General Motors (GM) reviews

Innovation stops at the names of the innovation centers. Mostly maintain old software and antique processes. Clueless management mostly doing lip service Quality of new hires is questionable High levels of nepotism No development and growth No training If you are any where close to "ambitious", do not touch this company with 10 foot pole. This company is for people who just likes to collect paycheck and not care about anything else.

Unfortunately, many of the pro's listed are also cons in their own way. Because the working environment is often very young, you're left with many inexperienced, college level employees, and the rest tend to be older managers far removed from the work they oversee. There seems to be a large gap in the middle, somewhere to turn to for advice or guidance with the everyday work. Recently the work/life balance has started to trend downwards. When I first started the idea was "Work as much as needed to get your work done." In IT, this works well. When we were busy, we would work as much as needed to complete the task, and then when things slowed down we might have only had to work 5 or 6 hours a day. Additionally, working from home was accepted. Over the past 6 months or so there has been a very strong push to ensure everyone is in the office 8-9 hours a day, regardless of workload. This can lead to sitting around on your hands or not getting your work done in a timely manner because everyone clocks out at 5 PM. Compensation in some areas is well below par for new hires. The salary for my field is roughly 25% lower than at a less successful company 2 miles down the road. GM tries to push the "benefits package" to avert your attention from this in the form of bonuses, but those are entirely company dependent and can easily fail to supplement the lack of a competitive salary. It seems they continue to attempt to lower this bonus each year as well. Credit is generally granted to the manager overseeing the work you did entirely on your own. General Motors is a very old company that tends to treat its executives significantly better than its underlings. Successes on projects and endeavours are usually seen as managerial successes and come with bonuses to the manager rather than rewarding the employee. There are plenty of internal programs set up to remedy this, none of which are utilized. Moving up in the company can take an eternity. When a position you seek opens up on your team, it's advisable to talk to your manager (or whoever is responsible) immediately about this opening you seek, but don't expect any resolution for possible years to come.