General Motors

• It's a good place to start your career.
• Decent work/life balance (this does depend on your team).
• Nice benefits package, with a matching 401k (up to 8%), good health insurance, and a decent amount of PTO, etc.
• The company is in a transformational state and has potential when it chooses not to squander it.
• Yearly bonus can be generous.

GM could absolutely afford to pay its software developers better. GM has some lofty ambitions in its current transformational state but does not compensate to match these ambitions.

Changed the definition of work appropriately, which allowed team management to decide whether or not it is necessary for their group to work in the office. Upper management will be mandating all teams to return regardless of the team's needs. This was the one benefit that made GM competitive in tech. They will absolutely have a harder time attracting/retaining good talent with this move.

Experience varies from team to team.

Many best practices for software development are ignored.

Top performers are not rewarded.

Weakest performers can skate by without any repercussions.

I keep hearing upper-level management talk about recruiting top talent in the tech space from companies like Google, Meta, etc.

If you're really serious about that, I would highly recommend taking a serious look at the pay structure and benefits package. GM's pay in the tech space is hardly competitive.