Negative environment created from leadership strategy - Manager, Software Engineering General Motors Employee Review

Lots of overtime opportunities including weekends and holidays

No work life balance for the amount of work

Prior to 2019 the work environment was good. I worked with many talented Developers and mentored many who wanted to propel their careers. I had great relationships with my Management and was recognized and compensated for my achievements. I was also given leniency to try out different development roles i.e reporting, etl, database, application development.

Base pay when I got hired was peanuts. After prorated raises and market adjustments, I had a good salary. You will work with some egotistical Senior Architects that will throw you under the bus before they ever admit they were wrong. You will get thrown new college hires that have no Development experience and have to babysit them through simple tasks which is fine but some never grow as Developers. Constant teams meeting that could be resolved with team chats. Constant layoffs that reduced morale to an all time low. Shift in AI having Developers integrate it with their projects. Working with incompetent data teams for those who know the org its five characters long. In my last 3 years employees I was spending 10-12 hours a day trying to make sure we met deadlines due to bad Development leadership which pretty much caused me to burn out and quit.