International reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,478 total reviews)
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Mathias Carlbaum

85% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

International has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,478 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The International employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Oct 1, 2010
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Pros

Fellow comrades are all of the same opinion, so at least you're in good company. Plenty of opportunities for community goodwill. Medical benefits/costs are VERY good.

Cons

Employees walk around on eggshells because management does not have the nerve to tell you if you're performing poorly. Instead, they'd rather get ready to fire you, threaten you, and yes, cuss you out in meetings. Double standard - what's fair for one employee isn't the same for another employee, see it all the time. No work life balance - management is proud of the mantra "we do what it takes" not understanding people have spouses, wives, husbands, and kids, church, etc, and not everybody lives and breathes Navistar. Operators on the line have more clout and pull than engineers. Watched an operator call out a member of lower management and upper management took the word of the operator, and made the lower mgmt apologize to the lowlife operator who only had half the story. Corporate staff is clueless about life at the plants. Image is everything - clean and shiny floors mean more than employee morale. Opportunities for advancement are a joke - only happens if they like you and peg you on the "leadership track". Funny that they pay for operators to get accounting degrees, IT degrees, maintenance degrees but when those positions open up internally, do they promote the same people they just paid to go to school? No, they hire externally, while the operators resume their positions on the line. And lastly, I feel I have actually lost intelligence coming here. I did more, knew more, learned more at my previous position. Coming here, my job went from engineer to (while still having the title) paper pusher, lemming, brainless idiot, whose only job is to get product out the door and chase down problems no one really wants to fix. Come if you have to, but if you value your intelligence, integrity or sense of self-pride, you'll choose another company.

3.0
Sep 24, 2010

FALD

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It was good to have the opportunity to work for different departments in either two twelve month rotations or one twelve month rotation and two six month rotations.

Cons

Most of my co workers did not have any personality.

4.0
Sep 15, 2010

Great place to work, could make some improvements

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Innovative, challenging, customer driven leadership requires employees to constantly stretch and improve themselves and their output. All the available tools and technologies are available for use - there's never a time we couldn't do something because we didn't have the equipment.

Cons

Communication is severely lacking. Members of senior/executive management either fail to value straight-talk with employees or purposely decide not to share information about important decisions that will impact the employees.

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