General Motors (GM) reviews

If you're an experienced hire like myself, you'll find this is a typical corporate company. It's the same red tape, same good ol' boys club, same politics, groups are extremely siloed. Promotions within the same group are almost non existent. In most IT groups, you can't be promoted unless you dedicate every waking moment of your life to your job - instead you have to leave the group to get the promotion you need or have someone leave. They let really knowledgeable workers walk out the door. The infrastructure is a mess. They go with whatever brand/products are the cheapest. They are trying to hire a bunch of new college hire developers to develop 80% apps in house and throw them into a group, train them and have them do repetitive tasks over and over again. It's very common to walk around and see people hanging out on Facebook or playing games. There are a massive amount of people that are not technical at all and I have no idea how they got the job. Cubical areas are short so it's very loud. Do not expect any privacy at all.

Like many old and large companies, management has a tendency to control your work life without notifying you until a change has been made for you. I've seen many people who learn they are changing roles from a department-wide email which feels very impersonal and makes you feel out of control over your career. Maternity/Paternity leave policies are underwhelming. Instead of telling employees actual expectations, management lies to you with "stretch goals" because they assume you will fail to meet the actual timeline. I understand why people do this, but it makes me feel like a child. Multiple times, I worked super-late hours to meet their false timeline only to learn that it wasn't due for another few days. Then, I had nothing to do for those three days but be sleep deprived from the previous week.