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A great place for engineers – if they can rightsize themselves

Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at General Motors for less than 1 year
January 6, 2009
Warren, Michigan
2.0
RecommendsDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Excellent support structure for engineering world-class products.

Diversity in types of jobs available.

Decent career growth available; must be proactive, however.

Detroit is an underrated city for those willing to do a little exploring.

Cons

Work is very process driven.

No one is ever fired; many people are still doing the minimum just to keep their jobs.

Health benefits aren't the greatest.

Current mode of slashing everything that is not critical - they have even eliminated trash cans.

Advice to Management

Make the hard decisions needed now—short-term sacrifice for long-term reward. I have been here for 8 years and have only seen the company decline since I've been here. If decisions had been made earlier, the pain everyone is going through now would be much less.

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