Ford

• The different plant locations in the area provide different work opportunities.
• Proximity to the headquarters assures company/business updates are recent and relevant.
• Although bad, the economic downturn allows for significant, available project work to be completed as they (hopefully) start rebuilding.

Determining project work and objectives was challenging due to the bureaucracy.

Onboarding was confusing, not straightforward, and poorly laid out.

I was hired under one manager, who was then transferred to Canada, and the transition to a new manager was stodgy.

Internally, processes were slow and lacked standard procedures for work, analysis, etc.

The internship program should operate as a feeder into the full-time program, which was conferred to us but appears to be significantly lacking in operation.

The project(s) were not fully laid out prior to my arrival. We scrambled my first week just trying to pull something together, and I was not given a proper exit interview/opportunity at the end of the summer.

For a company that spoke of growing and expanding, that was less-than-evident in the facilities themselves.