General Motors

Cafeterias are great.

Co-workers are friendly and helpful.

Bathrooms are clean.

GM is desperate to hire a LOT of IT resources: developers, network engineers, project managers, and so on. The desperation to hire thousands of technical workers drives questionable things to happen, as it's so hard to hire technical talent in the first place.

GM cold-called me to apply at GM. So I listened to the recruiter, applied, got the job, and loved the hiring manager and what I was doing... for one week.

After ONLY ONE WEEK, some other project wasn't going well. Management rotated one worker off the project and told me I'd be reporting to a different manager and doing something unrelated to my job title and what I was told I would be doing. My offer letter with who I reported to and my job title meant nothing.

I complained to HR, to management, and to the recruiters. Nobody cared to make things right, only to force me to report to someone other than my hiring manager and do a job far less technical than I was hired for, making several technical certifications and my past technical experience irrelevant.

When you give a candidate a job offer in writing, stating who they report to and what they do, don't change that one week later. That's misrepresentation of employment.

If you can't figure out or project what resources should be on what projects, you have some serious project management problems.

Keep burning new hires, and you'll get a reputation in the technical community. Or perhaps you already have a poor reputation, and that's why I got the cold call because you're having problems hiring technical talent.