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Magna International

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Magna International reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(3,173 total reviews)
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Seetarama (Swamy) Kotagiri

76% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Magna International has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,173 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Magna International employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
5.0
Oct 13, 2017

Employee Centric

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Tremendous efforts put forth to make sure the production personnel are comfortable and happy with the work environment. Corporate and Division level engineer groups focus heavily on R&D to bring innovation into the production facilities

Cons

Potentially long work hours. Technical groups have in the past been overlooked on QOL issues.

1.0
Feb 18, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits and RRSP contribution match.

Cons

I worked at this company for a very short period of time. Right from the first week that I joined, I thought to myself "what did I do". There is no regard to health and safety of the employee. The only reason the company has a health and safety rep is to ensure the company does not get sued. Yet in the summer when the temperatures inside hit 45+ Celsius you are still expected to work. There is horrible ventilation and you inhale cancerous fumes. Gas forklifts are operated inside the building with this horrible ventilation. Washrooms are atrocious. Cafeteria was disgusting. The office for the support staff was next to the manufacturing floor with a door that didn't lock. It was extremely loud in there with very inconsistent temperatures. Most people working here are just riding the curve and waiting for retirement. It is an aging workforce and yet the company cannot keep the young generation to stay. Forget about voicing your opinion. If management tells you to do something and you question it or propose something different, you might as well just start packing your bags. Very few people are willing to help you. Most of the others just play dumb and say I don't know and you just end up chasing loose ends when trying to obtain information. One particular person in HR is probably the most unprofessional HR person I have dealt with. The offer package did not include the basic stuff, such as benefits. Just the salary and vacation and the person was communicating the offer through SMS as opposed to email. I have never seen this much turn over in a company. People are constantly getting re-shuffled in roles. The quality policy in the company is non-existent. You know you are building scrap on the lines, but the operators don't and they will just keep building it. It's just one big blame game, people int here just want to find someone to blame. The level of unprofessionalism that I have seen is unbelievable. Some supervisors and managers were bosses and not leaders. Forget about worklife balance. I was told by HR that I am "expected" to work long hours, yet when you ask about overtime pay the answer is going to be no. Yet the operators are making more than the support team with all the over time. The company has potential but there is some serious issues that need to addressed starting from corporate. There needs to be an intense cleaning process of most of the senior people in there. If you think you can walk in a make a difference, forget about it. Save yourself the hassle.

2.0
May 5, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The wages are good, stable income, good hours, and strong benefits for permanent employees.

Cons

The management is highly narcissistic, and they promote workplace mobbing to the highest degree. Hence creating a toxic environment. They victimize vulnerable whistle blowers who report harassment/abuse, and make their lives a living nightmare in a passively aggressive manner. They try to destroy your self-esteem and reputation by running a smear campaign behind your back, and make others believe you're crazy. They emotionally torture you into depression, as an attempt to get you to quit or act out in an aggressive manner, which may lead to a firing. I reported instances of mobbing and verbal abuse on behalf of a co-worker to HR. Coworkers started avoiding me, people stopped sitting next to me during lunch. A few months later, my car started getting vandalized with scratches, or individuals started leaving their trash on my windshield. I reported it to the security team, and they apparently saw nothing on the cameras. My car is often parked very close to the plant where cameras can see everything. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is much more I can say...

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