Good for interns, retirees and wall-followers engineers - Engineer PACCAR Employee Review

1.0
19 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Something to put on your resume. If you can work at PACCAR, then any other company that you will later join will feel like heaven. Nice Technical Center. You work not just on engines ( mostly from cummins) but also on the entire truck. Close to beautiful places such as Vancouver in Canada, Oregon, Seattle, etc...

Cons

Not much smart engineers that are "Game changer" in the heavy duty industry, just couple of average "wall-follower" engineers that are riding on an old success legacy. You may find it as a great learning place If you don't know nothing about engines or your engineering skills are average at best. Full of old people and back stabbers, and if you are a woman or part of any other visible minorities, we might keep you just to display our diversity but don't expect anything else. They will make your life miserable just to make profitable, but the employees are basically modern slaves with ties and and a false idea of belonging to something big.

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5.0
30 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Wonderful internship experience. I truly enjoyed every aspect of the internship, from the people and team culture to the meaningful projects and great location. It was an incredibly positive learning experience, and I would highly recommend working there.

Cons

While the business professional dress code may not be for everyone, I personally didn’t mind it and felt it contributed to the professional environment.

1.0
15 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not much, if you want a place that's okay with mediocrity, then welcome.

Cons

They blindly follow industry trends not industry standards. We have an initiative to use AI to increase productivity, without a proper plan, without security in mind and lack of general understanding. Consistently understaffed, for example there are teams or parts if teams that have max 4 developer type roles with 36 apps or APIs to support - this has lead to inconsistent code and effort as employees are spread too thin to be able to deliver quality work. Management refuses to take responsibility for issues that arise from being understaffed. Teams are not consistent in what tools and pipelines are used causing even more confusion and delays. Double standards: they don't want to properly promote or give raises to hard workers. Upper management made it clear to direct managers that "meets expectations" was a fine thing to give... To employees doing more than their fair share of work and are doing work outside of their role since they have no one else to do it do to being understaffed.

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