Working at General Motors in Pontiac, MI: 36 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Pontiac, MI Area

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I like the learning opportunity."

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

"I dislike the big corporation and the decision-making policy."

"GM is professional."

"GM has adequate compensation but limited career growth potential."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I like the great people."

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

"There is limited career growth and salary/promotion freezes."

"GM is my current employer but I cannot continue my career with them."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I can apply my experience and education to critical job applications and continuous improvement projects."

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

"The company is too big, and change takes too long."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the team members working the jobs. They are the key to a company's success."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I was given an opportunity to pursue the best world-class education and training in the sheet metal stamping field, which could only be obtained by working at GM. I am forever grateful."

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

"We got a lot of bad press that really didn't reflect reality. GM products meet or exceed competition on every level."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The best eyes and ears of any company are from those of the people on the production floor. The best managers I have ever worked for realized this and used it to the corporation's benefit."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"The tools available for engineering are magnificent. The product is great. Besides, I like engines and powertrains, and that is what I'm working on!"

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

"It can be a magnificent place to work, but they narrow cast openings and tend to stick people in jobs without any intention to develop them, unless you are a hi-pot (high potential) candidate."

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

"I dislike the management culture's belief in heroes, which is part of a belief that nothing is done wrong by leadership; it's just that the idiots who've latched onto the company are too stupid to execute their work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow and encourage more career broadening. Also, keep an eye out for supervisors who radio in PMPs!!! (i.e., not really doing them). Fire managers who are too gutless to promote their departments. If (on the other hand), what looks like weak managers who are not promoting their departments were put there precisely to gut those departments, just be rid of the damn department. Fire that manager AND the person who put him there."

"Horrible."

"It has been a GREAT ride!"

"GM enhanced my skills and knowledge levels to be more marketable."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I liked the opportunity to work with diverse departments internally, and with key suppliers all over the world. The knowledge and skills I learned being a contract employee were excellent."

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

"I think the new GM will be back on top soon!"

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

"I would have loved to get hired directly, but my boss at GM treated me just like a regular hired in employee."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Put quality and customer service first."

"GM is a dysfunctional company not focused on what's best for the company. They are more focused on building little kingdoms."

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

"There is too much bureaucracy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let the people at the working level do what's best, and don't hand down edicts from on high."

"GM is a good place to work."

"A good place to work."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"It's a very professional organization, which had a good balance of work with personal time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to work on and research innovative products."

"Very satisfied."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I like the opportunity for continuous education and career growth."

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

"Be yourself."

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

"The plant I work at is scheduled to close."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give more notice to employees when closing plants."

What do you like about working at General Motors?

"I like the responsibilities."

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

"Honesty."

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

"There is no room for growth."

"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."