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Formel D

They put you through a quick training video and show you a few training cars and throw you right in the line of fire. Your first few days will be tough but once you know what you're doing the days begin to slow down and you will find yourself with a lot of free time to watch others. You will go days with seemingly nothing to do even though they give you a fancy title of a MUTILATION EXPERT. Once you leave outside of the gate of BMW no one else in the world really knows what a mutilation expert is. You will continuously have to tell people what it is: Someone that checks cars and parts for scratches, dents and scraps. The company itself is not ideal also. If you aren't a top manager no one really has the opportunity to make money. Overtime is very limited and your supervisor barely makes more money than you. If I had the opportunity to work for this company again I would definitely weigh my options first.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Layed back. Anytime i was out of work and brought a doctor's note they did not try to punish me for it. Pay is great. According to what job you was doing you had alot of fredom and nobody was watching over your back . Being in rework was my favorite. Not much training so if it took me longer to fix something nothing was ever said. Just do your job and go home.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being at BMW you had to interact with the BMW supervisors.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If i didn't know how to do something my peers around me would help me and vice versa. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Like i said they had alot of different departments ,so it depended on which department you was in.

Formel D is a decent company to work for if you don't have a family to come home to. You work 60+ hours a week and have to be on call on your off days for possibly more. I barely got to see my family, and although the pay was very good especially on the over time I just didn't enjoy not seeing them. The only other complaint would be dirty politics within the company. A lot of management will assign you with roles with very little praise to taking the load off of them, but as soon as your mess up they will be sure to point it out. When they mess up they tend to blame it on everyone but themselves. The positives there are is you can learn a lot on the job daily, and also it's fast paced at times so you can be active.

Wide range of pay within a job. Best employees make the least amount of money.  Turnover is an issue, as replacements (if approved) do not get plugged into the system until months after their predecessors are long gone. Meanwhile a staff that is short handed "covers" as best they can... Promotions are given based on "how cheap" we can place a warm body in a position rather than quality of work exhibited from an employee. Communication is non-existent. Good Ole Boy System is employed to great effect. No one below the  Technical Director is allowed to make any decisions... Not a stable work environment for stable people. I have not recommended this company to anyone..

Typical day: 9 to 12 hours, half hour lunch the other technicians are are either experience or not, the more experience Techs will be paired with those that are not, so that they can learn for the more experience, at the same hourly wage. 
What I learned: The recruiters or project managers or Supervises will lye to the contractor about the job description in order to get the tech in the project, once in the project you're stuck. Reasoning being is that majority of the individuals need to work and can't afford to leave, what got me was that I was told that the project was three months, when it only lasted three weeks or a month.  

First and foremost, the management at this company is a complete disaster. If you don’t know anything about your job and completely lack leadership skills then they will make you a manager. As a mechanic we were expected to put out 30 vans per shift with hardly any tools or support from Mercedes, no matter what. This means that vans were literally pushed out the doors for numbers. Mechanical and electrical issues were often ignored or covered up. When the numbers were not where management wanted them to be then they will cuss at you and threaten your job. The workplace is very toxic and negative. The only good thing was working 4 days on and having 4 days off. It’s not worth it at all though! Find a better opportunity!

Formel D is a very interesting company. I started as a temporary employee and now I am a full time member of the Formel D Group in a small management position. I like that Formel D looks out for potential for every employee, of course our work is project related and the contract term depends on the customers. I may got lucky at one point but Formel d also saw the potential work force coming from myself. The management is pretty good even we had a lot of changes in the past. This company is growing and I am part of it. I'm glad that they gave me the opportunity to proof myself. I see a long lasting future in this company.

The diverse work at Formel D was very interesting. However, the job often required VERY long hours. The management structure was constantly changing and it was difficult to get support and training. Since most of the work is project based, there is no job security and little effort to move employees from a finished project to new one. The company does not value or respect its employees--rather looks for the cheaper options to replace experienced, existing members of staff. They pay significantly less than competitors.

THEIR CONTRACT WAS LOST AT BMW Which figures.  No communication from office personnel to plant management. After 8 years with 5 years in supervisor role I and other dedicated supervisors were abandoned due to formel d not having any other opportunities. Office level management is very unprofessional. Classless company which was once a great company. No support. No recognition for dedicated associates. ostriches with their head in the sand is best way to describe office leadership. 

I worked for Formel D for seven months. When I first started there, the Project Manager made an agreement with me that I would not have to work on Sunday mornings because of my religious beliefs and my leadership position at my church. I agreed that was available for pretty much any other shift. When the Project Manager moved back to Germany seven months later, the Shift Leader for my shift insisted that I "cancel my church activities" and come to work on Sunday morning. They were not even willing to allow me to swap shifts with the Sunday evening person. I ended up leaving the company because of this.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Driver 16 salaries reported	$21.19 per hour
Automotive technician 11 salaries reported	$28.20 per hour
Logistics associate 4 salaries reported	$23.13 per hour
Quality assurance inspector 2 salaries reported	$26.00 per hour
Supplier quality engineer 7 salaries reported	$79,464 per year

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