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General Motors (GM)

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General Motors (GM) reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,731 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 11,731 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
Nov 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A paycheck is pretty much it.

Cons

Beauracracy is heavy. Transparency is non-existent. Many managers with little to do micromanaging their teams. Putting senior talent to work doing junior level work with no chance to advance or learn. Innovation is a joke. If you are Hindu and from India this is the place for you. Otherwise you will be ignored.

1.0
Sep 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits are amazing! Great salaries and opportunities to own a GM vehicle (which I would never replace for my Mazda) but the perk is there if you want it. Profit sharing benefits are also great but good luck with these recalls. Good working hours.

Cons

Hiring lots of new kids and firing those who are a threat to lead, supervisors, and management. There is a culture of envy and those who came from Dell are ruining the Innovation Center. Too many meetings and people looking busy. Too many 'gatherings' after work and heaven forbid if you do not assist, they want to know why but I never told them. I take care of my disabled father and can't be socializing, drinking, and spending money after work hours. If you do not give them your personal life, there is a problem. If you go to Human Resources, they will not help you, they will either make you feel incompetent or worse off, they will fire you. As soon as I did not owe them my moving expenses, I ran from the company where I though I was going to grow and be proud of.

2.0
May 19, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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