A Once Great Culture Is Now in Shambles - Senior Software Engineer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

2.0
1 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Depending on what organization you're in, the work/life balance can be pretty good. Some areas can be a nightmare. But it's mostly good.

Cons

The culture of the company has taken a HUGE nose dive in the last year. Like, plummeting from a cliff sort of nose dive. It's in the basement at this point. Despite multiple assurances that layoffs are over, they lay more people off. They're gradually forcing people back into the office more and more, under the guise of cOLLaBoRatION. And rather than focusing on improving the remote collaboration experience and keeping the people, they keep the buildings and kick a bunch of people to the curb. At this point, there's zero trust in senior leadership, and I don't see that getting better any time soon. Also, pay scales for software development is not on par with the rest of the industry. They want top tier talent, but aren't willing to pay top-tier salaries (or even mid-tier really). Prepare to be undervalued.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

Slow mobility at such a big company

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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
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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