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Where software careers go to die - Senior Software Developer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

2.0
Oct 9, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are nice. It will make you appreciate your other jobs. Bonus is decent but just leave the day after you get it.

Cons

Any hope of keeping up with modern tech stacks here is minuscule. Most of the company does not do any work on the cloud. When they do, not Azure/AWS but rather PCF. In Austin, the management is full of ex Dell employees that look out for each other. So you end up with engineering managers who probably don't know the first thing about coding basics or current trends in the industry. They are also afraid of the business team. Management will lie to your face about being innovative and pushing the envelope. Really what ends up happening is you either take over some old poorly written legacy applications that the business team has no desire to re-write. Or the business team will buy a poorly written COTS product that is not enterprise ready. Finally they are cheap. No benefits like decent laptops (you will get a heavy brick), cafeteria, gym, training outside of new college hires, etc. Company morale was bad after the layoff. Only come work here is you are towards the end of your career and just want something to sail into retirement with. Finally, the employee discounts are a joke. You can bargain yourself that same deal.

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5.0
Mar 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very Interesting Work Environment, and very complex machinery at play with employees possessing a wealth of information

Cons

Difficult to integrate yourself into the workflow. Meaningful work is often hard to take ownership of as it's high risk and siloed, or can not afford to be delayed.

2.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
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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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