BRP reviews

Life at BRP really depends on what department you're working in and who your supervisor is. In the 1st half of my career at BRP I loved it. You felt valued and respected. Although I worked on my own it was a team effort, sharing ideas and helping your team. Once I was promoted things changed if you are a strong employee with a lot of knowledge, you can be seen by your supervisor as a threat. That supervisor was more interested in making his high school buddy look great. Then in the last department, we had 2 supervisors that had very little knowledge of the product line and the customer base. My area was the top in that department. I had the respect of all the field personnel and was the person they called when they needed advice or how to do something. I was treated very badly by my supervisor and his boss being belittled in meetings in front of the team. Employees from other departments would sit in our meetings asking why my area was doing so well. They would not let me speak and took credit for what I did. It took me a while to write this review. No employee should have to go through what I did from these 2 individuals.

-A lot of unpaid overtime -Excessive workload -Insignificant salary increase post-covid -Salary not competitive -Abysmal location -Too many projects at once -Job-specific tasks are unclear and job evaluation criteria seems meaningless -Inconsistent workload and task distribution across employees (favoritism) -No formal training process -Invisible HR -Outdated and inadequate design process (need to integrate FEA analysis more in the design process and rely less on physical testing) -Way too much planning and management done manually, need to redefine business processes (desperately need to deploy PLM, better ERP and project management tools) -Vehicle development engineering spends too much time supporting operations and other business units instead of doing actual R&D