Pluspunten
A paycheck (that is below market value) If you play your cards right, and you figure out whom of your non-management peers you can trust, you will make some good friends at PACCAR. I emphasize the word trust, because it takes time to figure out whom you can trust. If you accept an offer at PACCAR, especially if you are a woman, it is critical that you find your people to look out for each other and lift each other up. In general, no one at PACCAR will lift you up, but this is especially true if you identify as a woman. PACCAR men stroke each others' egos all the time. Ladies, you have to find your female peers who will look out for you.
Minpunten
All of the negative reviews you are reading on Glassdoor are true! My advice if you are a potential candidate or considering accepting an offer is to RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!! Management is incompetent and delusional. Everything they do is for show. They do not care for anyone but themselves and making money. The company is run by a narcissist psychopath chairman. The hearsay and rumors you hear about PACCAR are all true and the weirdest part is that senior management thinks it's normal, when it's not. PACCAR is the most openly racist and sexist company I have ever worked for. If you are a woman, forget advancing and moving up and pay increases. If you are a person of color, the gaps are disgustingly larger. They pretend that's not true. If you are a woman and you ask your boss for a raise because you know what your male colleague of the same grade level and years of experience is making, he will turn it around on you and will demand to know who told you about the man's salary. Even though it is completely common for employees to know and talk about each other's salaries. Turnover is out of control but directors choose to ignore it. People become managers because of nepotism and sucking up. The HR division is run by a clown who doesn't know what he's doing and his minions exist to serve him and the CEO. Teams operate lean. Not just "short staffed" but there is no rhyme or reason for anything. For a multi-billion dollar company, there are only 7 recruiters in the United States who are also involved in "projects" that quickly die without buy-in or financial investment from senior leadership. This company does not care about you, never has and never will. Even if you think they care about you, do not be fooled. I learned that the hard way. They will work and work and work you with no recognition or financial compensation. If you are a woman and you are doing a good job, your male boss MIGHT give you a minuscule raise (I emphasize the word MIGHT because it is a very slim chance, and if you do get a pay increase it is measley). But he will tell you not to tell anyone because it "will hurt others' feelings who did not get a raise." Then, they will make a big announcement about your male co-worker who got a raise. Salaries are way off market value for the Seattle area. It is a joke and no one of the education and experience level they expect would accept such a low offer, especially when you have to wear a suit and tie and a blazer and pantyhose and come into the office everyday. It is bizarre! The company intentionally failed to acknowledge BLM. In the CEO's quarterly all employee meeting, employees can submit questions to the CEO. Many people asked how they were going to respond to BLM and what they were going to say to acknowledge (the very few) employees of color. The CEO got mad and his response was that if he addressed BLM, then he would be alienating people and that PACCAR's stance is to not take sides. In other words, he didn't want his and the other white guy "OpCom" feelings to be hurt by shifting the conversation away from themselves for once and addressing an uncomfortable topic. This company is in denial about everything going on in the world outside of their prison gates and ugly old walls that are an eye-sore compared to all of the modern buildings in Bellevue. When the world was shutting down due to COVID-19, Sr. HR Directors gathered in secret and laughed and pretended like nothing was wrong. By the time they came up with a temporary work from home plan, PACCAR was the last company still coming into the office every single day, and they were defying the governor's orders. Eventually, they had to comply, and the temporary work from home schedules that took the HR Directors weeks to meet in secret about and not communicate about, went to waste because the governor closed the state and everyone had to work from home. That was the end of March/early April. They didn't talk about COVID much after that. The entire focus was to get everyone back into the office to prove to the "OpCom" that employees were still being productive. In their minds, you have to be physically present in the office to prove that you are doing your job. Their motto is "we are a work from work company." PACCAR was back at 50% capacity by June 2020 when COVID was still new and the world was in a frenzy, and in the minds of senior management, COVID was over. That is still true as the world is in year 2 of the pandemic. Employees were given "pins" to wear if they had been vaccinated, but no one has talked about the Delta variant or the fact that many employees are still afraid or have been impacted by COVID. Unless you are desperate for a job and need to accept an offer, keep looking. Or, accept the offer and continue looking for another job. If you are smart, professional and educated, technologically advanced and want to talk about the world around you outside of PACCAR, and if you are progressive, you will hate it at PACCAR.