General Motors Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
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I was able to raise my family but I had to sacrifice my career and life to do it.
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Stressful , uncertain, uncaring, and they lie to you about everything
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Honesty, transparency, and they realize that people are the greatest asset
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They motivate to get great results
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The inclusion of all the team members creating a comfortable working atmosphere allowing all of the team members to continue their career grow.
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Great management in certain areas of company. Only have experience in engineering. Friendly place to work with great benefits and opportunity.
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Needs to improve.... we all do to reach excellence
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Treating knowledgable hard working people respectfully. Only the laziest of people get opportunities ... Most likely because they can be used as an excuse for the incompetence of the leadership and human resource groups.
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Caring about their employees and their career goals.
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The managers are more concerned about nominal metrics instead of strategic decision making
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Leading, GMS is terrible and not the answer. We make cars we need to concentrate on that not where a garbage can goes.
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Need to get better at timing of large public announcements and stop growing at the executive level.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
The pay is higher than most other automotive company pay
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Healthcare benefits, retirement plan support are outstanding.
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Bonuses are pretty good overall
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bonus and # of vacation days
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None that helps, it is good
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
I'm a technician that is coerced into leading a department, every person in my chain of command covers each others lies.
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Have been with the company 5 years and I am making the same amount of salary as a new hire right out of school in the same job but with less responsibilities than I have.
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Sick days and time off to take care of your needs and needs of your family.
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After retirement my 401 was reduced substantially. Moreover, my life insurance decreases with time. How is that fair?
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General Motors does not value their contract employees and is resistant to direct hires. As well, they're Management is very selective about enforcing their standards and is willing to sacrifice good talent over trivial matters
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What are some of the best things about your team?
The culture and collaboration and the people that are down to earth and good folks
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They work heard to get the job and to help each other
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It is a multicultural team with a complete range of problem solving approach, a lot of brain storming ideas. All looking forward to satisfy the expectations of the costumer working as a one team and winning with integrity.
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They've become friends over the years
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Group of very competent individuals willing to help where needed.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Constant bickering and they all push the work off on to others. Management and human resources needs to be replaced so that better people can be given a chance.
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We need managers to understand their employees strengths.
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They need to be less selfish and less sensitive, they think the world revolves around them.
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Great team, lots of challenges
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Need to have higher expectations from leadership. And have leadership hold coworkers accountable for workmanship.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The GM values are set forth, led by example, and have made gm a more effective and profitable comany
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Looking ahead on the current area of opportunity and planning for better ideas and solution at reduced cost with a very optimistic and positive team work.
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focusing on the future and making the world a better place while still turning a profit
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Improving great place to work
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The Team is very helpful
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
People need to get off their phones and laptops and do their jobs. These are lazy people that spend their days on social media and stand around and scheme to make others lives miserable.
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Commitment and execution by management on valuing their employees correctly.
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Stop laying off the people who understand the systems. Especially, since you are making $12B. Managers used the salaried reduction to get rid of people they did not like while keeping contact employees.
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The seniority process and training
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Need to hold skilled trades person accountable for the work they do. Stop the "It's good enough" attitude.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
Having real conversations about work
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The discussion with multiple people.
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it felt like the interviewers were on my side
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Is reliable and challenging great place
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
It was a joke now that I look back on it. They told me everything I wanted to hear. I fell for it hook line and sinker, I was young and had a new family to take care of. I don't think they are capable of improving they need to be truthful.
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What makes you most happy at work?
Seeing the work I do come to life and delight customers. Getting to experience something that I helped design
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Being able to help my coworkers and continue to improve the BOE/BOP of our manufacturing. New technologies evaluation at lower cost.
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Yes I do, good experience
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Being able to deliver for my team and company
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I like what I do in my Job
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The only leadership that gets hired are people that can be easily motivated to lie cheat and use people to benefit their own careers.
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Feel very unappreciated and unfairly compensated for my work.
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Bad middle management, upper management aren't interested on really hearing from workers. They believe the happy picture that middle management paints.
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Managers make decisions based on race and not ability to get the job done.
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Better leadership and less “yes men”. Bosses need to know when things are out of wack and going wrong and be ok wit
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What do you like best about your company?
Salary and benefits, nothing else.
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Large Scale
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Upper management to really put middle management under the microscope.
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Higher Pay
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