Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd Employee Reviews

Pay was excellent the hours wasn’t bad but management was poor. Often young inexperienced staff bumped up to group leader positions due to being favourites then causing upset to good staff because of zero management skills.Wouldn’t work there again. Gave us a huge pay rise in January then laid 100 people off in February. Poorly ran company.

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Walk away and look elsewhere

technician (Former Employee) - Saint Athan - 1 December 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Shocking company to work for doesn’t care about employees of the quality of there cars just flung together What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Constant lies never knew what was happening don’t waste your time no long term prospects What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Very poor management lots of backstabbing

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Insights into Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd

Based on 61 survey responses

What people like

Clear sense of purpose
Fair pay for job

Areas for improvement

Support from manager
Time and location flexibility
Sense of belonging

Stay clear not worth it if you don’t fit in

Trimmer (Former Employee) - Gaydon - 21 October 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Loved the job but not the place & peopleWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?Bullying management turned a blind eyeWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Not a nice place to be. Very clicky frowned by shop floor if you hit targetsWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Needs a big shake up as it’s very stressful

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Good Company

Manufacturing Engineer (Former Employee) - Gaydon, Warwickshire - 23 August 2023

Overall a good company to work for. Focus on personal development and rewarding building great cars. With drop in volume, staff positions were cut and there was not enough staff to do all work required,

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Abysmal management, avoid avoid avoid

Manufacturing Engineer (Current Employee) - St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan - 14 August 2023

Abysmal management, false promises, double standards. Staff treated like dirt. Managers and HR do not respect confidentiality, be prepared to have your personal circumstances conveyed to the factory if approaching the HR department with an issue, keith in particular is extremely manipulative and unprofessional. Avoid avoid avoid.

Pros

Pay

Cons

Everything else

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Lack of progression and overall improvement of workforce

Build Technician (Former Employee) - Gaydon - 3 July 2023

Aston Martin lacks progression opportunities for employee’s. problems on workshop and re-work on 40% + vehicle’s monthly. Lack of management leadership, including overworking employees because of poor management and machine failure from lack of maintenance or immediate attention to problems on shop floor.

Cons

Long hours, poor management and maintenance, lack of progression

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Good

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan - 1 July 2023

Really enjoyed my time there. Good place with lots of facilities. Alright management. Hard location to get to if you don't have access to a car or bike.

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Sales

Sales (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 19 May 2023

Aston Martin is definitely a place where you'd want to work. Good people, great cars and even better sandwiches in the canteen.Thus endeth the story. Or doth it? Well perhaps one more thing - that V12 is truly a thing of beauty.

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Valued and supported

Lead Technician (Former Employee) - St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan - 4 March 2023

A great company to work for. I left for personal reasons, but how I miss this company. Supported fully by the management, and given chances to developing progress.

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Relaxed work for the money you get

Build Technician (Current Employee) - St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan - 24 February 2023

Great working environment, very relaxed and everyone gets along well. The money is good for what you do. Only cons are the work is repetitive and you need to be ok with working shifts

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Soul destroying evil place

Supervisor Vehicle Technician (Former Employee) - Gaydon - 7 February 2023

Worst place I’ve worked ever in my whole life no amount of money would ever make me go back management treat you like garbage everyone there is just a number.

Pros

None

Cons

Management

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Pressure not enjoyable place to work

Painsprayer (Former Employee) - Warwickshire - 28 September 2022

Worked in paint shop and on wheels repair told only 2 shifts when starting 3 shift system when started starting Sunday night 10pm till 6am then 6am till2pm then 2pm till 10pm lads on shop floor great people above that not even worked in body or paint/ big turnover in staff

Pros

Food bar

Cons

Shift system

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Relentless

Group Leader (Former Employee) - Gaydon, Warwickshire - 8 August 2022

If you have the right support you'll enjoy working at AML. It's never ending work, and you'll need to be fit to keep up. If your manager is poor, so will your prospects be.You won't be able to move, unless can demonstrate a good business case.

Pros

Excellent canteen, some great people.

Cons

Do what I say.

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A great place to work, I'd highly recommend it.

Customer Service (Former Employee) - Gaydon, Warwickshire - 18 July 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed my time working at Aston Martin. Ther's a strong culture of team work and it's a place that really focuses on delivering for the customer.Working conditions are good both in the offices and on the production line. Senior Management Team is dedicated to delivering outstanding product quality. Being a small automotive player you'll have the opportunity to get involved in all sorts of projects, sometimes outside of your core role which keeps the job intersting.

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Wonderful place

Chief Information Security Officer (Current Employee) - Warwick - 21 May 2022

An exciting and fast paced environment. Great management and interesting roles across services. Being part of a team that delivers automotive excellence is hugely satisfying.

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Aston Martin

Vehicle polisher (Current Employee) - Gaydon - 9 March 2022

Best job i Ever had!!! I would do it again if I have the chance... Considering opening a line in Romania? ;))Great experience , great people, amazing cars :)

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Lazy managment constantly discriminate everyday couldnt made difference between life and work.The job was easy.

fitter (Former Employee) - Gaydon - 25 December 2021

well basically whats people are work on the shopfloor thats was friendly and nice just the "lazy managment team" couldnt appreciate nobody they couldnt treat people like people.The job was easy the work times was nice.People got a lot of spare time.The salary with agency thats wasnt enough.Worked more than 3years in the company and the managment could gave me contract because "i was too busy in outside"they couldnt tell any bad things about my work i finish with everything under the tactime.

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No Good HR policies

PAT Leader (Vehicle Crash Safety Attribute Leader) (Current Employee) - Gaydon - 11 December 2021

HR dont have any control over people management activities. No checking of the employee in terms of his or her career development. No policy for internal job change if some person is doing one job for many year. He or she has to find own way to look for internal job change which is obviously political in nature.

Pros

Real Product development experience, High Efficient people

Cons

HR policies are name sake when it comes to employee development.

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Very productive. No fun

Senior Paint Technician for Aston Martin lagonda (Former Employee) - Gaydon, Warwickshire - 7 December 2021

Constantly pushing for more work to be done. Right first time. Don't expect to be thanked. The work force are great, never had a falling out with anyone other than the management.

Pros

Uniform

Cons

Crazy work pattern

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Fast paced & stressful work, but great people

Manager (Current Employee) - Gaydon, Warwickshire - 5 December 2021

Aston Martin is a long standing company which still behaves in many ways like a start up, everyone has more work than it is possible to complete in the targeted time, but due to everyone being in the same boat, it leaves a level of comraderie. The work itself is fulfill and exciting, and the accessibility to talk to senior management has improved dramatically over the last 2 years.Unfortunately, Astons internal HR policies do mean that salary growth is limited for those that stay for years of internal progression.The benefits are relatively good, 12% company contribution for salary after 2 years, mercedes scheme from grade 8, and managers get PSA management vehicles, health shield plan gives cash back on dental and opticians, health insurance & death in service package too.

Pros

Great people, interesting work, opportunity for progression in certain departments, great benefits

Cons

Huge workload, un competitive pay for internal progression Vs unknown external hires

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Total chaos and staff turnover embarrasing

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Saint Athan - 19 November 2021

Dont bother avoid the place DHL are the main problems select few get jobs back stabbing others to management gets you considered the worst experience ive ever had at a work place imature kids in charge clueless no management experience and agency staff are far better than the DHL dim wits the place needs a total revamp from top to bottom get rid of the wasters back stabbers and bring in experience.