Ford

Ford is a big brand name.

Compensation and work-life balance are good.

If you are working on contract at Ford Motors, job security is very poor. You may get fired for very silly reasons. Contract employees are all expendable.

Dare not speak or have an opinion or present ideas that your supervisor does not approve. Just follow orders. Do not expect a career at Ford!!!!

Zero training and orientation are provided for new contract employees, and you are expected to deliver as if you have 10 years of experience working in the company.

Processes are very cumbersome, and any engineering change you try to make takes ages to go through. The gigantic size of the company, poor process flows, and red tape are a major problem. Nobody in the company can explain the exact process when consulted.

The company does not want smart and intelligent contract employees, but only a workforce that follows given orders. Do not expect you can put in new ideas and innovate at Ford.

Management is very crappy. Projects are shuffled every 6 months, so you have to hand over and take over new projects. Projects are literally dumped on you. This leads to a complete loss in tempo, and you have to start from scratch.

Engineering data, reports, and history are not carefully documented and stored in a database to retrieve by new people. Horrible state of affairs. WERS is the most outdated tool you have to work with, which reminds me of user interfaces from the 1960s. D&R is a scape

Improve and modernize the attitude of management and processes from grassroot levels.

Give freedom to innovate and think out of the box at all levels.