General Motors

Great benefits. Slightly below average salary.

You will be placed in a random team.

• It seems like more often than not, they need non-development teams to be filled.
• Ironically, I've seen people with a development background placed in a non-development team, and people without a development background in a development team.

If you are looking to grow as a software developer, I would avoid entry-level positions at General Motors because you will most likely not do any software development.

Additionally, moving horizontally to another team is impossible, despite how proactive you are in networking with other teams. You are essentially locked into your team; on average, three years it seems like. I've seen plenty of entry-level software developers in the company for 0 to 3 years not doing any software development.

Please don't trick people into thinking they will be doing software development when you need manual/repetitive grunt-work to be done for the company. The attrition rate would be much lower if you matched people who like to do manual/repetitive work versus people who like to innovate. You will save the company dollars, and you will save the hours people wasted in joining and leaving the company.