General Motors

Regardless of what anyone says, the pay and benefits are great for salaried individuals (take it from someone who just relocated to the east coast). Can you make more elsewhere? Maybe (at a supplier or other in the area). But I can tell you no one is going hungry working here full-time. I think the density of the automotive industry in the Michigan area will support this for the foreseeable future.

Great time off. Also have made a recent push towards a "workplace of choice," which I think will better attract young talent. Flex time was great.

For a very large company, I think they do a good job of promoting people that deserve it. There are always some politics involved, and someone will always be in a position that they don't really deserve or get paid more than you. With that being said, I never felt like the work I was doing wasn't being appreciated.

Multiple opportunities for young engineers to move around the company and get a vast amount of experience.

People will complain about too much work and not enough people. What I will say to this is that work-life balance is what you make of it.

I came in at 7 and there were multiple days a week I might be there till 6. Sometimes this is what needs to be done to get the job done.

At the same time, I joined a golf league in the summer that started at 3:30 every Monday. I put an (unofficial) meeting notice in my calendar and left the office no later than 3 PM on Mondays for 16 straight weeks. This is what I mean about work-life balance being what you make of it.

Keep up the good work.