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      No perks, not even coffee! - Senior Software Engineer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

      4.0
      8 Feb 2014
      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      9-5 work culture, 3 weeks vacation plus 16 holidays, car discount, level 8 (sr leads, managers) and above get a new company car every 6 months

      Cons

      Mediocre health benefits, no perks, no coffee, lots of red tape, bureaucracy blocks the simplest requests (getting a VM in a lab can take months!). Many mangers are from AMD, Dell and HP and seem to leave nothing but destruction in their wake. What this means is that your manager, or even your director, cannot approve the simplest requests or really authorize any kind of expense no matter how small. Forget about bringing in lunch for the team at crunch time unless you want to pay for it out of your own pocket. Need devices for mobile dev? Good luck with that!

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      5.0
      24 Apr 2026
      Process controls and validation engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great company culture and work life balance

      Cons

      Slow mobility at such a big company

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      General Motors (GM) Response
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      Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. We would like to thank you for your contributions to GM and appreciate the feedback! We encourage you to speak with your leader about how you might be able to uncover new challenges and opportunities to assist in your career development.
      2.0
      4 Jul 2026
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Benefits are decent……. IF you survive

      Cons

      Can name a few… 1. Poor leadership who hire their buddies and promote them into management level without any sense of technical or automotive knowledge 2. Lack of promotions or opportunities to move internally. If you are starting your career or mid way wanting growth. THIS IS NOT THE PLACE! YOU ARE A NUMBER! (Example, ask all the QA folks who got sacked while their managers got moved around into different roles and engineering manager roles? Not sure how that works but ok 3. Let’s talk about the business now. Leadership doesn’t care if you know or understand the business. This automotive industry is dying. They try to copy Tesla and Mary and leadership can not get the world Tesla out of their mouth. Let’s focus more on autonomy please and not trying to be like someone else…. 4. Stacking raking kills. I understand GM is a business and not a scalable one but that’s not because of the business… it’s because of the people leadership keeps deciding to keep and fire. Ffs get rid of Lowell Kercheville and Stacy Lynett. Both have done no good for either company and neither has their leaders under them. Mhmmm coincidence?

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