Pros
JLR is a big company so I only speak for the office where I am based. There are several things that are just great about JLR:
- clear paths for individuals to succeed - if you work hard and add value you can be promoted fairly quickly
- fantastic supportive and smart colleagues
- good salary and perks
- work from home for most days at the moment
- good work-life balance - it's important to do the work, but there is no expectation to do long hours unless if you want to
- good mid-term vision where we want to go with projects with realistic timelines
- really good management that looks after my team (they're proper enablers that push away lots of noise from the team)
- 20% time for developing extra skills, typically related to the projects you work on or for improving processes etc.
- lots of interesting projects around, though an individual will mostly work on one
- us of up to date software engineering practices and methods, lots of focus is put on quality
In addition, since the new CEO started a lot has shifted towards digital technology so it's a really good time to be joining to JLR.
Cons
Being a big company it has some standard cons:
- depending what team you end up things may not be as good as in other teams
- lots of things are going on across the company so it is difficult to get a big picture and how different things fit together
