General Motors

Great team culture, diversity, friendly coworkers, very flexible.

Management really listens to feedback and tries to make changes.

Healthy work-life balance.

15 days PTO + 5 more after 2 years at the company, on top of corporate holidays: New Year's Day, MLK, Easter (Fri+Mon), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving (Thurs+Fri), and the entire week of Christmas.

Company car for L8 and above employees.

Bonuses are consistent and dependable because each level has a target percentage. For example, L8 is 18%, and then there are some multipliers based on performance and how the company is doing.

• Lower salary than tech companies.
• L8 is the highest individual contributor level that is generally attainable. L9 is Technical Fellow and is extremely rare.
• No stock awards.
• Median experience level (for developers) feels heavily skewed toward fresh out of college.
• Old company, so lots of tribal knowledge, silos, and legacy software systems can be annoying.

Keep up the good work on diversity and culture.

Be careful about the imbalance between new college hires and more experienced developers.

Make more levels beyond 8 for senior employees that are practically attainable.