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Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team

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Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(111 total reviews)

Toto Wolff

76% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 111 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.4 stars).

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111 reviews
2.0
Jul 30, 2019

An awful place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The level of commitment by employees is remarkable, especially given the culture. The pay is very competitive, hence why people don’t generally leave.

Cons

Being a championship winning team I was expecting to find extremely high levels of innovation across all functions and the best people, however what I found was a team that was arrogant, lacking efficiency, with poor performing departments and an unimaginable lack of innovation in regards to its working practices. In this day and age to witness senior level professionals display a complete lack of understanding of the benefits of modern day working practices such as flexible working is a disgrace, hence why there is minimal female representation across the team. The team operates on a disgraceful level of rewarding results/performance over behavioural standards, regardless of its ‘so called’ core behavioural standards and is in complete denial of its arrogance, truly believing that it is a humble, modest team. Senior management are grossly over inflated in regard to ego, salary and ‘old school’ male mentally. It is not a professional organisation of a modern age and an utter disgrace frankly that people are made to feel lucky to work there and often treated badly and pushed to the limits physically and mentally. If you challenge this, or are unable to maintain you are seen as, and indeed discussed as being weak. Disgusting. You should all be ashamed of the culture you have created under the guise of world champions. A culture of presenteeism with childlike behaviours and attitudes.

1.0
Nov 18, 2021
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Pros

Fast paced environment Surrounded by hard working people

Cons

Dictatorship not leadership Political management No benefit for overtime but it's expected Inexistent work-life balance No progression No training Very corporate and not a "family" Terrible compensation Race Team elitism Pathetic performance review process You would not believe the pay gap between management and skilled workers No two-way communication between employee and management Software specific: No management buy-in for software engineering The priority of what you think you should be working on will be very different from what management think. Short term "throw over the fence" delivery instead of well designed solutions. You may be working on 15+ year old technologies

1.0
Jan 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

u get salary on time...

Cons

swarming with untalented old people whose focus is to do politics and save their jobs. IT dept is the most incompetent bunch of people, there is no vision, poor leadership. There are no benefits in the company...HR promises are lie. U have to pay for everything. Managers run around the premises from meeting to meeting like headless chicken without 0 results. HR is a bunch of girls who grins without any clue. Accelerate 25 is a sham!!! Don't fall for the name... save your career, avoid it... attrition rate is already very high.

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Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team Response
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We are disappointed to read your views and your experience of your time at the team. We value all feedback from current and former employees and would be happy to discuss your concerns further should you wish to contact us. Please do contact the team’s HR department and request to speak to a Business Partner.
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