General Motors

• Innovative mindset.
• Willingness to trust junior employees with large projects.
• Plenty of opportunities to tackle interesting problems and learn new skills.
• Great people.
• Competitive compensation package.

• Large bureaucracies often make it difficult to acquire the necessary resources to meet deadlines.
• Projects can be agonizingly slow moving when realistically they should take much less time.
• Experienced some requirement creep.
• Working in multiple time zones can mean many late nights and early mornings. The line between on and off-the-clock time can become blurred. Not uncommon in the industry, but still not ideal for maintaining a good work-life balance.

What GM has accomplished in their insourcing effort is absolutely commendable. Hopefully, over the next few years, they can continue to remove some of the overly-bureaucratic and outdated internal mechanisms so that innovation can increase even more.

Keep hiring great people and stay on the innovative track!