Working at TRW Automotive in Livonia, MI: 10 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Livonia, MI Area

"I used to love working for TRW."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Challenging work, engineering design and apllication."

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

"Have good references."

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

"Overtime can be mandatory without being demanded."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reduce staff turnover."

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

"Long hours, no job security, weak compensation."

"Great people but unsure about the industry future."

"Best place I worked at."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Everything was great."

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

"No dislikes."

"My goal was to retire from this company, but economic times prevented this from happening, however, I have no regrets"

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Growth was based on practical experience and not necessarily on degrees. I earned the title of Test Engineer with no degree by demonstrating practical knowledge and common sense with on the job training."

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

"Learn from everyone around you, don't be afraid to get your hands dirty, hands on experience is the best teacher."

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

"Other than benefit reductions due to economic times, which is understandable, there wasn't anything I didn't like about working at TRW."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Adopt Japanese management styles and philosophies that allow more employee involvement and participation in problem resolution and more commitment to community."

What do you like about working at TRW Automotive?

"Good Experience."

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

"No security."

"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."

"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."

"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."