TRW Automotive Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great at the time, but business is declining."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Opportunity to excel."

What don't you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Entered at a time of declining market."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"It was a well organized busy office so no down time, which I like. Always a new challenge, and travelling was nice."

What don't you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"I have nothing bad I can say."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I had great manager."

"TRW is a great place to work if they were still busy!!"

"Nice place to work but limited in all aspects."

"Corporate bureaucracy run rampant."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Relatively modern technology to work with, Making automotive safety products is very rewarding."

What don't you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Generally feel unappreciated, automotive world is not what you expect as far as engineering development is concerned."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Possibly blurring the lines between the management levels would greatly increase efficiency and communication."

"Great place to work."

"TRW is still in 19th century."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Very little anymore."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Waste of time to get anything in writing. They change it anytime they want and take away anything they promised. Hard to give advice besides, look at more progressive and better managed companies."

What don't you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Lack of technical expertise, inefficiency, reduced compensation, no care for employee morale or needs, working environment, no growth, management cares about themselves and not about employees or the company, lack of talent, not doing things right the first time, repeating the same mistakes over and over, and the list goes on..."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get new managers at lower level, offer opportunity to senior level and talented technical people, encourage innovation and reward, improve working environment for high level technical people, better compensate, listen to dissenting technical opinions, not to make unnecessary mistakes, lay off low level managers who are inexperienced technically, have too many issues with employees, do not show record of fast and efficient product development, who are absent from work too often, treat technical people with proper respect and appreciation, because they drive product development forward."

"Great place to work."

"TRW EPI, SLO Division. Good place to work. Moved operation to Colorado."

"I was a co-op at TRW."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"I worked with embedded control systems and I find embedded software design very interesting. I was given the responsibility of a junior engineering while being a co-op, this provided me with the opportunity to learn much about the position of a full time design engineer."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Yes, it helps if you are from Stanford or Cornell. =)"

What don't you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"They are an automotive supplier and because of the depressed economy in the area, the morale at the company was down. They were experiencing rounds of layoffs and many of the employees felt like their future was bleak."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the ideas/suggestions of the engineers working on the project."

"Great company."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Product was interesting."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good company."

What don't you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Sold too many times."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stay consistent."

"This company was actually based out of Livonia, not Sterling Heights. It was a great place to work, it's just too bad that the economy caused them to lay off so many good engineers."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"The people were very professional, and they strived very hard to keep everyone working towards the same goals."

What don't you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"I was promised a direct hire position after 2 months of contract employment, the contract employment lasted 14 months and I was laid off before going direct."

"Good place to work, salary was slightly un-competitive."

"The plant was closed."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"It was there."

What don't you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Union."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Plan for longer term goals and the future of the company."

"Nice place."