Ford

Great pay, holidays, and benefits. Get to work on cool vehicles. Lots of opportunities to work on various products and technologies.

• Be prepared to work hard.
• Expect long hours in many positions.
• The work is stressful.
• Growth takes forever.
• Processes are slow and old.
• The company is very rigid.
• Most of management has been at Ford for 25-40 years. Change is not easily accepted.

Stick to strategies and timing plans longer than one month after establishing them.

Work to eliminate churn.

Stop promoting a better culture and work-life balance if no actions are ever going to be established. It kills morale by providing false hope.

Weed out management and employees with negative and hostile attitudes.