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Harley-Davidson, Inc.

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It's a job, you might like it or not - Project Manager Harley-Davidson, Inc. Employee Review

3.0
8 Sept 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Paid time off is pretty good. 3 weeks vacation when you start. 4 weeks vacation after five years. There is a winter shutdown each year, which is about 1.5 weeks (so you can be home when kids are on winter break). Discount on motorcycles and merchandise. Casual workplace. Opportunities for training. Pay seems pretty decent for my job category in this area. If you like motorcycles, obviously this is the place to be. Sometimes you can get involved with events.

Cons

Some pockets within the company suck (such as mine). Some really great leaders have been removed from the company during the layoffs or have just moved on. Seems that they are looking for leaders that grind people down to get 'results', rather than appreciating inspirational leaders that build people up. They seem to value leaders who run the business like a machine. And while leadership 'talks about' how they care about the workers, there really are no warm fuzzies left anymore. The company had a great 'throwback' culture which was fun and interesting. Felt like family. But now it is just 'another company' with declining culture and evaporating benefits. They do a Q12 survey to see how well people are engaged, but they take the results into a backroom and try to mind-read what the workers want, rather than directly asking employees how to improve conditions. The company talks about everyone being a leader, but that seems to have become license for aggressive people to stomp on everyone else.

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5.0
29 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good culture, fun environment, room to grow

Cons

a lot of leadership changes lately

2.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Flexibility with schedule allowing for a good work/life balance - Great people to work with - Brand recognition

Cons

-Leadership is in a constant state change which also provides instability of the strategy. - New CEO brings "new" products and promises but if you look back over the past few 5 year strategic plans, very little changes. - Financially struggling to make a profit - Employees are not rewarded based on performance. IF there is a financial increase to base pay everyone gets the same amount. There are no merit increases. And they haven't paid out a bonus in a couple of years.

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