Q&A With Ford Motor Company Employees

Business/Casual

Dress nice just like you would for any and all interviews.

They are great.

Great benefits and great pay

Employees value the benefits including vehicle purchase discounts.

Yes at the beginning.

Yes intensively

By the books and very professionally

The test took all day

Structured interviews typically 20min duration contained within assessment center process.

A few hours

I took a few weeks and I met with the hiring manager

Upper management, a couple weeks

I had a panel of three interviewers; it took three weeks or so to hear back

4 - 10 hr days

Quite flexible, start/end of day can vary at personal discression. Delivery is everything, can mean working unsocial hours if required.

Depends on your supervisor/management

No work from home

Tools are provided but depends on position. Feasiable.

It depends on the type of work being done, your supervisor, and the location. Office buildings with meetings mostly occurring online, through WebEx, allow for more latitude as far as working from home. I know of several employees that work about 2 days in the office and three days from home with no loss of productivity.

Apply true systems thinking, have a real Road to Rig to Math strategy and implement nimbly. Current approach is all or nothing - need to phase in significant process changes, adopt then standardize then eliminate old business as usual approach.

Very proud of Ford's diversity. Lunch today I could see people from across the world either visiting or based here, harmoniously integrated. Very open, people's values are respected.

Fair at best

Very positive and generally supportive and helpful. When retiring people always say it's their coworkers that they most value.

Respectful

Friendly, helpful, and competent.

Health, vision, dental and profit sharing.

Medical, dental, optical

Health, optical, dental, and life insurance. Also, 401K matching, profit sharing, and stock availability.

Research the position, have relevant experience to offer, demonstrate ability to go the extra mile, really want the job.

Be honest with yourself; ask out-of-the-box questions

Come prepared, be punctual, be professional. Have real-life examples to expand on your skills as stated in your resume. If you don't know an answer, say "I don't know." rather than bluster your way through; it's a legitimate, and honest answer.

A lot more intense and thorough

Interviewers are more personable

Much more difficult. The level of detail required for complete answers was much more than I'd ever had in an interview prior.

I think I did good on my interview I didn't really have any difficult questions

No difficult questions

If you were a manager and had a conflict with an employee, how would you handle it.

SUVs

IT is the fastest growing segment of Ford at the moment. The only difficulty I can see is trying to keep up with what consumers want in a vehicle.

data mining is growing fastest. difficulty growing core business as the market is stagnant. need to focus on emerging tech (which is happening at Ford.)

Discount for buying Ford vehicles.

Discounts with vendors like Dell and Verizon, deals on movie and amusement park tickets, and generous profit sharing.

Restricted Stock Units for higher level employees, two community service days.

Open plan

Generally offices for upper management and cubicles, or work groups, for everyone else with conference rooms and small-group gathering areas available to all.

multiple buildings, each has a different layout. some have cubes and offices, some are completely open with tiny desks for mobile employees.

Enter with a splash and push.

That I could have joined earlier than I did.

That promotions would be slow.

We have a coffee bar, is that what you mean?

Happy but productive.

corporatey. not fun like Google or Apple.

Competency is paramount.

On quality of work and production

by committee or one or two really strong managers at the level to where I am. Above my level, you need strong support by several above you.

Once a year at minimum, also at promotions.

generally annually with a few exceptions, but the raises aren't very big.

The interaction I have

Being able to do work I love.

the people who work here. we have an incredibly talented pool of people and I am constantly reminded of that when I have to interact with the general public.