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Beware! - Senior Manufacturing Engineer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

I can't think of too many right now, due to their dire financial situation. About ten years ago it was a decent place to work. Competitve pay, good benefits, profit sharing, lots of vacation and holidays.

Cons

Everything right now. It is looking like they are heading towards bankruptcy. There are massive cuts coming in the salary ranks. Those that are left will be taking pay cuts. Our benefits have been getting cut the last several years. We have only had one pay raise in the last five. It is not a fun place to work right now. Advancement has always been pretty poor, unless you were related to someone or knew someone higher up.

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5.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Great work life balance and benefits. People leaders have been great in my experience. Good mentorship opportunities and career options.

Cons

Performance based culture has a direct impact on bonus and pay raises. Creates a competitive workplace environment. Great for high performers, but major downside for low performers. Career advancement is very competitive given the large company nature

2.0
Jul 4, 2026
Recommend
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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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