Two mega-titans of the automotive industry are pitted against each other for today’s Culture Showdown: Toyota and General Motors. How is Toyota’s company culture? How happy are employees at General Motors? Which company offers more substantial benefits? Let’s see what Comparably’s data tells us about how employees of both company feel.
About Toyota’s company culture, one employee writes, “Good people to work with… The work itself is boring, tedious, and repetitive, but we manage to have fun in other ways via office competitions, giveaways, prizes, fun meetings, etc.” One less enthusiastic worker adds, “team is not passionate, needs to show more interest in cars as a whole.”
General Motors culture is “extremely inclusive,” writes one GM worker. “All types of people, from many different backgrounds, working together for a common goal.”
A Toyota employee writes of the company’s leadership, “overall good leadership, company does well to follow their core principles of respect for people.”
About GM’s CEO Mary Barra, one worker writes, “I have great respect for the CEO. I thought the way she handled the Cobalt ignition switch recall was extremely admirable.” Another adds that company leadership “needs to get better at timing of large public annoucements.”
One Toyota worker writes, “This company pays fair.” Another complains that “jobs with the exact same title and in the same industry pay on average 20–30% more.”
About their compensation package, a GM employee tells us the company pays an “overall decent amount of money.” Another calls the pay “competitive.”
While generally unenthusiastic about Toyota’s benefits package, one employee writes that “the benefits outweight the mediocre pay scale.”
A GM worker raves, “My family is able to have fantastic healthcare that does not cost us anything.” A second wriites, however, that the “benefits are sub-par for a big company.”
A Toyota worker says there is “lots of diversity” but it exists outside of the executive branch.
As far as GM, one employee touts the company’s “diversity of management opportunities for women and minorities.”
