Pros
Benefits are decent. Some good people on the production floor.
Cons
Pay is low for the physical work. Team Leaders are disingenuous, and lack managemt skills. Department heads are generally disconnected, disinterested and unengaged. Very high turnover of production staff. They preach "working standards" and the "Bridgestone Essence" but they don't "walk the talk". Pretty telling about the working atmosphere when management from Team Leaders on up don't follow the "working standards". The modified DuPont schedule makes it difficult to balance work and home life. Very manual, physical labor production. Not much in way of automation or working ergonomics. Little opportunity for advancemt. Very Orwellian environment. Every square inch of plant is on video cameras and mgmt. holds it over production workers like a big stick. Company should place cameras in department heads offices to see what they are actually doing or not doing. Mgmnt. touts Bridgestone as a "Premier Place To Work" but it is all talk, and talk is cheap.