It's a masterpiece of bureaucratic juggling to ensure you cannot move up in anything but workload
It's a masterpiece of bureaucratic juggling to ensure you cannot move up in anything but workload
Health benefits, their willingness to reset your career advancement if you wish to change roles horizontally, bonus structure.
College hire program.
They'll reset your career by changing your work, technology, or team every year or so to ensure they have a solid argument to never promote or give raises. If you do get raises or promotions, you'd get so much more elsewhere. Most leave GM for 20-40% pay increases. Their college-hire program is nice for the 3 years it lasts; leave immediately after.
GMIT claims to feel like a startup, but only in the capacity that middle management has no clue how to make decisions for its teams, and it comes with the true Fortune 500 company-level shenanigans for ensuring maximum output and minimal compensation.
Oh, and they love exploiting immigrant visas. If I had a dollar for every immigrant they have in IT solo-supporting a legacy system at an 80-hour average workload, which is also operations work so they never sleep consistently, I'd have a severance package worth talking about.
I acted as a pseudo-dev manager to deliver an upgrade in Q1 while being paid as a regular software dev; I was let go in Q3 for refusing to turn into one of the 80-hour ops grinders. Know when it's time to leave. They will not give you severance.
Fire everyone between the Dev Manager and IT Director. Seven years, and I genuinely can't tell you what any of them do.
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Started with a conversation with HR. Soon after, there was a discussion with a regional engineer about the role's responsibilities. About a week later, there were two interviews that were on the same day and back to back. One was with a member of the
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The process is very easy; they are just really bad about letting you know when you will hear back from them. They will send you an online assessment, which consists of you answering five basic interpersonal/skill questions. They then have you play
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The interview process was pretty relaxed and easy. It was all behavioral questions, asking about how you approached difficult situations you encountered. They did not ask any technical questions whatsoever.
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Roswell, Georgia, United StatesJuly 1, 2021Started with a conversation with HR. Soon after, there was a discussion with a regional engineer about the role's responsibilities. About a week later, there were two interviews that were on the same day and back to back. One was with a member of the
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Roswell, Georgia, United StatesFebruary 1, 2020The process is very easy; they are just really bad about letting you know when you will hear back from them. They will send you an online assessment, which consists of you answering five basic interpersonal/skill questions. They then have you play
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Roswell, Georgia, United StatesOctober 1, 2016The interview process was pretty relaxed and easy. It was all behavioral questions, asking about how you approached difficult situations you encountered. They did not ask any technical questions whatsoever.
