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General Motors is a survivor! - Portfolio Manager General Motors (GM) Employee Review

4.0
Oct 13, 2008
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Pros

It's challenging being the under dog but you learn what you are made of and what your capable of doing. Once you have the GM experience it will open many other doors in your future. Don't kid yourself though, for all the problems GM has had they have some of the brightest and most talented people in the world. That would include both inside and outside the automotive industry.

Cons

Trying to live down the legacy of the years of sub par cars. Trying to make it through a tremendous automotive shake out where the playing field has not always been level.

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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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