Pros: Good work-life balance, amazing vacation days, and amazing benefits. The college hire program maintains 4.4% raises every 6 months, with your last raise being 10% (sometimes more if your manager fights for you, but this will rarely happen). Great work-life balance; think less than 35-hour work weeks because most people won't notice who you are or how long you've been in the office. I've had a coworker who routinely took 4-hour lunches and slept in his chair. It took him 1 year to get "let go" (he moved to another company after being pushed out), so it's very hard to get fired unless they are having routine layoffs like a few years ago. Laid-back environment. Deadlines don't realistically matter; everything gets pushed back, so there's very little stress. They're trying to be better and work with newer coding languages, which is nice. They've heavily invested in CI/CD and cloud software for easy deployments.

Cons: After graduating the new college hire program, opportunities for advancement require 5+ additional years of experience. Each year only gives inflation raises until you've proven your worth and "loyalty." This leaves the majority of people to leave after 3-4 years because the time spent versus the promotion advances are not worth it. Likewise, this means almost all your fellow employees are newly hired workers, with little to none senior devs to be found. If the senior devs are good, they are overworked. Management is non-existent. I would say the majority (unless you're lucky with a good manager) don't care about your career or how you progress, only butts in seats. You are basically treated like a number in a spreadsheet. This is probably because of the age of the company – a lot of old souls who don't like change. Four out of the six managers I've had in three years (a lot, right?) have all left the company. It's also a roll of the dice if you get on a good team or not. The politics in the company is a big reason why management ends up leaving. You have to play the politics game to get promoted. But none of these cons are limited to General Motors; they're just typical big company pains.

Pros: Great team, and benefit, and innovative idea.

Cons: Business doesn't interact much with the IT team.

Pros: People at GM are just awesome. Work is nicely paced, and there are opportunities to transfer to different departments or careers that are always open. This gives you an edge to try various positions and find what you love, even if it's a different career than what you started with. There are even learning opportunities, such as further education and certifications, without you having to return a cent and no contracts or payback clauses – just free. Not to mention the tons of benefits and amenities offered, which you aren't told about since most people don't even know. GM has tons of different things that are completely free or at massive discounts. I have gotten thousands of dollars of things for free or up to 70% off through these benefits.

Cons: The bad side is that GM upper management makes bad decisions. Such as doing a stock buyback for billions, only to fire employees due to lack of funds. This may be due to the fact that GM is not doing well financially, but work has become more and more hostile as time passes. From yearly reviews to quarterly, then to twice a year, and a policy that forces team managers to layoff 5% of their team, regardless of whether that team is high performing or not. This means at least one person had to be fired from the team every year. Not to mention, GM has had plenty of data to determine that the amount of money printed during Covid would lead to an economic downturn later, yet still hiring way too many people, only to fire later because of inflation and recession. Culture and Values were great when I started, but as the company has been suffering, new policies and changes have made the workplace hostile.