Succesful company, depressing place to work at - Anonymous employee PACCAR Employee Review

1.0
Apr 29, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great stability, if you like working here or need steady income, you can likely stay here forever without getting fired or laid off. And they have cool pension. - Working constantly with outdated system can actually make you look really fast and proficient when you move to other companies to use up to date systems. - Having to work in business attire everyday can make you look like a pro in front of friends when dressing up for weddings or mafia themed parties.

Cons

- Managers are like gods in this company, don't disagree with them, pretend to really like everything they are into. - Your out of work personality and lifestyle is judged here and will affect your career development within the company. Since employee personalities are so suppressed at work, there are a lot of unhealthy gossiping floating around. Very old school and boring work environment, strict work hours without project based flexibility or much option to work from home.

Explore other reviews about PACCAR

5.0
Apr 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work environment. People are treated with respect.

Cons

Sometimes we have non production days.

1.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not much, if you want a place that's okay with mediocrity, then welcome.

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.

3
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All