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High Bureaucracy but Great Benefits

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Ford for 2 years
May 5, 2019
Dearborn, Michigan
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Flexible work hours with the option to work from home.

Get practically all holidays off, with 2 weeks of vacation with options to buy two more weeks. Essentially 1.5 months of vacation if you choose to take it.

Plus 2 weeks of personal/sick days.

The company treats employees pretty well.

Cons

As an engineer, you want your challenges to be technology-related. Trying to figure out the most efficient way to return data or the fastest way to do something.

However, at Ford, you will not be doing this. Your challenges will be surrounded around getting around the bureaucracy that cripples this company from leading in automobile technology.

The company talks about moving fast, but has so many requirements that it would be impossible to launch a software product any faster than three months because of all the requests that need to be filled out. Additionally, architecture still works in their dinosaur ways, even though we're using new cloud technologies.

Advice to Management

If you're going to manage a software delivery team, you should probably have experience delivering software or at least become up-to-date with agile methodology.

Quit giving us a list of items saying everything is high priority and giving us deadlines. This is Waterfall methodology, and it's proven to be prone to missing deadlines and does not deliver effectively.

Give us prioritized items so we can deliver each prioritized item in a timely manner.

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