What is overtime like at Ford Motor Company?

Competitive Pay. Opportunity to be promoted and being able to move to either coast of the United States as well as jobs outside of the USA. I was currently promoted and the company moved me from Memphis ,TN to Denver Colorado. The company gave me a relocation package as well as moved all of my furniture and vehicle. The company has good benefits plus the option to buy Ford or Lincoln vehicles for a discounted price. Even though you are on Salary as a supervisor, you still get "Overtime". Whenever the employees you manage get overtime, you get to document that time and the company will compensate you depending on your salary broken down into a 40 hour pay check. For example- Salary - $85,000. $85,000/12 months=7,083.33/4weeks= $1,770.83/40 hours= $44.27 per hour; therefore, the company will pay you $44.27 for every overtime hour you document NOT time and a half.

Personally, I believe that the biggest con is the employees in the PS&L division (Warehousing supplying Dealers) are not on production or does not have a productive standard, but the supervisors have metrics to meet such as LMPH, GRID TIMES, DENIAL RATE, Inbound delivery time, etc. Some employees use this as a crutch to be "lazy" and find it okay to not fix their work assignemtns. You are not supposed to talk to Full time hourly employees about numbers or production. Some employees will ask for their union rep if you ask them about their performance. Another Con which I believe go hand and hand with the first con is working with the Union. Some comittee men are easier to work with than others, but some like to defend employees even when they are wrong. I understand it is their job to represent employees, but a real leader should correct an employee when they are in the wrong. "Work Free" environment. Employees do not have a set break time, nor do they get "breaks". Employees are able to "relieve" themselves as needed, but you know just as much as I that certain employees will take advantage of this. Some employees will carelessly take a "relief" when it is crunch time to close out a route.

Competitive Pay. Opportunity to be promoted and being able to move to either coast of the United States as well as jobs outside of the USA. I was currently promoted and the company moved me from Memphis ,TN to Denver Colorado. The company gave me a relocation package as well as moved all of my furniture and vehicle. The company has good benefits plus the option to buy Ford or Lincoln vehicles for a discounted price. Even though you are on Salary as a supervisor, you still get "Overtime". Whenever the employees you manage get overtime, you get to document that time and the company will compensate you depending on your salary broken down into a 40 hour pay check. For example- Salary - $85,000. $85,000/12 months=7,083.33/4weeks= $1,770.83/40 hours= $44.27 per hour; therefore, the company will pay you $44.27 for every overtime hour you document NOT time and a half.

Personally, I believe that the biggest con is the employees in the PS&L division (Warehousing supplying Dealers) are not on production or does not have a productive standard, but the supervisors have metrics to meet such as LMPH, GRID TIMES, DENIAL RATE, Inbound delivery time, etc. Some employees use this as a crutch to be "lazy" and find it okay to not fix their work assignemtns. You are not supposed to talk to Full time hourly employees about numbers or production. Some employees will ask for their union rep if you ask them about their performance. Another Con which I believe go hand and hand with the first con is working with the Union. Some comittee men are easier to work with than others, but some like to defend employees even when they are wrong. I understand it is their job to represent employees, but a real leader should correct an employee when they are in the wrong. "Work Free" environment. Employees do not have a set break time, nor do they get "breaks". Employees are able to "relieve" themselves as needed, but you know just as much as I that certain employees will take advantage of this. Some employees will carelessly take a "relief" when it is crunch time to close out a route.

Great benefits and bonuses. Good engineering work.

Limited overtime pay, long hours, traditional engineering, need updated methods.

Pay and benefits are better than most similar jobs.p

Mandatory overtime with little time off. Horrible, unethical management.

Get paid overtime for anything over 8 hours and weekends

Lacks culture, lots of red tape to do anything

Free coffee in the office, free parking:)

Decisions on who will be laidoff is based on “green squares” in github. So instead of developing a good product, people learn how to get maximum “green squares”. Discrimination of full time contractors, for example all permanent full time employes are getting the paid Christmas vacation, but full time contractors are getting forced non-paid vacation at that time.

You will receive good pay and benefits.

Long hours switching shifts constantly every 3 months. Covering others on cross shifts and weekends mandatory overtime either you will start extremely early in the morning or end extremely early the next morning. Regardless of the times you agree to the overtime if you don’t except every hour they ask of you, you will be labeled as not being a team player who never comes to work even though that’s not your shift or responsibility. As in a lot of companies they have favorites and move the preferred people regardless of talent into better positions. Absolutely no work life balance. Only stress and sleeplessness. This position isn’t for most definitely not for those with young children you rarely see them or participate in most of there events. Management is extremely biased and many still haven’t shaken that old disrespectful attitude.

The salary and cafeteria benefits. Overall nice co-workers.

In terms of benefits or human compassion, this company lacks it all. They completely removed any possibility of working remotely (even for limited periods of time), even for expats who would travel back home to visit doctors or family. 4 days in-office became mandatory and you couldn't be excused unless you presented a doctor's note and were forced to take sick leave or a holiday. They also removed medical insurance as an employee's benefit. Leaving work early for any emergency or errand also became problematic, as the management and HR argued over it. Not to mention that maternity rights became a negotiaton, rather than a basic human right for some of my ex-colleagues who were planning on becoming mothers.

Infrastructure, Good pay and brand value

There is absolutely no proper process in place. The company claims to follow Agile, but clearly has no understanding of Agile principles—everything is handled in a chaotic, pseudo-waterfall manner while pretending otherwise. The work environment is extremely high-pressure for no valid business reason. Management constantly pushes unnecessary urgency just to satisfy their own internal or personal goals, not actual project needs. Work-life balance is non-existent. Personal time is not respected at all. Employees are subtly (and sometimes directly) pressured to work weekends, including Saturdays, without any overtime pay or compensatory off. Even taking leave becomes an issue, which reflects a very unhealthy culture. There is excessive micromanagement. Something as simple as a daily stand-up can stretch to an hour for a small team, which completely defeats its purpose and wastes valuable time. From a technical and operational standpoint, things are equally bad: No clear release process No proper environment management No dedicated QA/testing team, forcing developers to test their own code, which inevitably leads to defects and instability Developers are expected to handle everything end-to-end—development, testing, CI/CD, migrations, and releases—without proper support On top of this, there are constant unnecessary status updates and interruptions, adding to the inefficiency and frustration. Overall, this is a highly disorganized, stressful, and unsustainable work environment. Anyone considering joining should think twice unless they are prepared to deal with poor processes, lack of structure, and zero respect for personal time.

Some coworkers are smart and fun. Benefits are mostly good. Middle management is mostly made up of reasonable people. They do pay overtime unlike most salaried positions.

No real career progression, management structure constantly changing with no real reason why. I hated the work culture. I felt like I went backwards in my career taking this job, as it felt more like construction management rather than process engineering or battery manufacturing. I feel I didn’t learn much. Also, I think leadership doesn’t understand the EV market.