Pros
Some good people in and below middle management.
Kontras
15-20% yearly attrition rate in Engineering and Purchasing tells you all you need to know. CEO literally told all of purchasing at the town hall they are replaceable and to leave if they don't like zero flexibility (both hours and holiday). CEO tries to gaslight people talking about fairness with the shop floor staff whilst spending more time at the JCB golf course than the office, he is a bully through and through and shows in culture at jcb. Yes man culture leads to promotion so all the wrong people who have zero integrity, then blame culture from top down so problems are hidden. No senior manager has any backbone or integrity to challenge ludicrous decisions. All senior leadership is JCB born and bread who has an awful track record of late delivery but expect even tighter deadlines form Engineering who face ever increasing complexity. Completely delusional project management adding task on top of task whilst been woefully under resourced. Poor business decisions to satisfy whims of the directors. Start projects, cancel projects, expect employees to make up for poor planning. Used to be interesting place to work but inflexible company, now going from bad to worse and going on a downward spiral with staff motivation at rock bottom.