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Not bad but unorganized - Senior Software Developer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

3.0
Aug 16, 2019
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Pros

A lot of different tech, projects, and smart people to gain more experience and knowledge from. Competitive compensation and pretty good benefits (especially if you've been there for a few years).

Cons

Teams, that work on the same systems, do not communicate to each other much. People do the same work without knowing about it until it's too late. Some management tries to play a cut-throat game. Managers promise to the business some new products behind the backs of their colleagues and then pushes the whole team to achieve those goals before anyone got the same idea and implemented it. Higher management pushes for the following principles: "speak up", "it's on me", "innovate" and a lot of others. The actual team managers say that they very much agree with all of this to the business but behind their backs they say those principles are stupid and if you try to bring anything up to their attention you can get your bonus cut, your salary won't increase or they can even threaten you to be fired. All they care about is to deliver the requested set of features before the deadline. If it does not function properly during the release time they will start point fingers and blame other teams/certain team members/other managers. Anything just to prove their work is great and the reason we are going to miss the deadline is somewhere else.

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5.0
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Pros

I was told I would have one mentor starting off, I get there and everyone in my team was willing to help me succeed at my role

Cons

It was slow at responding

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2.0
Jul 16, 2026
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Pros

I was able to learn some interesting things in robotics, computer vision, etc. These jobs can be hard to come by, so it was a nice entry point. Plenty of chances to prove your worth, considering the incompetence of some of the managers and leads (but dont expect to be paid for the effort, you gotta show the effort first and you *might* get an early promotion)

Cons

Layoffs are frequent and nonsensical. Absolutely no warning that it will happen, you just wake up one day with the meeting on your calendar. Pay is OK. After being laid off late May, I found a job in a month or two that paid more (150k base -> 180k base) The things I learned were almost entirely self taught. Leads and management provided zero structure. They didnt use jira at all. They didnt write up business requirements for projects. Leads didnt create technical requirements. Milestones were vague. Everything was completely unorganized due to the inexperience of upper management and engineering leadership.

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