $4 coffee and eliminated water coolers, all in the name of cost savings, yet every VW car that is built in that plant leaves with imported German gasoline in the tank. They literally ship German gasoline over to fill the cars with, spending millions in the process, despite the fact that the first thing a dealership or buyer is going to do when getting their new car is fill it up with good ole regular gas from the local Shell or BP or Raceway.

Pros

Great company but needs to provide better work hours

Advice to Management

Provide more opportunities

Pros

The organization is constantly providing challenges for their employees. Benefits are very good, such as the employee vehicle lease program.