Pros
There are some capable engineers that share their knowledge. Several old timers told me after hiring on and having issues to observe management very carefully, take notes if needed, then find a company more to my wants and needs, "You're young he told me." Best advice ever! I learned a lot about keeping my resume up to date and arainging interviews whenever I managed to save enough vacation time to take off an go to one. I was much more selective about interviews given the dearth of vacation PACCAR offers it's workers.
Cons
Management seems oblivious to the fact when the market turns down they cut staff and hours, but NEVER project scope nor work load. In fact if the market turns down management cuts engineering staff, and they accept any order the sales teams can snag, even orders that require 100's of engineering hours to figure out. Since they layoff all drafting support, engineers end up working 55+ hours a week to meet deadlines. Deadlines in jeopardy - your manager will harass you till you get that task done, knowing full well the screaming manager will return next week. Manager will move from Engineer to Engineer reminding him the deadlines can't slip. Can you say Office Space TPS report? Endless "Recovery" plans to figure out how to keep the projects on schedule. Plan's always involve "Free Overtime Engineering" to do the work mainly because management is oblivious to what it actually takes to design their product. IC goals given from Mark Pigott to his minions make sure dumb decision are made throughout the year so they can get their IC bonuses. Reduce overhead and Engineering costs? Having Indian engineers from L&T now KPIT come over on H1B visa's? What the heck is our government doing with today's unemployment allowing drafters in? Like we have NO US workers able to run Pro-E? Are you serious? These Indian drafters are great, but how did PACCAR convince the government they could NOT find a single US drafter to run Pro-E? Why bring these low skilled Pro-E jocks in from Indian? I can see using CAD jocks in INDIA, but to allow them in the US under H1B, just plain wrong?