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Q&A With General Motors Employees
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How employees describe working at General Motors
Greast dependable caring fun dedicated
Good company, pay is okay
Great company great benefits great people
My boss should not be in a leadership position but overall, I like working for the company and have no plans to leave.
The work on the line is very hard on your body.
What it's like to work at General Motors
- General Motors employees generally work 9.0 hrs a day
- Employees at General Motors report the work pace is comfortably fast
- On a typical day, employees at General Motors have 2 meetings
- 79% of General Motors employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- General Motors employees most often take 20-30 paid vacation and sick days each year
- 67% of General Motors employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- General Motors employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Once a month
- 61% of General Motors employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With General Motors Employees
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What does the leadership team at General Motors need to get better at?
Top Employee Response
Truly driving the IT transformation. GMIT is seen as order-takers for business and sometimes treated as a cost center instead of a value-add
At Fort Wayne, in the passed 3 years a lot of good GL. And Superintendents. Leave this plant because of the clic atmosphere. The assistant p
Realizing the #1 asset is the people. There needs to be a balancing of goal directives and the impact of the abuse of the working people.
What needs to change to make the company culture better at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
A respect of people, and there wants to remain a part of goals set =to goal met and a balance of family and work.
Working together to uptain the same goal . Stop putting lazy people in charge
Better relations with the union and management.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
Teams with bad management hate their lives and each other.
Better communication between each other.Quality, more pride in their job.
Mgmt won't follow GMS correctly. They do the minimum and only what will benefit them, not the corporation as a whole.
How's the work life balance at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
Working for General Motors is brutal they care nothing about their employees. We used to have a saying about General Motors to General Motors a person is nothing but a pair of hands with a number attached and once your hands a shot your number is up. General Motors had destroy almost as many employees live Then people that Hitler murdered
For me I find life at work terrible. I find managers who cowardly deal with Union issues, twist the facts to make themselves look good to their superiors and then pat themselves on the back with a job well done. I have been able to put this hypocrisy behind me once I leave work and not take it home with me. Hopefully I will be able to continue to do so.
Work life balance is not very good. Working every weekend leaves no time for family.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
As a skilled worker we are under paid based I the prevailing wage in our state. We have been out paced in the last couple years vs others
I feel GMS witch is what the company states is it vision. Is being used less and less.
When I started in 1995 I made more per hour than I do still today with the lose of cola and other things l.
What do people at General Motors think about the CEO? What do they do well and what can they improve?
Top Employee Response
In my department at General Motors, we don't think about her as anything special. 20 million dollars a year pay check, and they think we make to much. Plus nothing has changed since the bankruptcy, just have cash on hand to blow on useless over managed mistakes
I have great respect for the CEO. I thought the way she handled the Cobalt ignition switch recall was extremely admirable. I know she has bigger issues to deal with than the problems I see continue at my level but I wish she could be exposed to the true culture at Design Fab shops at the Warren Tech Center and see how she would handle it.
Great CEO, very good at bringing new products to market quickly. Need to improve on holding vendors accountable for quality of the parts.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
Not adhering to treating ppl correctly. Mngt team members, culture
The supervisor have to change there attitude and respect the employees or it is only going to get worse
Communication, adequate tooling and proper training. Job balance unfairly
What is the best part about your compensation package at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
.86 raise for 10 years is no where near enough
That employees share in the success of the company.
The profit share bonus!
What are some of the best things about your team at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
A common bond of pride, experience and talent bonds is.
Senior employees giving their all before retirement to the next generation!
Everyone collaborates effectively and are all focused on achieving the same goal.
What makes you most happy at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
The people I work with they r like family
Challenging task and new technology
Working with my Co-workers and Management.
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
Stop promoting people who seem to only be career-driven. They only care about their accomplishments and not about their subordinates, whom they overload with too much work, thus focusing on them not meeting timelines. This causes a high degree of stress for the employee as well as destroying any semblance of work / life balance.
Work with getting employees, earned time off, so we can have a like outside of General Motors. Plus maybe less employees would on sick leave and FMLA.
Hire better people who don't harass or stab others in the back.
Do you spend time with your co-workers outside of work?
Some are very close friends
Yes
Yes, at least once a month
What is most positive about the culture and environment at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
A prolific environment offering challenges accession and advancement recognizing performance while supplicating integrity and impeccability.
Friendly, caring, and working safely together to help our Customers move safely though Life.
People work well with each other even if they don't like the other person we know we got a job to do and we get it done.
How's the vacation policy at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
Good. We get 20 days after 2 years.
How is it? It sucks for anyone that's not under the newer contract. We have use when MGMT tells us.
Ugh the worst , they tell you one date and then they change their mind . Can't plan ahead
What benefits does General Motors provide?
Top Employee Response
401k = 4% automatic contribution + 4% matching contribution = 8% total company contribution Generous Bonus based on company and personal performance. 10% and higher depending on level. Tuition Assistance up to 8k per year PTO is 3 weeks starting, 4 weeks after 3 year years of service Sick time is worked out with your manager Health Care is HDHP, but company contributes $1500 to HSA for employee. $1500 is the deductible for a single employee so for them it works out. Not so great for families.
401k contribution, Vacation, High deductible health insurance, HSA contribution
Great health benefits
What do you like best about the leadership team at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
They are fair but firm. There is always a sense of good faith between employees and manager.
They set stretch goals that are relevant to the success of GM.
Motivated to develop personnel with a leadership staff that can recognize potential and identify areas that could be holding you back.
What part of General Motors's business is growing fastest? What part is having difficulties?
Truck division is growing fast. Car market seems to be having difficulties compared to our competitors
The market is so volatile, one day I could say Europe, the next it could be South America or Asia..then all this can flip flop and the next thing you know ...we are thru in a particular country.
Fastest is wasting money ! So much waste and they blame the workers . After a while the workers are tired of all the blame and give up
What tools or training programs do you have to help set you up for success?
Top Employee Response
Internal course training, on the job learning
Not very many tools offered to help. A lot is just learned as you go
Not that many anymore
What are your coworkers at General Motors like?
Very competitive with each other. A lot are to busy worrying about getting to next level than working together as a team.
Mostly negative, because of overloaded jobs
I work with a great group of people
What are you most excited about working at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
Being part of a company that welcomes the challenges of being a leader in automotive automation.
Work does not stimulate or excite me. I am happy that I can be paid well enough to forget how hard I work for the pay.
Profit sharing and exciting new technology for new products in the near future
What is the PTO policy at General Motors?
Top Employee Response
15 days for under 2 years at the company and then 20 days from 2-5 years at the company. Very fair! Sick days, company holidays and parental leave do not count against your PTO.
Complicated and short of hours needed
There is no pto they took that away a long time ago
What is General Motors' policy towards pets in the workplace?
Management keeps their engineers on a leash
No pets
I'm not sure of the exact policy but you don't see animals in the workplace unless they are true service animals. And I'm good with that.
What is the best advice you could give someone during their first month at General Motors?
Watch who you trust
Voice your honest opinion & not what you think others want to hear
Ignore all the rumors.
What does the ideal candidate in the Engineering department look like at General Motors?
Young female person of color
Preferably one with Hands-On knowledge versus just book knowledge
Young, Master's degree, from out of state
How challenged are you at General Motors?
The GM team wants an extraordinary effort without allowing time for it
Very challenged
In the Design Fab shops not very. Managment tries to make it look like they want to improve and deal with issues but the reality is they sweep as many issues under the rug as they can. They operate under a do not make issues mentality rather than a let's solve issues and focus on continuous improvement
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41% of General Motors employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 22% are neutral and 37% would not recommend working at General Motors to their friends.
| 41% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 22% | Passive |
| 37% | Detractors |
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