General Motors Reviews

Pros

low work load and good safety

Cons

low salary and no benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

improve on production techniques.

Pros

Large diversity of engineering jobs, something for everyone.

Cons

Large place, may not always feel like you're a part of a tight cohesive team.

Pros

Lots of projects local and global
Opportunity to travel the world
Good benefits

Cons

Managers are leaders without tech background
Salary is behind other companies

Advice to Senior Management

Need to have both Technical excellence and leadership in Management

Pros

GM allowed for flexible work hours which helped employees work around family obligations or emergencies.

Cons

There is still a very strong "good old boys" network that is difficult for females to enter.

Advice to Senior Management

Ease up on the favoritism via networks and give others a fair opportunity.

Pros

New leadership is strong and doing the right things. Great -work /life balance. Very teamwork oriented. Great products in production and in the future.

Cons

Very process driven but the rationale behind requiring the processes are valid.

Pros

Exciting to be in the auto industry, every day is different, never boring. Alot of great people to work with.

Cons

Negative perception by the public. Sometimes chaotic, must be able to deal with last minute schedule changes and shifting priorities.

Advice to Senior Management

Value the feedback from your employees.

Pros

Time off, compensation is good. Nice work enviornment. Clean and safe.

Outside management is comming in to bring a different take on the business.

Cons

Very large company that operates like a large company or the government.

Very political and it is appearent before people want to hear what you have to say, they want to know who your connected to and what power you have.

Advice to Senior Management

Hold manager accountable to achievement. Provide managers achievements that are important to the business, the customers and the employess. Insure these achievements have demensions that are not one sided and hurt a portion of the business in the spirit of just achieving.

Pros

appreciated. good culture. competitive pay.

Cons

long hours.hierarchical organization structure.parking off site.

Pros

Pay scale & Benefits
Employe Relationships

Cons

Weak Senior Management
Subjective Promotions

Advice to Senior Management

Promote People based on the merits of the Job Performance not whether you like them or not

Pros

They have great benefits and you can take a company car home four times a year to test drive a GM vehicle.

Cons

I felt that managers were too comfortable in their positions and did not have enough to do. I would catch them playing games on their computer. When I had questions, I was simply given an answer even though it was incorrect. They just wanted to give me an answer to get me to go away. It is purely political and all about building alliances and choosing sides,rather than who is actually competent to perform the job