Continental Reviews

Pros

Strong first impressions Great People To Work With Exciting and Innovative Products Flexi Time/Work-life Balance

Cons

No onsite parking so short walk required

Advice to Management

None

Pros

Very friendly staff and good local managers (things seemed relatively calm!). I was able to maintain a reasonable work-life balance. The possibility to travel and work abroad, if desired. Potential to be involved with interesting projects. The location seems to be growing rapidly (always hiring new staff, and not too many leaving) Nice location. Flexible hours, and possible to work from home occasionally,...

Cons

The method of working (Continuous Integration with Agile Scrum) feels a little chaotic. Of course, I'm not that keen on Agile Scrum, but that's my own opinion! I worried that a lot of my work would be wasted because of a culture of always working towards demos. I found the work a little too basic.

Pros

Freedom to act on own initiative, employee tyre discount, company car allowance

Cons

Lack of support, no clear direction, trapped between customer and company.

Advice to Management

More support and direction needed.

Pros

Flexible work environment. Opportunity to move around.

Cons

Not a great place. Low pay .

Pros

Nothing that I can think of.

Cons

Tasks/projects on which people are working on can be changed suddenly and with no prior warning. Line management tells you what your time allocation between projects is (approximately - no explicit figure ever given - it's always 'around' - but that makes it difficult when different projects leads are imposing requests to adequately negotiate). This is especially true when priorities are not clearly laid out. ...

Advice to Management

I don't know where to start. Closing the site down would probably be a good starting place.

Pros

Interesting problems. Good location. Talented colleauges

Cons

Terrible Management, Demo based planning, not putting any value for research, Treating research problems as solved problems, lack of understanding of the field from people who make the decisions. Repeating same mistakes over and over.

Pros

Big company, working on many topics in the automotive area Easy to switch department Interesting projects

Cons

Incompetence means that projects end up failing spectacularly

Advice to Management

Hire good people and create a culture of excellence from the start. Stop the improvisation!

Pros

The site is located in a picturesque tourist attraction, and the workforce is very multicultural and has an abundance of talent and experience.

Cons

A brutal and unforgiving working culture which strays sometimes to the wrong side of abusive. The management team is preoccupied with internicene warfare and poisonous personality conflicts. Stand-up shouting matches in the corridors are not unheard of. Some outright bullying and intimidation has occurred also. The management team is very inexperienced and chaotic. The workplace exists in a state of permanent crunch-time...

Advice to Management

The management team need to stop fighting and undermining one another. They need to come together to present a strong and unified front with which they can push back against the obscene demands eminating from senior management. They need to develop a detailed roadmap and a set of realistic plans so that projects can be completed without inflicting so much damage and harm on the workforce. They need to do something...