General Motors

It really depends on the direct managers you get. If you have good managers, then work-life balance can be really good, and they advocate for you when it comes time for promotions at the end of the year.

The 401k match is also really good, and health insurance doesn't cost too much.

GM's senior leadership team (SLT) has gone back on their word several times over the past year.

A year and a half ago, they said "work appropriately" (which allowed employees and their direct managers to choose when work at home or in office was needed) was here to stay. However, just a few months later, they started requiring us to be in the office three days a week. Now, starting in January, they are also mandating which of those three days we have to be in the office.

To make it worse, my whole team is in a different location, so I now have to come into the office just to be on Teams calls all day.

Also, there have been multiple times this year the SLT said there would be no layoffs and then proceeded to do layoffs a month or two later. One of these layoffs included closing an entire IT center in Arizona with over 900 people.

Through this all, SLT has not acted on feedback from employees or addressed our concerns. Given how things are working, I would strongly recommend looking somewhere else for a job.

Listen to employee feedback and let us be where we actually do our best work.