employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

General Motors (GM)

Engaged Employer

Take it in stride - Global Process Leader General Motors (GM) Employee Review

5.0
Oct 10, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

After 15 years tenure, the people continue to be my best reason to work for General Motors. Certainly as an engineer the continuous challenge of new vehicle development and alternative propulsion systems keeps me enthusiastic.

Cons

The whole global economic crisis: rising energy prices, commodity and steel price inflation, the possibility of a deep global recession are headwinds out of GM's control. These forces additively amount to uncertainty, constantly imploding human resources, and tough actions which we don't enjoy making. Job security does not exist for my generation, If the playing field was level and we didn't have the costs of all the benefits and unions and all that, it'd be a different world

Explore other reviews about General Motors (GM)

5.0
May 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Collaborative, welcoming, transparent, work life balance

Cons

I do not have cons at the moment

2.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All