General Motors

Competitive pay, great benefits, and lots of opportunities to work on various projects.

Forced ranking has created a fairly toxic culture. This is especially because, historically, GM has promoted those who stay/survive, not the most competent. This has created a lot of leadership who are more incompetent than the engineers performing the work.

Although GM has said that leadership will also be held to the forced rankings, I've currently only seen engineers being laid off, with the occasional team of engineers and their respective manager.

As of now, it seems that GM is still retaining more middle management, despite already being fairly bloated. Hopefully, things will change soon without losing too many engineers in the process.

Reduce middle-management bloating.

Implement and use a numerical-based grading for performance evaluation. This should hopefully distinguish between engineers and managers.

Note: GM currently has a more robust grading system, on paper. However, from what I've seen/heard, it's not really being used, or at least not correctly. Performance evaluations are basically a black box until the official review. Are you getting laid off? Are you getting a promotion? Or are you just happy to have a job for the next 6-12 months? Let's find out!