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General Motors (GM)

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General Motors (GM) reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,729 total reviews)
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Mary Barra

49% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

General Motors (GM) has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,729 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Motors (GM) employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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12K reviews
2.0
Oct 9, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are nice. It will make you appreciate your other jobs. Bonus is decent but just leave the day after you get it.

Cons

Any hope of keeping up with modern tech stacks here is minuscule. Most of the company does not do any work on the cloud. When they do, not Azure/AWS but rather PCF. In Austin, the management is full of ex Dell employees that look out for each other. So you end up with engineering managers who probably don't know the first thing about coding basics or current trends in the industry. They are also afraid of the business team. Management will lie to your face about being innovative and pushing the envelope. Really what ends up happening is you either take over some old poorly written legacy applications that the business team has no desire to re-write. Or the business team will buy a poorly written COTS product that is not enterprise ready. Finally they are cheap. No benefits like decent laptops (you will get a heavy brick), cafeteria, gym, training outside of new college hires, etc. Company morale was bad after the layoff. Only come work here is you are towards the end of your career and just want something to sail into retirement with. Finally, the employee discounts are a joke. You can bargain yourself that same deal.

1.0
Jul 25, 2019

Directors quick to label

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing work environment with all the amenities of working for a cash rich company including nice work area, $2000 state of the art chairs, adjustable standing desks, etc

Cons

There is no confidentiality. I had to take a medical leave and by the time I came back, people on other teams knew I had cancer and I was labeled as 'unreliable' Managers are more robots than human

1.0
Jul 22, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

GM like any big company has better than average benefits including life insurance, disability, health, dental, and vision insurance

Cons

Bosses can be a little heavy handed. We are told not to give negative reviews (Workplace of Choice), to only post positive reviews of the company online, and to generally avoid speaking our minds

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General Motors (GM) Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to post your thoughts about GM and the WOC survey. The survey is in place to solicit candid feedback from our employees, hopefully by giving us a broad road map to improve deficiencies in areas of the company. Glad to hear you have been happy with our benefits.
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