General Motors

Great pay.

Great annual bonus (if you survive the stacked ranking Hunger Games).

Great vacation that doesn't accrue, but also doesn't roll over.

Annual shutdown in July and Christmas/New Years is a huge plus.

Company culture completely changed for the worst after Covid. More meetings, more beating and tracking, less collaboration, less collective effort due to burnout.

Employees sit in an open office while everyone is on Teams calls (often with people across the office), and the majority of employees are too lazy or too busy to unplug their computers and find a meeting room.

Depending on your role, you will likely be in stacked Teams meetings back-to-back, or overlapping, throughout your entire workday and will have little time to actually get things done.

If you work in Manufacturing, you should never expect to be "off".

Organizational "Goals" have continually changed and lead to management confusion.

Employee training is a joke. Most training modules are out of date from three systems ago, and if you do try to find an existing process or homepage for a group that managed the process, you will often hit a dead end.

Internal IT systems are outdated and poorly managed. You will continually try to find something that used to be useful is now "404 Not Found".

You will regularly be gaslit into thinking it was always your job to take on more and more work from engineers and departments that have been downsized.

GM used to be a company I was proud to be a part of. A U.S. institution. But since COVID, the company has begun to rot from the inside out.