machine operator

aircraft mechanic

material handler

maintenance person

software engineer

Panasonic

Pros: Fair pay depends on your position, very productive, great benefits, free shuttle bus, bonuses, annual christmas party. Different ethnicities which is nice. 

Cons: It’s far out and can be quite a drive especially if there’s traffic and if it’s snowing but that also depends on where you live. If you’re from fernley, then it’s closer. Plus 12 hr shift..well there’s 10 and 8 hr shifts depending on your position. 

Based on experience/opinion: 

Moving up there requires you to have that title,  so for example: you’re applying for technician role and let’s say you’re a QC II but you have the potential because you are already going beyond your tasks/your role means you’re learning and already shadowing the technician at times. And let’s say you decided to apply for that tech role…Based on experience, I was denied because i did not meet their requirement of having that title role to begin with. Of course, 
 I understand that it’s easier to train people who are already experienced in that role and some have the degree. My point is there’s more than just having that title and experience as a tech cos you can be a tech at a different place and here it’s totally different….You have to actually understand how different departments work and I think by actually being the machine operator there yourself because when you actually get to operate these machines yourself… you troubleshoot when issues arise and so much more. Honestly, I got a little discouraged when i got rejected but immediately thought to myself that it’s okay. Just gotta assess my options and move forward. My opinion is, people who invest time to learn other things that’s not their role during downtime or if there’s extra time to learn other job roles such as material handling, basic technician job like replacing bearings and gaining knowledge. But, of course with the shift lead’s/supervisor’s consent that it’s okay to assist/learn on those areas. I think people who are always willing to learn and actually investing time….always going beyond behind closed doors are the ones who have the highest potential. Why? Because again, they’re genuine learners who will always strive to be better than yesterday which means very beneficial. They’re just hardworking people who gain as much knowledge as they can to expand and move up and really contribute to the company.  If you’re just going to look at people who have the title then where’s the growth there? Reading the whole resume and actually breaking it down..really analyzing this person’s experiences and with that, you’ll see these person’s character traits that will provide you clarity what this person can actually offer. And not just judge the resume by the first thing you see which was the job title. Some would just do their required tasks and not more than that..not without a salary raise or hourly raise. It just says a lot on the person’s character that this is them in and out of their work. People at work do need to work their way up because it’d be unfair to people who have the title and experiences and degree if they’re not prioritize to be hired and of course that would mean,  less training means, more time for the company. Of course people with the title and experiences earned that title because they worked hard for it. I’m just sayin that people who are always pushing through and beyond should also be given a shot. ✨ People like these are valuable to your company. Behind closed doors, they’re the ones who work above and beyond and they actually stick around for long. 



I worked at this company during the startup phase of its new plant, and my experience was very mixed.

The company talks a lot about building a high-performance culture, but in practice, that isn’t always carried through. Some leaders are supportive and set a good example, but others rely more on intimidation than guidance, which creates inconsistency and frustration. Accountability is a real issue—expectations aren’t applied evenly, and employees often feel the effects of that.

A typical day is very busy and can change quickly, so adaptability is important. The environment can also be stressful, but one positive is that immediate teams tend to collaborate well with each other.

Training was fairly strong at first, with a structured orientation and hands-on SOP review, but once the plant opened, the process became less clear. Ongoing construction means employees still wear full safety gear every day and park in a gravel lot that requires a long walk to the warehouse, which is frustrating in bad weather.

Safety was one of my biggest concerns. Equipment standards were scaled back over time, and in my opinion, the protection provided for employees working around hazardous chemicals isn’t what it should be. That caused a lot of worry among staff and contributed to lower trust in leadership.

Another challenge is how unstructured the work can feel. There were times when employees were told to stay out of sight rather than given meaningful tasks, which left shifts unproductive. That lack of direction hurts morale and makes it harder to feel engaged.

What I liked:

The pay structure is progressive, with clear opportunities to earn more.

Night shifts come with a $2 differential.

A 10% holiday bonus is a nice benefit.

Health insurance is solid, and dental/vision are at least available.


What I disliked:

Leadership accountability and professionalism need serious improvement.

Safety protocols and equipment felt downgraded instead of strengthened.

Parking and site access are inconvenient.

Work can be repetitive, unstructured, and at times, unproductive.


Overall, I think the company has potential if it commits to holding managers accountable, prioritizing safety, and giving employees more structure and meaningful work. Until then, the culture will likely feel inconsistent and frustrating.

What a terrible place to work. The actual company is good and it has lots of potential to be much better. The management is so horrible that no words that can describe it. Supervisors do not know what they are doing nor care about what they are doing. Not sure how they got hired to be a supervisor but it made working there unbearable. The HR department is really bad too. I filed a complaint against someone who was creating a hostile work environment and the HR lost my paperwork that I submitted so I had to fill out another complaint after 5 months of them not attending to many issues. They promise to pay you for incentive but then they don't and you basically have to pull your teeth out to be able to find out what happened and to get your money. The promotion process is a joke, basically you have to be a suck up and buddy with the supervisors to get any promotions, hard work, attitude, and attendance doesn't apply unfortunately. The management does everything backwards that a good successful company does. The pay is competitive and you can work a lot of overtime hours if you like, that's about  the only good thing about the company. You can make good money if you work 6 days a week 12 hours shifts but you will get burned out after a few months. The company preaches about safety being a number one priority which is not true at all, its only for the show. My advice to you is stay away from this terrible mismanaged company unless you want to make a lot of money fast. My advice is to work there for up to a year and work a lot of overtime hours and then find a better company which shouldn't be so hard to do. The recruitment office is a joke as well,  they will take an 18 year old kid with no prior experience and make them a Lead who is in charge of 10-14 people and on the other hand they will take a person who has lot of knowledge and experience and make them an entry level operator. It is such a joke. There are a lot of chemicals in this gigafactory and the safety equipment cant's possibly protect you from all of the chemicals. It is a matter of time when people will start developing cancer and other diseases.  Stay away from this company!

Winding, material handling, ARP, worst department to work for. No proper training,  no organization,  lazy & power tripping coworkers who set NO example. New people stand around not knowing what to do. Established coworkers are greedy, lazy, and have no team effort ethics or knowledge.  Equipment like the donstar is outdated,  always broken down. You got the same coworkers hogging any good equipment. Machine operators on the lines can be just as lazy and annoying to look at especially if you are the runner for material.  They can be rude, lazy and seemingly want to make your experience harder.  If your looking for empty carts, they are in the machine while the operator is on their phone, snoozing, staring into space,  or chit chatting away with other operators.  You have Machine Techs who are just as rude and impolite. If you speak to your lead or supervisor,  they don't care about what you have to complain about. I've made my concerns known, and nothing gets done about it. Same coworkers still getting away with their laziness, power trip, and lack of team work. I have made friends with my work ethics, and same complaints. This place does not acknowledge true hard work or anyone trying to improve the area.  I've tried to make a team effort with some of my coworkers and they look at you like you're telling them what to do. Lots of negative, lazy people. They avoid work by walking around, constantly going to the restroom, going to other floors, or even doing the easiest work that is prepping the material, laying low on the radar. You have big guys avoiding any hard work. Its ridiculous. Supervision is out of sight. No disciplinary actions or rewarding environment. You have a lot people working high too. If you want to work overtime, you have to be there your entire shift schedule no matter what. That's unfair if you genuinely couldn't make it to work. Recently,  they extended the time for us to clock out at the end of shift. No work life balance. This place will drive you mad if you're a true hard worker with a sense of collaboration and problem solving engagement. Don't waste your time. 

I worked as an ARP machine operator on nights. When my group of new hires walked into our work area, we were left to figure out what our job was. We stood around waiting for direction.  I decided to approach other workers. I asked them questions as to what I was supposed to do. The manager, leads/pocs and trainers are mediocre.  You have some good, decent employees, and then you have many rude, dgaf, lazy employees who pretend to work to get a paycheck. The new hires who were hired to work as ARP machine operators couldn't get certified and trained on the arp for weeks! We were doing material handler work. I understand it would be essential to understand the other job functions but they had their material handlers already. And those material handlers were MIA or goofing off somewhere else. I had to go off independently just get trained on the arp instead of waiting around every night without a definite answer from my manager and lead. Once you're trained, you find out they have poor equipment.  The donstars are constantly breaking down, and any good ones are always taken by the operators who feel entitled. In cathode anode areas, you have people who feel like they own it all and look down upon you. And people who take off to hide in the restrooms, sneak outside, anything to avoid work.  I've seen it. The phone usage on the job  is ridiculous there. There is no sense of teamwork. If you have complaints, they fall onto deaf ears. The machine operators you meet on the floor are hardly any better. Lots of kids goofing around, on their phones,  not working or paying attention to their machines. As a material handler,  you provide material to those machine operators.  If you can't find empty carts, that's because they are still in the machines that those lazy operators aren't paying attention to. No team effort. The whole department is embarrassing.  

Panasonic Avionics is an extremely myopic and dysfunction company. The culture here is the biggest offender, eclipsing other issues like poor products and below average compensation. Almost every department operates as an island with little communication and collaboration with outsiders. Despite years of promises from the C level, there has never been a coordinated effort to combat the issue of siloing and there likely never will be. From this core failure comes a whole host of other issues like lack of innovation, incompetent leaders and employees, low morale, and attrition.


Don't expect any better from your direct manager or middle management either. They have no interest in growing your skills or career. Prepare yourself for a one sided relationship where you tread water performing tasks of dubious value while your manager ignores your input. Many in the company are openly hostile to innovation and new technologies, and projects are constantly stonewalled due to lack of interdepartmental communication and a generally under skilled workforce. This lack of opportunities builds up over time and in a year or two you will find your personal development falling behind that of your peers at other, more functional companies.


Because of the above mentioned problems, day to day life at PAC is sad and draining. Low level employees perform their Sisyphean duties for years and in many cases decades without any opportunities for advancement. Managers will talk negatively about others in the company behind their backs, especially during meetings. My own was quite fond of this venting, and would even do it about their own direct reports.


PAC is an insidious trap where I have seen many intelligent and kind people waste their best years. Everyday I am glad to be free of it. Do not work here.

The hours are very long and you're on your feet the entire shift.  Shift leads are not given enough authority to do their jobs effectively.  Workers disappear off the floor for an hour at a time, and no one can do or say anything about it.  Leaving their position for the other workers to cover (or not).  And shift leads can't do anything about it.  There are S.O.P.'s in place, but no one seems to know what they are because there's no real hands on training.  Workers are given guidelines to follow and then sent to their lines for the other workers to take up the training departments slack.  I joined PENA because they proposed  a high quality product (batteries for electric cars).  A year ago, quality was king, now it's all about quotas. Attendance holds more weight than quality.  HR is not connecting with the employees.  They do not look at your talents and place you accordingly.  They only place workers where they need to fill numbers.  You may be an experienced maintenance technician, but they'll place you in material handling (entry level position) because that's where they need bodies...And they don't care about your shift preferences either.  No pay raises, just cost of living raises when upper management feels like it.  The rate you're hired at is the rate you'll stay unless promoted.  It's very difficult communicating with the Japanese technical assistants as well.  The best you can hope for is Google Translator on your cell phone....but don't get caught on the floor with your cell phone because they can fire you for that (depending on your supervisors' attitude).  If you are an independent worker, self starter, quick learner, don't mind long hours, and working in eighty degrees year round, with over time the pay is pretty good.  An array of healthcare plans are provided and really are pretty good.

I applied for the company believing in their ideals of a greener future and promise of advancement opportunities. So much that I took a lower position than what I qualify for, left my house, family and newly married wife to move out to Reno for the job. I have over 9 years of experience as an aircraft maintainer and 5 years as a supervisor and I was never even approach about advancement while they hired on 6 unqualified "Leads" who knows nothing about the machines and the operations. One of the job description of a "Lead" is to be knowledgeable of whatever process they were leading so that they can provide instructions for the operators if needed. However, not only do they know nothing and are of no help, they even come up with policies that slows down the operations. For example, a good set of tweezers is essential for running the machines, but because they hired unqualified people as operators, these operators end up damaging the machines with their tweezers. But instead of training those operators and coming up with set procedures regarding the use of the tweezers, they ban the use of tweezers in the shop. You need to stop and get a Japanese technical assistant (TA) to fix the machines every time it has a jamming issue. A tool, no matter what it is, is useful if used correctly, and a possible hazard if used incorrectly. You don't take away someone's tool and expect higher production numbers. If the tweezers are not needed for the job then why do all the TAs have it? I am currently looking for another job near my house. I gave up too much for this.

I started as an entry-level machine operator in Winding and worked my way up to maintenance tech III. That's 6 promotions in 4 years. I liked being in maintenance, lots of problem-solving and critical thinking. I could have gone further into controls or management if I didn't want to change careers. If you work hard, are a team player, and keep your attendance in good standing it's a great place to grow and move up. They want their employees to stay long-term. Some of the better benefits I've had, but not the best. The most diverse group of people I've ever worked with, you will work with people from all different backgrounds and walks of life! I enjoyed working with management and I still keep in touch with most of them. They allowed unlimited overtime that was never forced, but I believe that policy has changed. I'm sure overtime is still permitted though, just not unlimited. I paid off all my debt by picking up extra shifts. 

Downsides were the 12-hour shifts with the rotating 2/2/3 schedule on days. Nights are on a 3/4, 4/3 schedule. I hated working every other weekend. You only work 6 months out of the year, but you're there for 14 hours on your work days, and that doesn't include the 30-45 minute commute each way. Traffic can get awful during the winter and accidents on 80 can quadruple the time to get home. You have to wear PPE - gown, mask, safety glasses, bump cap, latex gloves, steel-toed shoes and a hair net. If you work with the chemicals you have to wear a suit that looks like you're an astronaut.  But you get paid more. 

If I wanted to stay in the manufacturing industry I would still be working here, but ultimately I wanted to change careers.

Be prepared to not have a home life since shifts are 12 hours long , I currently work here over night shifts 6:30pm to 7:00am sometimes longer in cathode coating/machine operator. management are terrible, coworkers think there all better than you since if you come in new your screwed because the only people that stick around here are people that have been here for years , they hate training since it’s peer teach peer environment and you don’t have dedicated trainers , so everything is basically self thought , people are rude beyond belief , and if you speak out against it to Panasonic HR or supervisors it all gets swept under the rug. Worse than a high school environment. Stay away from coating/machine operator it’s hands down the worst process to get into, AMO’s act like there bosses and are on a power trip , supervisors love pointing fingers and not taking accountability and hand out write ups like candy.  attendance policy is a joke and they are constantly changing it in there favor, constantly making it harder to use your earned pto and vacation days , the only reason I still work here is because they offer there own buses since I don’t have reliable transportation. If you have any other options to work somewhere I’d take it, this place is by far not worth the stress and sacrifices to your home life, on top of that your nothing but a number to this company absolutely no job security and they will get rid of you in a heartbeat while protecting there management and senior workers Panasonic is absolutely a joke and im counting the days I can get out of here 

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