General Motors

Good pay, good work environment, good opportunities for advancement.

Massive tree-hugging bureaucracy. Mismanagement. Many current employees trying to "cancel" people who don't like EVs.

First of all, if you are a car enthusiast who prefers gas and diesel and you want to work here, be VERY careful. There's every chance you could get PR-hawking nonsense shoved in your face whenever you mention anything about not liking electric vehicles.

I had high hopes for this internship when I accepted my offer in late 2020, and it seemed like a very exciting opportunity. I was really hoping to be able to perform hands-on work. Unfortunately, the experience I got for the first half and last quarter of my internship was exactly the opposite. My first project got delayed so much that I never got to work on it, and I was assigned a lot of boring office work which I had nearly zero interest in. Initially, I worked out of the Brownstown Assembly Plant, but it was only after I got moved around to two different suppliers that I actually started to enjoy the job. And even then, it slowly died off. By the time my end date arrived, I no longer had any interest in returning to the division I worked for, at least for the foreseeable future.

If you're going to tell your interns that they're going to be assigned a particular project, give it to them. Don't delay it so long that they end up hating you.

It also appears that some people here (even many of the interns who I talked with, both in person and online) are doing everything they can to force EVs on people. Yeah, EVs could be faster and more powerful, but if that's not what enthusiasts want, then you're going to lose to Ford, Chrysler, and the other automakers if they're still making gas and hybrid offerings. I'm aware that the car scene will change as EV adoption increases, but it seems like the way these people talked to me gave me the impression that they hate freedom of choice and are trying to objectify beauty and otherwise subjective things. Why can't we just get along?