General Motors reviews

Well, this is kind of difficult to answer. Right now it my current employer I am not too happy and getting sick of doing what I do. But that is just because of my management and the policy's that are in place where I work. Unfortunately I work so close to home that moving jobs is just not a possibility at this time given what I make per hour and the job market in my area. So I feel stuck and that is crappy. BUT! As far as my work go's , I absolutely love what I do . I don't think I could ever so anything else. I have managed to put my self in a position to make any where from 50k to 120k a year without ever having to sit behind a desk in a *** cubicle . ( the reason for the big fluctuations in pay is because of the commission base of a techs pay, it really depends on your skills and speed and available work flow. My worst year since starting this job was 29k that was 2008 because of the economy crash my average is 72k my best was 122k) The college auto class route is the cheapest way to learn your fundamentals , unfortunately no school actually prepares you to work in a dealer ship environment. All your learn in school is how cars work, what things in them do, how they go together. To be able to make money doing this you have to be able to hustle, ignore pain, solve complex problems as accurately and quickly as you can cause the quicker you finish it , the quicker you move into the next job and flag more hours. School does none of that , but it does teach you the theory behind what your doing. For example an oil change, where I work each oil change pays 3 tenths of an hour, that's 18 minutes. 18 minutes to , pull the car in, do a complete 27 pt inspection , rack and hoist the car, start draining the oil & remove filter, go to parts get oil filter, return to bay , clean off ANY oil residue from undercarriage or you get yelled at, install filter and plug , lower veh. Fill with oil , reset oil life monitor, write your story and close ticket out, park car, hang keys and drop ticket off to dispatch. 3 of those is .9 tenths, you'd have to do 29 oil changes to make a little over 8 hours, that's a *** of work ! ;-) Now think about the last oil change you did on your own car , obviously not having a lift will make it a lot more time consuming but I'll bet it wasn't anywhere near .3. I hope that Doesn't turn you off from trying it though, I just want to make sure you know what your in for because most schools won't tell you that. Now in the beginning at least in a dealership environment, if your not a lube guy your usually a helper, you'll get paid by the hour and not commission. So the hustle in the beginning is not that important , accuracy, safety and the gain of knowledge is what should be your goal. If you can set your self up as a helper with a well established technician who is not a prima-donna *** , who is willing to actually teach you stuff and not use you as a workhorse then you will have the best hands on education you can get. With a little time after that , you can make yourself a good living. Honestly it's a fun job, I work with a crew of techs who are all good guys, no one is afraid to have fun. There's tons of joking, pranks and genuinely having a good time. I really can't think of anything more to ask for , I make good money, I only spent one year in school, I don't sit at a desk , I work with my hands, every diagnostic job is a puzzle that can be fun to solve, everyone I work with likes to have an immense amount of fun, I don't think I could do anything else. It would drive me nuts. ( sorry for the rambling nature of this reply , it's late and I'm typing in a iPhone so it's s *** to type with proper structure) If you have any other questions specific or otherwise I'd be happy to answer them!

I have worked with a few REALLY good techs from japan and one austrailian. being a tech in most other countries is a very serious undertaking. in japan i think it takes quite a few years to reach master status. if you'd like a job with GM themselves im not too sure how to tell you to move forward. they do have facilitys in Europe. ALL dealerships in the united states are franchise's meaning an individual bought the rights from GM to sell and service their cars. if your good at fixing cars and quickly you can pretty much walk into most dealers and apply for a job and youll probably get it. we can usually weed out a poser in the first few days, these are the guys who dont know how to lift a car on a rack or dont know how to use the scan tool. but said they have been working for GM for 10 years. if you plan on attending university in the united states there are a lot of schools that have the General Motors ASAP program at them. it is a GM sponsered program where for 6 weeks you attend class room studies and then you spend 6 weeks working hands on at a local GM dealership. you get paid minimum wage while working there too which is pretty nice. with that program when you finish school you a a GM certified tech with some work experience established so it would be pretty easy to get a job in the industry.

This is a really good question!!! I have only had one employer (by that I mean service manager) ask me do something shady. they were short on labor hours and they were adding complaints to warranty tickets after the customer had picked the vehicle up. thus giving us the opportunity to "FIX" more things on the vehicle and get paid more. in turn generating more money for the service dept. I will admit that is took part in what was going down but I sure as hell didn't like it, if I rocked the boat id loose my job and its such a tight knit community in the area I work that his bad recommendation could have screwed me. now in that situation only GM was getting screwed, when It comes to customer pay cars, myself and pretty much any other tech whos been doing this for more then 3-4 years will do everything in our power to NOT *** them. at least all the guys i've ever worked for except one treated customers the way I do. it wouldn't matter what a manager said to me , if the money is coming out of the customers pocket , they're going to get exactly what they paid for, I work hard for my money and I wouldn't like it if some *** swindled it away from me so I wont do it to others. also we did have a customer one time who was such a *** we were considering putting dead fish in her door panel, we decided against it though

Bargaining rights is what it comes down to. Honda and Toyota set their working arrangements and the employees have to accept it or find gainful employment elsewhere. Unionized workers are subjected to following an arrangement that they agreed upon through negotiations by union delegates and that company representatives. Look at the recent European companies that have set up plants in the US. That's great! Really it is, American jobs are American jobs. Now look at the same with Toyota and Honda. They are paying their American workers less than they are paying workers in their own respective countries. Not allowing the American workers to form Unions like they allow in their own respective countries they are over here taking advantage of lower wage employees. Now American companies do this all the time, I highly doubt GM is paying Chinese employees what I am being paid and that is wrong.

I loved the work I did there. Challenging and exciting and mostly my leader would help me if I was stuck with a situation I couldn't answer. Also it was close to home. Your superiors don't breathe down your neck watching you perform your job.

I was contracted an last year all contractors at GM were laid off. It really left a bad taste in my mouth. I wasn't considered to be Hired direct because my manager would rather of hired his friends and former co-workers even without associates or bachleors degrees before me. I never missed work, did my job and felt I was a great employee. Never got a chance to be hired. Therefore, I was laid off with the rest of the hundreds of contract employees just like that! Being there almost 8 years - 15 years total and they would rather hired a kid right out of college who didn't know much about the business, had a poor attitude and would quit on a dime if they didn't give him the time off he requested. They is no protocol how to hired someone - just don't matter if you had the education or experience. Nepotism runs in this company also. With all of this said , I would NEVER EVER buy a GM product.EVER. I'd rather walk. A lot of people I talked to are in agreement. The way the lay-off was handled was so unprofessional. Surprised the scape goat Mary Bara still works there. I wonder what stupid move she's going to take next.employees beware.

Salary and position

Lots of overnight travel

Stable income and little travel.

Strong leadership Motivating

Customer Enthusiasm

Be myself Answer difficult questions

Above average as I was in a foreign country

I have done business in over 50 countries and traveled in over 65

Opportunity to contribute to the bottom line

Don't appreciate at the Top. Negotiating a Contract they are terrible..

Hot Plants, unless your one many of Salaried at Corporate. More Salaried on the payroll than production

Nothing. Pay is weak for the work.

I hate that no matter what i do personally at work ill never be compensated accordingly

The team I worked for, and the people

Some of the managers

Started out with 15 days vacation or PTO time off with unlimited sick days

I was able you utilize my talents in mentoring business owners

Territory changes, sometimes it made it difficult to make inroads with owners.

Self fulfillment, they offered very little in the way of perks

Organization structure and Processes

Not applicable

Work from home flexibility

Pay and healthcare is reasonable. Job security and consistent hours.

Zero chance for advancement. Horrible work environment and most employees equate it to working at or being in a prison when speaking honestly. Very sad how the work environment and company morale has changed over the years!Not much anymore. Most people used to be proud to work at GM. Now it is either just people waiting to retire, or waiting for something better to come along

Not much anymore. Most people used to be proud to work at GM. Now it is either just people waiting to retire, or waiting for something better to come along

Pay and healthcare is reasonable. Job security and consistent hours.

Zero chance for advancement. Horrible work environment and most employees equate it to working at or being in a prison when speaking honestly. Very sad how the work environment and company morale has changed over the years!Not much anymore. Most people used to be proud to work at GM. Now it is either just people waiting to retire, or waiting for something better to come along

Not much anymore. Most people used to be proud to work at GM. Now it is either just people waiting to retire, or waiting for something better to come along

Many different learning opportunities

Can be very Strenuous

All benefits. Union employment vacation medical insurance EAP

Diagnosis, automatic transmission related things & Overhauling.

Whatever useing tools are not proper.

The company's car.

In 16 years I worked up to final paint shop Inspector.

Nothing.

Good wages and benefits.

Technology tools available.

Pay is stagnant

Large number of Holidays / paid vacation

It was a stable job with a good working environment

6 day a week work every week

The pay and the medical insurance

Salary

Tired of flat rate

Senior Level, Salary, Team Leader, World Class Technician

Ability to work in different areas and to transfer.

Too many unpleasant managers.

Health care.

I like Helping others and the knowledge you gain.

I was looking for part time because of certain conditions but I was offered full time and that’s not working out fo me

Helping others, knowledge of navigation , I really enjoyed the training but I need a part time that won’t interfear with doctors schedules

free food, safety, stable work

salary

free food, good salary, safety, good environment

benefits packages

benefits are progressively being limited, work/life balance, poor management

wages

The people, the job, the pay, the benefits, the visuality of being part of building something so important to our economy.

Sometimes long hours

Retirement

Let go of serious talent when they didn’t need too. Sad for those professionals selected For dismissal by those who accomplished nothing during their careers.

Management lacks critical skills.

Flexibility

You can really shape your career path as you want. Being a large company, they provide a multitude of jobs for internal hiring s.

Environment and Culture changes site by site. Most of the 5 star reviews are coming from those at CTC or RenCen, in the manufacturing plant environment you get a different story.

GM Employee Dealer Discount

Freedom to set work itinerary and working with dealership and corporate personnel.

Company car and Expense Account

I enjoyed the variety of challenges, busy schedule

loved it there

health care, retirement plan

Education and benefits

Slow to respond due to size

I'll be working around professionals

The last year has been great as they move to Agile development. Before that... ot so much.

Lots of overtime, unpaid for IT workers. It's been a lot better the last year, ut before that... crazy.

lots of days off

Diversity

The work load and unhealthy working

The health insurance and bonuses

Once u r able to hold a job u get to know people around u and can help each other. Catching mistakes, missing parts, scratched ect... pension medical dental vision.

Job security. Physically challenging on some jobs. Easier if you are versatile and good using your right and left arm equally

Different types of jobs and shifts

Plant closed

Pay and insurance benefits and vacation accumulated and paid education

Fast paced environment working with great people. The hands on coaching and mentoring my supervisors and team leaders.

Politics

Company Car

Always busy. Most people are good

Working 65 to 90hrs a week

Health benefits

Great work/life balance. Good benefits.

Below market rate for software dev. salary. Little room for career growth.

Very flexible with in-office hours.

Great Pay

"Old School" mentality still very present. You are a tool, and if you're ok with that the pay is great.

Bonus structure

Price of their vehicles

There's nothing I don't like about GM

Price reduction of a vehicle

Wide range of opportunities, lots of cross functional opportunities, and continuous daily challenges.

Limited career advancement, very difficult to move to different function.

Company car, annual bonus, performance monetary benefits.

I'm thankful I can say that I really do enjoy going to work every day! I can't imagine working anywhere else. I had great bosses, wonderful support staff, dedicated recruiters, account managers and business development; when we all get together you can see we really are a striving towards the same goal, a successful placement - a happy ending.

Much that is written about leaders these days seems to be negative: They are incompetent, arrogant, unethical, greedy, the list goes on and on

Good environment and Bonus

The history of the company is impressive. I also like how stable it is. The work I do is rewarding and I would be hard pressed to find a better management structure.

The pressure sometimes is a lot to co temple d with. Deadlines especially and expectations are somewhat mismanaged.

The benefits package is very generous compared to companies I have worked for in the past. I like the 401k.

I have worked with a few REALLY good techs from japan and one austrailian. being a tech in most other countries is a very serious undertaking. in japan i think it takes quite a few years to reach master status. if you'd like a job with GM themselves im not too sure how to tell you to move forward. they do have facilitys in Europe. ALL dealerships in the united states are franchise's meaning an individual bought the rights from GM to sell and service their cars. if your good at fixing cars and quickly you can pretty much walk into most dealers and apply for a job and youll probably get it. we can usually weed out a poser in the first few days, these are the guys who dont know how to lift a car on a rack or dont know how to use the scan tool. but said they have been working for GM for 10 years. if you plan on attending university in the united states there are a lot of schools that have the General Motors ASAP program at them. it is a GM sponsered program where for 6 weeks you attend class room studies and then you spend 6 weeks working hands on at a local GM dealership. you get paid minimum wage while working there too which is pretty nice. with that program when you finish school you a a GM certified tech with some work experience established so it would be pretty easy to get a job in the industry.

I had a 2008 Malibu once that had a problem with the brake lights staying on. I completely checked everything in that car relating to the stop lamps. Replaced the body control module , brake pedal position sensor and completely restrung the circuits and it still had the problem. Even our factory field engineer we called out couldn't fix it so the customer got the car bought back by gm. So I never did figure it out. Recently a new recall was released on Z body cars. ( Malibu & G6) that is supposed to correct that condition. It had to do with wire tension and microscopic corrosion in the body control module causing if.

Improve gas efficiency on vehicles immediately. Average day is waking up at 4:30am, getting ready for work, packing lunch and getting to work around 6am. Work from 6:30ish am to 2:35ish pm. For now it's a job, I don't see a future here personally, I do not want to do this for 30 years+++. I've been aggressively seeking other gainful employment for the last 2 years but it's tough.

They didn't almost go bankrupt, that was a con to weaken the UAW and ship jobs overseas. I assume you're talking about change quality etc, well I can tell you that most employees and engineers take their jobs very seriously and strive for the best quality possible. GM used the bailout as a means to trim costs (ditch Pontiac, Hummer, Saab; weaken UAW by getting into bed with them; ship jobs overseas and stamp world market on the package)

There are two myths in the car business. One is true, one is not. Buying a car the last few days of the month WILL save you money. We are trying to hit goals and bonuses, especially with the manufacturer. That is a great time to buy. Coming in 10 minutes before we close, is NOT a good way to buy a car. We have been here for 12 hours, and we just want you to leave. We do not add Additional Profit on our cars. We rarely get sticker price, but I did get sticker for the first Camaro Convertible we sold.

I started in 1991. It was a lot of fun. Interestingly enough, until I became the Sales Manager, I made more money the next year as a sales person than I had the year prior, up until last year... and it was within $2500... I have only sold GM and only here at this dealership, so the crazy that was the import places, we never saw. But it was waaaaay more fun in the mid 90's, yes, I concur!

Net Profit on used is about $1800 New Cars is pathetic... maybe $1200 a copy. Commission rate for the guys is 15% of Gross profit on New (including all holdback) and 30% of gross profit on Used. Best selling car these days is the Malibu. (Which incidentally has a mark up of about $1000 from stem to stern) and is a great car.. We sell between 55-75 per month between new and used. We are pretty small, but have been here for 50 years.