Pros
1. Relatively high starting salary, even without experience. 2. Some of upper management stay around when you have to stay onsite until midnight for EOM. 3. Some colleagues were enjoyable. 4. It’s a large plant so there’s plenty of places to meet people if they aren’t in a bad mood because of workload. 5. Ask for trainings, they will give it to you.
Cons
1. You will work 24/7. You will work when you get home. You will get calls continuously about orange cards and if you don’t review and sign within ~10 minutes then your manager and all of upper management will know about it and now it is your fault that you are holding up production even though all of their WIP is weeks behind and barely made just in time for delivery (not even considering if they meet the specification or not, which they probably don’t.) 2. You will for sure work horrible hours the last week of every month because EOM is near and submissions for deviated parts are being submitted nearly every hour. You will be onsite until midnight and expected to be back the next day at 8 am at the latest. 3. You get like 7 days of vacation. You work nearly every holiday. Yes Christmas, Thanksgiving, and NYE (might not be in person, but remotely). 4. Sexism and racism in the workplace (amongst colleagues and management). There are entitled men and women here. HR does nothing about it. Management did nothing about it. I personally had three instances were I was singled out and there were no actions besides a reminder about an anti racism and non threatening environment memo circulated. 90% of the office is made up of White men with the other 10% comprised of White women, Black women, Black Men, Asian man, Asian woman, and a Hispanic man. 5. There’s was no real mentorship in the department I was in. My boss was new and did not want to learn anything about what we did to understand our struggles in the company. 6. Work is repetitive. Not real engineering. 7. Upper management will try to persuade you to stay by offering you another job in another department and when you agree, you then have to do your original job until you get a replacement on top of the new job you were given. 8. Offices are literally a mess. Holes in carpets. Black mold. Asbestos. Bathrooms are gross. 9. Parking is not great. 10. There aren’t any celebrations to raise moral. You get a dry biscuit for engineering week. Just one day for the week. 11. Inventory day sucks because you have to find every casting that has an active router on a Saturday. 12. BOPs aren’t followed nor enforced ~70% of the time, other ~30% is roughly being followed. 13. DMMs are a waste of time when the manager makes their team go instead of themselves. Team members have to do the work, the best thing management can do is just sit there and come back to the team and regurgitate what was said.