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Microsoft-Centric, No Tech-Company Feel - Senior Software Engineer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

2.0
Feb 29, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Teammates nice, fairly laid-back atmosphere. Good vacation days and lots of holidays (eg closed entire week of Christmas). Work mobile phone provided. Decent 401k match (but see Con below).

Cons

Spreadsheet-happy culture. So many spreadsheets. And Word docs. Everything here is Microsoft--every tool (Sharepoint, TFS, Visual Studio), every document (PPT, Word, Excel everywhere), every computer (no Macs in sight), every mindset. Every decision or thing is documented in a spreadsheet or a cumbersome ticketing system. This is typical of big companies, but is the worst I've seen here. One week to get svn access granted, etc. No git, no github, no developer VMs, no ssh access to outside world (so you can't even clone git open source repos) etc. No equity compensation of any form (no RSU, no ESPP even). Low salary for experienced devs. Lengthy 401k match vesting (3 yrs). If you drive a non-GM car, you are relegated to pariah-parking--all the close-in parking is GM-car only. No typical "tech company" niceties--no free snacks at all, no free sodas, no free coffee, no free tea, no free plasticware (seriously, you are supposed to buy plastic spoons if you need, from the cafeteria), no paper plates, no cups, no toasters in office anywhere, no game room etc (one ping-pong table for entire 4-story building in a corner of one floor). Giant breakroom/kitchen area filled with empty cabinets and empty drawers.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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