Worst place I've ever worked... - Avis employé Engineer Ride Control

Worked as an Engineering Intern for about 6 months. VERY engaged with interns (unlike a lot of auto companies). Not just an overpaid delivery boy/gopher, they make sure you are actually learning and give you REAL assignments that actually contribute to the success of the company. As always you get a good bit of excel/administrative tasks like everywhere, but you actually get alot of time hands on with the parts performing actual engineering tasks like failure analysis, root causing and PV/DV stuff, highly highly recommend to interns looking to actually grow they're skillset and not just collect a paycheck. Pay for interns is very competitive for the area. Company atmosphere is awesome, everyone is joking all the time and even when they're behind on deadlines the teams never let it get them down. Company does regular BBQs and picnics and stuff like that to keep the employees engaged. Definitely working hard to keep employees happy.

No cons for an intern, intern life was great here. As for salaried engineers; they seemed to be having trouble keeping engineers while I was there. In the 6 months I was present it seemed that almost 80% of the engineers in the building had left and only about 60% were replaced with new hires (they were adamantly working to continue hiring the remaining 20% when I left, they just hadn't landed anyone yet). Considering how awesome the work atmosphere is, I can only assume this was due to compensation that was not competitive to other companies in the area (although as an intern I can't be sure as I don't know what the engineers made). It seemed like engineers were just using the company as a place to gain income while they searched for something with better pay.

Some good people. Mildly rewarding when you manage to get something accomplished. Flexible schedule.

Work is mildly rewarding. Fellow employees are usually good to work with but overall strategy and direction is completely absent from the top company leadership. People are constantly doing menial reports, analysis, and meeting after meeting to try and get the simplest things accomplished and appease one person. Constant explaining ,proving, reporting , analyzing. It’s a “running around in circles” mentality. All due to a single person at the top who’s condescending and thinks he knows it all. This has put overall moral in the toilet. The only next step is putting it in the sewer. Company leadership needs a drastic change and fast since no one has any respect for the guy and the company is slowly losing money.