General Motors

Good work/life balance. Mostly nice people, good benefits.

A large number of incompetent middle managers in IT. A lot of long and pointless meetings. The ratio between middle management and employees in IT is just ridiculous.

At one point, I was on a project where:

• 5 developers were managed by 5 managers.

On my previous job, such a kind of project would take 1 manager and 6 months; at GM, it took 18 months to finish.

Managers insisted on implementing a design which nobody can use, so nobody is using the software we developed.

I wasted 18 months of my life.

Every IT meeting is full of self-congratulating speeches about innovation; innovation is happening, but so slow...

Reduce bureaucracy and cut the number of meetings. IT is full of managers who are just playing bureaucratic games instead of working on projects, which can produce real results. Get rid of the people. Minimize the number of projects that use outdated technologies.