General Motors

Good place to start out of college (until you have 2 years in GM). You will get exposed to technologies of the 90s and old methodologies. (No cloud tech here, to my knowledge).

There are multiple issues or cons I can mention:

• Lack of stable systems.
• Culture barrier (you can see the difference between levels in the corporate ladder).
• There is no respect for the health of the employee, and you will have an unbalanced work-life style (get calls every night to fix an issue with no backups).
• Toxic work environment (you will see harassment and racist profiling).
• Lots of interns and college hires (hard to get an experienced employee to help on the problems at hand or SME).
• After you master a technology, you will be stuck doing the same thing for years to come (plus becoming obsolete in the long run, and management won't help you move forward in your professional career).
• Lower management/middle management is disconnected with higher management (different goals and lower/middle management follow a different path from the higher management guidelines).

In the end, they lack the personal expertise or they won't invest in experienced personnel to stabilize their current technologies and adapt to the new market trends, which will eventually be their downfall.

• Re-organize the management, and talk to the actual people doing the work. (But usually, they will witch hunt you down if you talk anonymously.)
• Rework the policies at hand and how to review the performance of their employees.
• Review the management and director with an unbiased view and lay off if needed. (Too many managers)
• Add core values to your management staff.
• Strongly consider changing the management culture at GM. (It is disconnected from the actual market and undervalues employees' time and effort.)
• Add new audits to review management and work being done. (Yes, it is happening, and they are not doing anything about it.)
• Add training for your employees to create new skill sets.

Overall, there is a lot to work on, and I have my doubts there will be any change anytime soon. GM is currently shrinking, and the reputation of the cars needs to improve a lot.