Yazaki reviews

Improper work load distribution No recognition to hard workers Inefficient Middle management

I'm sad to say that the cons far outweigh the pros. Compensation wise, it's generally below the market. The company might make adjustments to bring salaries up to market level, but these occur every 4-5 years during which many employees flee to companies where they are better compensated. A very common situation is that of a high-performing, loyal employee asking for a decent and fair rise, having it denied, leaving to a better paying company, only for management to replace him/her with an outside hire that costs as twice or even thrice the amount and has nowhere near the same experience. There is a lot of nepotism and patronage, with only those in close friendship with the Engineering Manager seeing actual promotions and more than healthy salary rises. The engineering budget is shadily administered, with the Engineering Manager even overriding the decisions of Operational Managers in the U.S. to block necessary business trips, trainings or equipment purchases to save on the office expenses. It is no myth: when the Engineering Manager is able to keep expenses under the budget, HQ awards him with an additional juicy compensation. Since the Engineering Manager is directly responsible for the development of the office, there are many things to say about his performance. He has a very difficult time trying to be honest. Lies are common tool he uses to persuade his subordinates and less experienced engineers to agree with him. He is amazingly convincing until you get to know him and his strategies. Lots of unfulfilled promises of salary rises and career growth only to keep people at ease. Once he sees someone on the verge of jumping out of the ship, he might finally give that employee a fair compensation to make him/her stay... and then the cycle repeats. Lots of people with questionable skills and performance being hired, kept and promoted because of their close relationship to the Engineering Manager and for participating and covering his shady practices. Unfortunately rules and punishment are not enforced equally. The Engineering Manager might defend to death his allies for misbehavior, but not even move a finger for other neutral but good performing employees with clean histories. These issues create a lot of discomfort and tiredness in the people that remain there for a few years and start finding out about the reality behind curtains. Due to these, there's a high staff turnover rate, which has a direct negative output in the experience level of the office and causes HQ to reduce the amount of work and responsibility level being entrusted to the office. Every 2-3 years a good amount of experienced employees leave and the company goes several steps backwards. Basically, in order to succeed in this company, the most important thing is not to be an excellent and well prepared engineer - though it helps -, but to get along with the Engineering Manager, support him under any circumstance - right or wrong - and to demonstrate that you're a valuable asset to his growth more than the company's. Yes, just like a reflection of Mexico's society values and our beloved politicians, the management of this office is a perfect example of poor professional ethics and why we haven't been able to beat the corruption and abuse of power that lessen so much the development of this country. Even more unfortunately, the upper management in the U.S. is knowledgeable of the situation and won't do a thing because they only seem to care about having a cheap-labor engineering office and keeping the budget as low as possible to generate the as much profit as possible and distribute it mainly among the employees in the U.S. (where the conditions are way, way different).