I was recruited to work at Visteon with a lot of promises about advanced projects and new groundbreaking technology. I left a good job at a Fortune 50 company to take this job. I am very sorry I did that. What I discovered was a company with no virtually no budgets for anything advanced, a tiny staff, and a work force that is beaten down and terrified of management.
Perhaps they honestly believe that what they are working on is groundbreaking, but other companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars and have had legions of people working on similar projects for years. What they are doing at Visteon is mostly window dressing for Wall Street.
All of the sales come from technologies acquired from a company they swallowed. Current leadership has had few successes.
If you are considering working here, have a good look at their product portfolio and ask yourself if there is anything there that any number of competitors can do or that the OEMs can do simply by sourcing the components themselves. I wish I had done that. Now I am searching for a new job and I am discovering that the Visteon name tarnishes your reputation in the job market.
They like to call themselves a "pure play electronics company". Translation: one product line that can easily be sourced to one of the better positioned competitors.
And if you have any good ideas, forget it. The only ideas allowed at Visteon are the ideas that come from the CEO, who is unwilling to listen and surrounds himself by yes-men. And I do mean men. I have never seen a company that was so devoid of women in positions of authority. Again, I wish I had done my research before taking the job.
But you can learn from my mistakes. Unless you are desperate or need a visa sponsor, this is not the place you want to be.
