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Sleazy Managers - Software Developer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

1.0
Sep 7, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Lots to learn and do which means job security if you're concerned about that.

Cons

This is definitely not a good place to work. But the thing I hate the most about this place is how managers use your personal life as ammo against you. Are you from a working class family? Well then you can have the worst job in here cause it's still better than anything your parents had right? Do you have lots of student loans? Then you won't mind working this weekend cause you need that bonus right? I can't wait to get out of this dump.

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Cons

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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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