Decent Job with Good People, But Terrible Management - Buyer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

2.0
22 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

* I worked with some genuinely great people who were very supportive as a team.

Cons

* Poor leadership. There are a few decent managers, but the majority are overwhelming unsupportive and don't really "manage" much. In my experience, they would offer very little support and were very much "hands off" when it came to their jobs. * The company’s idea of "efficiency improvements" is laying off large groups of people without warning or explanation. You get an email or text one day telling you your job is gone. It’s a terrible way to treat people who’ve invested time and energy into the company. This constant threat of layoffs makes it hard to feel secure or motivated, and it creates a culture of fear. * Forced ranking is a nightmare. Management ranks a certain percentage of employees as “underperforming,” even when there’s no logical reason to do so. This practice just adds unnecessary stress and makes everyone more focused on competing against each other rather than working together. It’s a culture killer. * Heavy workload leading to burnout. I was expected to work late hours and would often have to work weekends to meet deadlines with no additional support from management. It’s not sustainable, and it’s frustrating to see how little the company cares about giving employees the resources they need to succeed.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Benefits are decent……. IF you survive

Cons

Can name a few… 1. Poor leadership who hire their buddies and promote them into management level without any sense of technical or automotive knowledge 2. Lack of promotions or opportunities to move internally. If you are starting your career or mid way wanting growth. THIS IS NOT THE PLACE! YOU ARE A NUMBER! (Example, ask all the QA folks who got sacked while their managers got moved around into different roles and engineering manager roles? Not sure how that works but ok 3. Let’s talk about the business now. Leadership doesn’t care if you know or understand the business. This automotive industry is dying. They try to copy Tesla and Mary and leadership can not get the world Tesla out of their mouth. Let’s focus more on autonomy please and not trying to be like someone else…. 4. Stacking raking kills. I understand GM is a business and not a scalable one but that’s not because of the business… it’s because of the people leadership keeps deciding to keep and fire. Ffs get rid of Lowell Kercheville and Stacy Lynett. Both have done no good for either company and neither has their leaders under them. Mhmmm coincidence?

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