General Motors (GM) reviews

Reasons not to work at General Motors: below industry average salary for "worker bees", managers too worried about putting out fires, poor communication of leadership with lower management, scarce promotional opportunities due to industry conditions, most assembly plant locations are not interesting to young professionals, trying to transition jobs to lower cost regions of the world, hard to increase pay unless you take a leadership/manegerial jump (which are scarce), career development is lacking, the long term picture doesn't look good

The hours are very long. As an manufacturing supervisor during the summer, I work anywhere from ten to thirteen hours a day. I also tend to work Saturdays and about a Sunday a month. The most frustrating thing about working at GM is the communication disconnect between the UAW and management and from the floor to upper management. Supervisors and other management are simpleminded in their pursuit of attaining production numbers (ie. 2400 parts a shift). They often know what's wrong with machines, what causes delays and what creates scrap but they don't want to shut off the machines to fix them properly. There are enough "bad eggs" to make working at GM frustrating (it is pretty much impossible to get fired).