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No accountability at all levels created a caustic environment and culture that has caused rotting from its core

Product Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at General Motors for less than 1 year
October 11, 2011
Pontiac, Michigan
2.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Good work-life balance. Lots of opportunity once inside GM.

Cons

There is a lot of opportunity inside GM to do different work, but be careful what job you accept to get into GM, because all that diversity is virtually impossible to taste. GM management effectively does not allow employee movement.

Eight-level and above "managers" and executives are useless and provide no direction. There needs to be a cleansing of the "stuck middle" at GM.

There is no accountability on any level at GM.

An eight-level "technical expert" is an oxymoron at GM.

What bankruptcy? The caustic culture created from years of no accountability has created a workplace and company that is rotten to its core.

Advice to Management

Hold yourselves and each other accountable. Listen to the 6 and 7 level engineers; their concerns are legitimate. Get your heads out of the past; it's not 1966 anymore.

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