General Motors

People at GM are just awesome. Work is nicely paced, and there are opportunities to transfer to different departments or careers that are always open.

This gives you an edge to try various positions and find what you love, even if it's a different career than what you started with.

There are even learning opportunities, such as further education and certifications, without you having to return a cent and no contracts or payback clauses – just free.

Not to mention the tons of benefits and amenities offered, which you aren't told about since most people don't even know.

GM has tons of different things that are completely free or at massive discounts. I have gotten thousands of dollars of things for free or up to 70% off through these benefits.

The bad side is that GM upper management makes bad decisions. Such as doing a stock buyback for billions, only to fire employees due to lack of funds. This may be due to the fact that GM is not doing well financially, but work has become more and more hostile as time passes. From yearly reviews to quarterly, then to twice a year, and a policy that forces team managers to layoff 5% of their team, regardless of whether that team is high performing or not. This means at least one person had to be fired from the team every year.

Not to mention, GM has had plenty of data to determine that the amount of money printed during Covid would lead to an economic downturn later, yet still hiring way too many people, only to fire later because of inflation and recession. Culture and Values were great when I started, but as the company has been suffering, new policies and changes have made the workplace hostile.

GM has plenty of predictive models and data that tells us how things are and will be. We have numerous data analysts who have said the same. Yet upper management doesn't take into account any of that information and makes decisions as if none of that could have been predicted. I highly suggest GM management starts taking predictive models and data analysis in finance analytics into account before making decisions, as it's all readily available and can help make better financial decisions.