JLR reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(3,894 total reviews)

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91% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

JLR has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,894 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The JLR 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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1.0
Jun 15, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Location - Good for graduates (on paper) - Nice canteen - Great people - Easy work/life balance (nobody really cares about your time)

Cons

- Lack of vision - Lack of roadmap - Lack of leaders - Lack of initiative - Lack of trust - Lack of honesty - Lack of processes - Lack of tools - Lack of certainty Everything advocated in slides, policies and useless "All-Hands Open Forums" with 200+ people just afraid to share their opinions, is promptly contradicted by day to day actions. HR is a disaster: always late, always wrong, always misleading. Not sure if they serve the rest of the company or themselves. All relevant decisions are taken overseas: local managers are more keen about recording hours than producing anything real or taking responsibilities. It is not clear if the claimed "research activity" is a real thing, or just time spent googling on technology fundamentals (when it is possible) considering the embarrassing low bar during the hiring process Sometimes it feels like it is more important you are there, just counting as "one more", rather than what you learn or produce (no metrics on productivity or KPIs have been ever disclosed) Engineering quality is not even comprehended, the mantra is "release anything to show something" Any ambition on personal and professional growth will be killed by an equalization toward mediocrity: talents and professionals leaves, graduates feels endorsed (that's why is good for them) It's a shame, really. If you are looking for a career change/boost, stay away.

3.0
May 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The products are fantastic. I'm lucky enough to get hands-on with a lot of them, and they genuinely are some of the best cars in the world. Some departments don't get a lot of time close to the vehicles, but fortunately I do. The work itself is also actually very interesting, and the subject matter does lend itself to you going the extra mile in order to get things right for the car.

Cons

The culture is getting increasingly toxic. Departments are becoming more 'tribal' in the face of the increasing adversity from the outside world (Brexit, the Diesel scandal, etc etc) as they try and make sure they hit 100% of their own metrics and targets and thus ensure they're out of the firing line of the senior leadership. This means that cross-departmental collaborative working is difficult, and the cars are suffering for it. Similarly, there's a tendency to hide errors or 'greenwash' (colour in all the 'red' problem numbers with 'green' to make it look better) when approaching a programme gateway because holding up a gateway is seen as considerably worse than stopping to fix the problem by senior management. As such, the problems never really go anywhere and only come out of the woodwork right at the end of a programme's development cycle, causing the entire business to run around in a panic trying to fix a myriad of issues that have 'only just appeared' right before a car is supposed to be released. Finally, while there's plenty of space to move up the ladder if you are a people-management person (which doesn't actually require any engineering knowledge) there's very little chance to move upwards in a technical role. Once you've become a Technical Specialist (equivalent to LL6, the least senior management role) there really is nowhere to go unless you stop being technical and start managing programme gateways, timing and people.

1.0
Nov 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nothing!!!!! racism is really high the only people made up to senior posts are managers own family or friends not on merit or qualification

Cons

Being an ethnic minority you will be discriminated and never promototed, the union representative will never help you except stab you in the back

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