It's Great Outside but Dead Inside - Software Engineer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

3.0
6 Oct 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Extremely interesting projects and technologies. 2. A lot of learning -- I mean A LOT (but in a good way)! 3. Everyone is forced to act nicely & friendly -- which is good. 4. Overall, it's much better than many other companies -- not because it's up to the expectation bar, but because other companies are much worst in most places of Ireland!

Cons

1. Dreadful and toxic hierarchy. 2. You might very probably find your boss or leader is way less experienced than you. 3. Occasional Robbery: Your team lead might take your work/idea and not give you the credit – it happens. 4. Too many boilerplate meetings. 5. Very difficult to have a good increase in your salary, and the salaries overall are not that great, they're just "okay". 6. A lot of inconvenience and inconsistency in the company protocols and values (they force you to adopt the company values while they don't!). 7. Internally, it's more like: "it's who you know, not what you know” – but that’s not new, it’s rather almost everywhere in Ireland! 8. Promotions are based on the time you spent in the company more than your contributions.

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5.0
24 Apr 2026
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Pros

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Cons

Slow mobility at such a big company

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General Motors (GM) Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. We would like to thank you for your contributions to GM and appreciate the feedback! We encourage you to speak with your leader about how you might be able to uncover new challenges and opportunities to assist in your career development.
2.0
4 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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