STA (Supplier Technical Assistance) FCG (Ford College Graduate) Program - Supplier Quality Engineer Ford Motor Company Employee Review

4.0
5 Dec 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Ford is in general a good company to work for. They provide good pay and decent benefits. Most coworkers are very nice and helpful. Work is very individual but there is a very tight-knit team structure within most groups. There are many cool benefits depending on your job role. If you travel a lot (ex. Site STA or Launch STA), you may receive more perks than otherwise.

Cons

Beware that the FCG program functions within a specific group. Within STA (Supplier Technical Assistance), you are allowed only one 1-year rotation outside of STA and two must be within STA. This is very limiting if you find that you would rather not work within supplier quality. The communication upfront was not clear with me. I did not know what STA was until my first day on the job. Prior to that, I was told that I was being hired as a technical specialist, which is not at all the case. Technical specialists are promoted after working many, many years within the company and developing specific technical expertise. Also, Ford has lately been reorganizing due to low profit margins and striving to compete in the electrical vehicle world. This means that job security is not great these days.

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5.0
26 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, 10 day's in July & 10 around Christmas time and new years shutdown, 4 day work week, all holidays,

Cons

Lots of stress put on supervisors, don't shutdown that line, they go crazy. Your stuck on a job until you bid off it.

3.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pretty easy job, low stress, good work life balance, nice people. If you just want a place where you can maintain a stable career, with decent pay, and a good work life balance, you could do much worse than Ford.

Cons

Terrible leadership decisions. ADAS got wrecked over the past 2 years. Most of the talented engineers that I knew have moved on. Part was intentional attrition via return to office mandates and the rest was just the fact that the talented folks who could easily get new jobs got frustrated enough to leave. If you're interested in deep technical work related to autonomy, robotics, ADAS, etc - Ford is not the place you want to be. All of the interesting work has been moved to Latitude, Ford ADAS is mostly just supplier management now.

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