DAF hires their engineers and technicians almost exclusively through detachering agencies. There is a difference in the work conditions between DAF employees and agency workers. A lot of things are not correctly arranged and the agencies tend to speculate and hide things to attract people. In general the holidays are much less, the flexible working time is almost useless. It has to be rounded off by the end of each week. People wait for years and years to recieve a permanent contract by DAF - this is due to the corporate rule that a fixed percentage of people have to work through agencies. This is also why working well or not is not important. The company is so large that unless you are very good at selling yourself and making key friends nobody will notice your contribution. Even if they do they can hardly offer you a contract! Work place can often be chaotic where a lot of people without competence request or claim things that effect your work negatively. It seems that DAF needs a lot of people and often has to hire whoever is available to fill in the positions. You end up easily working with younger people who have little knowledge and interest in the automotive technology.
