Getting on/off site can take a considerable chunk out of the day. This coupled with the early starts can impact work life balance especially when needing to stay over. Overtime has to be arranged a week in advance unless it can be approved as an exceptional circumstance which is silly and should depend on the requirements of the day rather than knowing a week in advance what projects will need to be worked on out of hours. Inconsistent level of support from management with some team managers being great but other not so supportive of your career and only interested in getting their jobs done.
Not a lot of opportunities to experience the vehicles for some teams.
Finally I feel the culture in some offices at Gaydon and Whitley has caused the pace of work to be very slow and there is a lot of room for improvement here.