General Motors Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Avoid this employer."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"It is the most political environment that I have ever encountered in my 19-year career. This organization has a 1960s command and control management style."

"I loved what I did for them."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"There was room to develop."

"Exhilarating and exciting."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"The opportunities for growth and to be challenged within the job itself, were endless."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"For job security purposes, have a plan B."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"I disliked the fact that the automotive industry is not recession-proof."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Benchmark all foreign competitors! Adopt some of their current strategies and policies that made them successful, and apply them to the way U.S. automakers conduct business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do not condemn employees when defects are found in their work (Ramsay's Kitchen, Biker Build-off)."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I enjoyed talking to the engineers that I supported about the new technology that they were working on. I also enjoyed attending the GM meetings that enabled me to hear about the current projects."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The GM site is an interesting place to work, but for a career, you might be better off elsewhere. I have no interviewing tips because each manager and each position may be different."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"The EDS (or HP) system support team is an isolated environment, and each system support team often works fairly independently. This can be a problem in times of emergencies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The EDS (now HP) management has the need to gear their efforts toward training and development of their people. They need to revamp their concept of pay for performance."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I was given the opportunity to grow with on-the-job training, from being an analyst to industrial engineer. My knowledge and skills were fully developed, furthering my education and training. I was mentored by two senior engineers. I was assigned to perform a sales administration project and finance GL accounts while performing industrial engineering responsibilities, with altogether experience of 16 years."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be assertive, be yourself, and be professional."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"Just like in any workplace, we each face challenges. Those challenges we have to overcome if we are to persevere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Corporate management decisions affect real people within the community, city, state, and country. The last plant manager assigned to our plant was given the hardest task to shut us down, although we are making improvements."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"It was a good learning experience."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know someone inside."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"They are slow to change."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Streamline."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I like the people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"I dislike the management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Understand the business."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I learned a lot about business and the automotive industry."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"Sometimes they were too slow to make a decision."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Streamline the processes."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I loved working with my teams and getting the best I could out of them."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"I adored this job. I was there for a good time and did all I could there. It was limited in moving up."

"General Motors was a very good place to work."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I liked everything."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Best job they will ever have."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"I disliked getting laid off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They did a good job."

"The department was closed shortly after our installation was finished. All were retired, laid off, or moved."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"It is challenging to meet the daily requirements."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be careful of offending your personal mentoring engineer and watch for economic downturns. This depression came out of nowhere and has destroyed me personally and psychologically."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"The decisions were made by committees. There was no freedom to make decisions relevant to the project, which is good and bad!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"You will need launch help in the future and engineering maintenance. I don't know if I can support, due to the effects the economy has placed on me as a person but, I am still available."

"Good experience; I learned a lot!"

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"Due to the great size of the company, I enjoyed the availability of top-notch training programs, and flexibility to move around within the company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be willing to relocate to save your job since restructuring is frequent nowadays."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"I dislike the lack of security and employment longevity."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should distribute the work pressures more fairly. I noticed that corporate offices had relatively relaxed work environments, whereas assembly plants had a lot of tension."

What don't you like about working at General Motors?

"Due to the size of the corporation, sometimes key pricing decisions were delayed as all the approvals were not in place to launch a product/program. This delayed the launch on the required date, hence losing out replying to the market/distributor needs for important tenders."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The executive staff was approached and made to understand that these delays ultimately made us lose out on shelf space/market share. They agreed and appointed key managers who could be approached when such situations arose in their absence."