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Smart Team, Toxic Culture

Product Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Ford for less than 1 year
August 14, 2010
Dearborn, Michigan
1.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Making products that you see on the road every day and will see for many years to come. Working with really smart people, which presents opportunities that I would not be offered in other industries.

Cons

Very long, stressful hours. Management stays hidden in their ivory towers, too afraid to venture out and say that we are doing a good job. It's always, "Ford Motor Company has had to make difficult decisions, but we are on the right track now. Keep working your butts off."

Trust is a big issue at Ford. "Trust no one" is the motto. Ford has a very high-school-like atmosphere: this person doesn't like that person. You really have to be good at kissing you know what to get anywhere in this company, plus throwing your coworker under the bus will get you lots of kudos.

It is really not a mentally healthy place to work. If you have a family and want to be in management, kiss your family goodbye.

Advice to Management

Do you really care what I have to say? No is the answer. You have tunnel vision, minds like a trap. Once you have an idea about someone or something, nothing can change your mind. Yet, you are above the rules, can do whatever you wish, and DO!

Thanks for the rising stock prices, but did you really have to almost kill the rest of us to do that?

May God have mercy on you.

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