General Motors

Able to gain a lot of experience in different aspects of the software development lifecycle.

Bonuses each February are nice when the company is doing well.

If you get a good team and manager, it's fun work with the team.

Politics are big at this company (who you know, what upper management sees).

Old technologies are all over the company.

I was thrown into subpar projects and expected to do miraculous work, just to meet expectations on my year review.

Upper management does a lot of poor planning and may affect your work/life balance, causing you to work up to 65+ hours a week with no pay bump.

There were two periods of layoffs in my 6-year tenure.

• Plan project timelines much better, receiving input from developers working on the project.
• Ensure experienced managers have at least some familiarity with technologies like Angular, Galileo, Azure Sprint Boards, etc.
• Give more incentives to people doing more than they should, instead of working them to the ground.