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Not the Same After Covid - Design Release Engineer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2025
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Pros

Great pay Great annual bonus (if you survive the stacked ranking Hunger Games) Great Vacation that doesn't accrue, but also doesn't roll over Annual shutdown in July and Christmas/New Years is a huge plus

Cons

Company culture completely changed for the worst after Covid. More meetings, more beating and tracking, less collaboration, less collective effort due to burnout. Employees sit in an open office while everyone is on Teams calls (often with people across the office) and the majority of employees are too lazy, or too busy, to unplug their computers and find a meeting room. Depending on your role, you will likely be in stacked Teams meetings back-to-back, or overlapping, throughout your entire workday and will have little time to actually get things done. If you work in Manufacturing you should never expect to be "off". Organizational "Goals" have continually changed and lead to Management confusion. Employee training is a joke. Most training modules are out of date from three systems ago and if you do try to find an existing process or homepage for a group that managed the process you will often hit a dead end. Internal IT systems are outdated and poorly managed. You will continually try to find something that used to be useful is now "404 Not Found". You will regularly be gaslit into thinking it was always your job to take on more and more work from engineers and departments that have been downsized

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5.0
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Pros

Learned a lot and grew my technical acumen that helped boost my career opportunities at the right time Managers were understanding and appreciative

Cons

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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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