Stable and some interesting projects - Design Engineer PACCAR Employee Review

3.0
Mar 24, 2016
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Pros

PACCAR is a stable company and if you position yourself well you can work on some pretty interesting projects. The EPA continues to tighten emissions regulations and so the trucking industry is always re-designing engines systems to meet new regulations. Although it can be tedious this work is super stable, e.g. they can't sell trucks after certain dates unless they re-design for the regulations.

Cons

The culture is a bit dated. When I worked there telecommuting was not a realistic option as management seems more concerned with seat time than results. Also, engineering work can be largely dependent on a CAD system that is (or at least was) slow and subject to frequent crashes. This wasn't a huge deal but could be frustrating.

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Pros

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Cons

They blindly follow industry trends not industry standards. We have an initiative to use AI to increase productivity, without a proper plan, without security in mind and lack of general understanding. Consistently understaffed, for example there are teams or parts if teams that have max 4 developer type roles with 36 apps or APIs to support - this has lead to inconsistent code and effort as employees are spread too thin to be able to deliver quality work. Management refuses to take responsibility for issues that arise from being understaffed. Teams are not consistent in what tools and pipelines are used causing even more confusion and delays. Double standards: they don't want to properly promote or give raises to hard workers. Upper management made it clear to direct managers that "meets expectations" was a fine thing to give... To employees doing more than their fair share of work and are doing work outside of their role since they have no one else to do it do to being understaffed.

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