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Short sighted decisions and no talent retention - Software Engineer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

1.0
Aug 20, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

some very minor remote flexibility I guess?

Cons

- Anti-consumer decision making - Zero talent retention - Deceptive leadership practices, they go against their word constantly. - LAYOFFS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO THE WORD OF THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM, it's often not even shared internally so is a surprise to everyone. - Nepotistic promotion systems (who you know not what you know) - Zero recognition for going above and beyond role expectations - Constant downsizing so expect the workload of at least 3 people to be thrown at you at all times. They call it "doing more with less" - Constant shift in senior leadership drives constantly changing course resulting in no meaningful progress in anything as it's a revolving door of "next smartest man in the room" - Young people new to the workforce beware, you will be expected to hit the ground running with little to no direction in a fast paced chaotic space. They will tell you to not be afraid of failure and turn around to punish you for failure (see next point) - HR policy that every team MUST have 5%-15% of its members listed as "does not meet role requirements" which results in loss of bonus, anti-team mentality (which they love peddling "One Team!"), and possible termination based on an arbitrary goal post and loss of highly talented individuals on a high impact all-star team.

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Pros

- Very professional environment - Promotions go to the most qualified regardless of race or gender etc - Doing a great job at your role and/or taking on additional work gets noticed - Competitive salaries and benefits

Cons

Work can be demanding at times and, as a profressional, you're expected to get the job done

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General Motors (GM) Response
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2.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

Benefits are decent……. IF you survive

Cons

Can name a few… 1. Poor leadership who hire their buddies and promote them into management level without any sense of technical or automotive knowledge 2. Lack of promotions or opportunities to move internally. If you are starting your career or mid way wanting growth. THIS IS NOT THE PLACE! YOU ARE A NUMBER! (Example, ask all the QA folks who got sacked while their managers got moved around into different roles and engineering manager roles? Not sure how that works but ok 3. Let’s talk about the business now. Leadership doesn’t care if you know or understand the business. This automotive industry is dying. They try to copy Tesla and Mary and leadership can not get the world Tesla out of their mouth. Let’s focus more on autonomy please and not trying to be like someone else…. 4. Stacking raking kills. I understand GM is a business and not a scalable one but that’s not because of the business… it’s because of the people leadership keeps deciding to keep and fire. Ffs get rid of Lowell Kercheville and Stacy Lynett. Both have done no good for either company and neither has their leaders under them. Mhmmm coincidence?

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