BRP reviews

The flip side of this is that no one can afford to be too highly specialized, because everyone in engineering is spread pretty thin. Resource and staffing levels are very lean. Our competitors have a dozen people doing the job I do; I'm a team of one. Sometimes resource issues are exacerbated by poor communication. Given how lean the organization is, bad communication is something we really can't afford, but it happens more often than it should. As information travels through the organizational structure, it inevitably gets garbled. The result is wasted time and energy. Neither of these problems is unique to BRP: nearly every company wants to be "lean" these days, and if hierarchical organizations didn't result in bad communication, there would be no market for Dilbert comics. I don't think BRP is particularly better or worse than most companies in either of these regards.

The Sturtevant, WI manufacturing plant is basically outdated. The management is sexist and racist. If you have not been with the company at least 15 years you are treated as a joke. The "buddy" system and getting "very friendly" with any middle level supervisor and manager is the only way you will be promoted or get a raise. Cafeteria is awful and overall the offices are depressing they are still trying to live the 1970's where the supervisor only acts as a public relations to upper management but does not even know how to use their own system, yet they take all the credit. If you attempt to talk with upper management to just say Hi you will be regarded as a traitor to your supervisor.