General motors is outdated and needs a facelift. - Intern General Motors (GM) Employee Review

2.0
8 Mar 2009
Recommend
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Pros

General Motors is a large manufacturing company and employs thousands of people. Thus, there is lots of opportunity to grow and learn the different facets of manufacturing if that is what you want to do. They have awesome buildings and loyal people who have helped this company function for 100 years. They pay a good salary and have one of the best total overall compensation packages anywhere. They have lots of experienced people who are proud of what they do and where they work and you can almost always find someone to relate to and there is a good sense of camraderie at the company.

Cons

Because general motors is so big and old, that is part of its success but also part of its failure. It has to manage a large number of people and models all over the world and it seems like it is doing a bad job of this. Because it has been around a long time, its employees are proud of what they do and where they work. This is good but is also bad because new ideas from fresh employees are discouraged and thus the fresh employees lose their creativity and the fresh ideas are non existent and thus the company continues to build the same products over and over and do not adapt to the changing consumer.

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5.0
6 July 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
4 July 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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