Where GM Went Wrong and How They Can Improve
Where GM Went Wrong and How They Can Improve
Good to very good salary and benefit packages, generally speaking. Good performance reviews. In general, the people I worked with were sharp, hardworking, and capable.
Too many reorganizations made for new supervisors all the time. There was little connection with the performance of the company, and it was easy to feel unimportant and that personal efforts made no difference. There was a big union atmosphere/culture in salary ranks, meaning that employees only needed to do so much. In general, the people I worked with were hard workers and capable, but their talents were underutilized. Top management was not able to manage the company for growth and usually managed in a reactionary way.
Go on the offensive to stop losses to other OEM competitors.
Vehicle/Product improvements aren't the only way to do this. GM was and still is uncompetitive due to a high cost structure, which was built up over the decades.
Diversify: concentration on the car and truck business alone is not a wise, long-term strategy.
Hire a CEO/President from outside the auto industry with proven effectiveness.
This is all advice that was obviously never taken, and thus the situation deteriorates to this day.
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Warren, Michigan, United StatesSeptember 1, 2020Step 1: Applied online on GM website and got a call from HR. (Basic needs: timings, salary required). Very polite and to the point. Step 2: HireVue 4 questions. Basic STAR method questions. Will have retries and time between retries to submit the r
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Warren, Michigan, United StatesMarch 1, 2017It went on for an hour. It was one face-to-face interview, mostly resume-based questions, about past experience, tools, and about your former education. It also included questions about the projects I had on my resume and the details of the tools and
