What do you like about working at General Motors?
"I like the everyday challenges and the friendliness of my peers."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"This constantly changes. No help from here."
What don't you like about working at General Motors?
"I dislike the directors who don't know their employees, and the upper management who says one thing and the middle management who ignores them. I also dislike the fact that diversity takes precedent over skill and knowledge."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Take a careful look at who is running the departments and ask why Is it because they know someone or is it because they know the job and their employees. I think you will be surprised at the answer."
"GM is still on its way down."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"I liked the money, location, and co-workers."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Go somewhere else. If you don't immediately become a member of the elite, you will remain a servant to the elite."
What don't you like about working at General Motors?
"I disliked everything else: management has its head in the sand (still), and the organization is a monarchy. If you are one of the chosen elite, you will succeed in spite of doing nothing but receiving reports from those doing work and making absurd decisions to help run the company into the ground."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Give up the monarchy system. Start believing what the customer is saying - through Consumer Reports."
"True to my knowledge and belief."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"I like the work environment and people."
What don't you like about working at General Motors?
"I dislike the unexpected budget cuts."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Some project managers hired do not seem to have good PM fundamentals (my experience). So my suggestion for management is to hire better PM candidates."
"The Worldwide Facilities Group has gone through drastic change as a result of the recent bankruptcy and can no longer provide rewarding growth experiences."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"I liked the opportunity to work with different regions in the world, in particular, Europe. We shared best practices and collaborated on best practices."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"It is best to use concrete examples that demonstrate the situation as it relates to the question, accompanied with what you did about the situation, or how you went about correcting the situation, and finally, describe the end result."
What don't you like about working at General Motors?
"The organization consisted of a very complicated matrix, which caused confusion on priorities."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Simplify the reporting structure of the matrix organization such that the entire group has the same set of priorities and strategic direction."
"I was there as a contractor, but was treated somewhat better than how most companies treat their contractors."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"I liked my co-workers and the automobile ambiance of the place."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If you're there as a contractor, make sure they pay you enough to live in two places at once--or move there."
What don't you like about working at General Motors?
"I went there for too little money--a mistake because, as a contractor, I needed enough to live in two places at once."
"Great place to work. However, senior executives/upper management were not flexible to change."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"I liked the great teamwork and highly skilled employees."
"I'm glad I was there THEN, and not NOW."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"It was different being in the automotive environment."
"GM Titanic sunk."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"This was the job I was born to do. I'm sad that the ship sunk. I would have stayed there for life."
What don't you like about working at General Motors?
"There was nothing I didn't like. It was a nice place to work."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"GM ended up as followers of Honda and Toyota, which is why most of their designs were always a step behind. They should have turned a blind eye to what the competition was putting out and just did their own thing."
"Heavy weights move slowly but steadily."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"I like the policy of being fair to all."
What don't you like about working at General Motors?
"I dislike the slow decision-making because of too many interdepartmental issues."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Implement Fast Response we preach to every vendor."
What do you like about working at General Motors?
"I like the excitement."
What don't you like about working at General Motors?
"I dislike the layoffs."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Keep the talent."
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