GM IT - nothing but lies - Associate Software Developer/Tester/QA/Junior BA General Motors (GM) Employee Review

2.0
19 May 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

not many. A good pay for a job right out of college. Young environment since they have hired about 3,000 college hires nationally in the past year for IT.

Cons

- do not care at all about career development even though they will preach to you that they do - managers do not care at all about the big picture of the company - treat college hires like dirt and give them no responsibility at all - tell you its very easy to move around within the company if a role is not a fit for you, HUGE LIE - All processes are non existent yet you have to follow them....nuff said - so many people in roles they are not qualified for and no one cares to train them - Training is a joke at this company and non existent for detailed skills - reward employees based on seniority not over intelligence and hard work In the end all the "promises" used to get me to commit were all lies when I actually got to GM.

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Pros

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2.0
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Pros

Benefits are decent……. IF you survive

Cons

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