General Motors

Entry Level Software Developer Interview Experience

February 5, 2021

Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Don't waste your time applying to GM. You go through a recorded behavioral assessment, coding assessment, phone interview, then a final 2-hour onsite.

I received an offer shortly after, but was completely in shock when I was told that it'd be for a QA position. Super misleading, as I applied to be a Software Developer. Do your own research and you'll see that this has happened to many others who applied to the Software Development role.

Questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 76 interview experiences for the General Motors Entry Level Software Developer role in United States.

Success Rate

49%

Pass Rate

General Motors's interview process for their Entry Level Software Developer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive87%

Neutral8%

Negative5%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for General Motors's Entry Level Software Developer interview process in United States.

General Motors Work Experiences

Great Start, Slow Growth

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Pros: Salary is decent, with good salary growth for new college graduates and a lot of potential for career growth.

Cons: The salary growth after your first 3 years will be very slow. It looks like most raises will come from promotions.

Great Start, Slow Growth

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Pros: Salary is decent, with good salary growth for new college graduates and a lot of potential for career growth.

Cons: The salary growth after your first 3 years will be very slow. It looks like most raises will come from promotions.

Corporate culture can be hit or miss

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

September 14, 2023

Pros: Great benefits, great people (depending where you land), good flexibility with work hours. Great support among teammates and direct manager.

Cons: Senior leadership say they seem not to care much about the impact on employers. The CEO told us to assume goodness and no layoffs were happening, only to later shut down an entire innovation center. The new CIO, who came from Apple, appears tone-deaf. They held a new meeting to talk about direction and plans for the GM IT sector, completely dismissing any hard-hitting questions from those affected by the shutdown.

Corporate culture can be hit or miss

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

September 14, 2023

Pros: Great benefits, great people (depending where you land), good flexibility with work hours. Great support among teammates and direct manager.

Cons: Senior leadership say they seem not to care much about the impact on employers. The CEO told us to assume goodness and no layoffs were happening, only to later shut down an entire innovation center. The new CIO, who came from Apple, appears tone-deaf. They held a new meeting to talk about direction and plans for the GM IT sector, completely dismissing any hard-hitting questions from those affected by the shutdown.

Go somewhere better

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

Austin, Texas, United States

January 18, 2024

Pros: Chill, relaxed, not too stressful.

Cons: An untrustworthy place that goes back on their word.

Go somewhere better

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

Austin, Texas, United States

January 18, 2024

Pros: Chill, relaxed, not too stressful.

Cons: An untrustworthy place that goes back on their word.

Great Start, Slow Growth

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Pros: Salary is decent, with good salary growth for new college graduates and a lot of potential for career growth.

Cons: The salary growth after your first 3 years will be very slow. It looks like most raises will come from promotions.

4.0
Great Start, Slow Growth
Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee
Detroit, Michigan, United States
March 5, 2021
Pros: Salary is decent, with good salary growth for new college graduates and a lot of potential for career growth.
Cons: The salary growth after your first 3 years will be very slow. It looks like most raises will come from promotions.

Corporate culture can be hit or miss

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

September 14, 2023

Pros: Great benefits, great people (depending where you land), good flexibility with work hours. Great support among teammates and direct manager.

Cons: Senior leadership say they seem not to care much about the impact on employers. The CEO told us to assume goodness and no layoffs were happening, only to later shut down an entire innovation center. The new CIO, who came from Apple, appears tone-deaf. They held a new meeting to talk about direction and plans for the GM IT sector, completely dismissing any hard-hitting questions from those affected by the shutdown.

3.0
Corporate culture can be hit or miss
Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee
September 14, 2023
Pros: Great benefits, great people (depending where you land), good flexibility with work hours. Great support among teammates and direct manager.
Cons: Senior leadership say they seem not to care much about the impact on employers. The CEO told us to assume goodness and no layoffs were happening, only to later shut down an entire innovation center. The new CIO, who came from Apple, appears tone-deaf. They held a new meeting to talk about direction and plans for the GM IT sector, completely dismissing any hard-hitting questions from those affected by the shutdown.

Go somewhere better

Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee

Austin, Texas, United States

January 18, 2024

Pros: Chill, relaxed, not too stressful.

Cons: An untrustworthy place that goes back on their word.

2.0
Go somewhere better
Entry Level Software Developer • Current Employee
Austin, Texas, United States
January 18, 2024
Pros: Chill, relaxed, not too stressful.
Cons: An untrustworthy place that goes back on their word.

General Motors Interview Questions

Number of Connected Components in an Undirected Graph

Determine the number of disconnected groups (connected components) within a given undirected graph. You're provided the graph's edges and need to find how many separate, reachable islands of nodes exist.

Implement Trie (Prefix Tree)

Design a data structure that efficiently stores a set of strings and allows for prefix-based searches. Implement methods to insert strings, search for complete words, and check if any word starts with a given prefix.

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

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