Flexible But Bureaucratic
Flexible But Bureaucratic
Some jobs offered a lot of autonomy and were extremely flexible, promoting a good work/life balance. As it's a large company, there is the ability to move to other positions you may like. Individual managers can be very good.
The constant layoffs and grinding bureaucracy.
Some jobs did not offer much autonomy or flexibility.
Work can be of very small scope due to the large organizational structure.
Upper management is out of touch with the average worker.
All that the current upper management cares about is cutting costs and getting the stock price up (so that they can sell their stock options).
Product quality has been suffering as a result.
Top-level management seems to be out of touch. They never want to actually fix inefficiencies; they would rather lay off large amounts of people at random and hope that the inefficiencies will "work themselves out." GM is a company with so much massive potential, but they continue to squander it.
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Performance Engineer
I personally thought it was easy. They send an email with a coding assessment, and then a recruiter calls you. After that, it's the final round. Make sure on the final round you bring up the GM values.
Software Engineer
It was really nice. The manager talked about the department and showed me around after the interview. They were very willing to give more explanation, which really helped me to understand the questions better.
CAE Engineer
Applied online. Had a couple of back-to-back Skype interviews. Each interview was about an hour long. Flew to Detroit for the face-to-face interview and to meet future team members.
Performance Engineer
Austin, Texas, United StatesJanuary 1, 2022I personally thought it was easy. They send an email with a coding assessment, and then a recruiter calls you. After that, it's the final round. Make sure on the final round you bring up the GM values.
Software Engineer
Milford, Michigan, United StatesJune 1, 2018It was really nice. The manager talked about the department and showed me around after the interview. They were very willing to give more explanation, which really helped me to understand the questions better.
CAE Engineer
Milford, Michigan, United StatesSeptember 1, 2016Applied online. Had a couple of back-to-back Skype interviews. Each interview was about an hour long. Flew to Detroit for the face-to-face interview and to meet future team members.
