GM has confirmed that it will be laying off upwards of 1,000 salaried employees in its software and service departments worldwide.
A large chunk of the job cuts involve workers at the Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, in a bid to further reduce operating costs. Notably, these layouts come roughly a year after The General closed one of its four U.S.-based information technology offices, which affected more than 900 workers in Arizona.
“As we build GM’s future, we must simplify for speed and excellence, make bold choices, and prioritize the investments that will have the greatest impact,” an official General Motors statement reads. “As a result, we’re reducing certain teams within the Software and Services organization. We are grateful to those who helped establish a strong foundation that positions GM to lead moving forward.”
It’s worth noting that employees laid off this month will be offered severance based on the length of their tenure with the Detroit-based automaker.
In other GM-related software developments, GM Authority recently reported that Baris Cetinok and Dave Richardson were promoted to head General Motors’ Software and Services organization. Replacing former GM Software and Services Executive Vice President Mike Abbott after he stepped down due to personal health reasons, Cetinok assumed the position of Senior Vice President of Software and Services Product Management, Program Management, and Design, while Richardson took the mantle of Senior Vice President of Software and Services Engineering.
“GM’s journey toward a tech-forward future is clearer than ever, thanks to the exceptional talent within our team and the leadership of Baris and Dave,” General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra noted. “They bring energy and vision, combined with extensive technical and management experience, that will continue to strengthen our software engineering and product teams.”
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Does this mean my recurring OnStar software problems will never be fixed?
Does this mean that EVs will be getting Apple CarPlay?
Translation: “Our Triple Zero/”All Electric Future” crap failed so as always, those at the lower end of the organization have to pay the price.
So they claim to be building a tech-forward future, but they’re cutting tech support jobs? I’m not here for the upcharges caused by tech overkill, but the contradictions sound interesting.
These cuts were cutting bloat and duplicate jobs in several departments after a review was done by GM’s new Head of Software Development. This is done to streamline everything and get software done faster and with better quality. So I say good.
When GM started hiring more software people wouldn’t you think they would check to make sure that they wouldn’t be adding duplicate jobs? I guess not.
Doing what they do best.
Study hard, skip the parties, get a difficult to earn advanced degree in a leading-edge high-tech field, get hired by a major corporation, work hard, and get canned (or sacked in the U.K.).
I sincerely hope the people who were laid off find excellent opportunities elsewhere and very soon!
This has been the case in the tech industry for years. It’s a good place to work BUT don’t think for a second your job is safe. Any opportunity to move should always be considered. I speak from experience after being told that I had a job for life they came back with “sorry but we don’t need you anymore.”
Considering how many electrical glitches GM has, sounds like they were doing a crappy job.
They gotta find the money to pay for all of the 6.2 liter engines that are seizing and that they having to replace under warranty.
Montana Bob
Seizing?
Is this due to lifter failure or an entirely different problem?
Bill,
Totally different problem. 6.2 Liter Chevrolet engines have and are seizing in massive numbers due to the incorrect upper half of the the rear main bearing having been installed. The proper bearing has skirts/flanges perpendicular to the center line of the crankshaft. The skirts/flanges serve as thrust bearings for the crankshaft preventing the fore/aft movement of the crankshaft. With the skirt/flange missing from the upper half of the rear main bearing, the bearings located “down stream” of the rear main starves the other main bearings and all of the rod bearings, not totally starves, just a reduction of essential lubrication to the crankshaft bearings, mains and rods causing their premature failure.
You would ask me how I know this in such detail. Well, as I write this, my 2022 Tahoe High Country languishes at my local dealership waiting for a replacement engine and radiator. (The radiator will be replaced, as the original one [which is equipped with an engine cooler], has undoubtedly been contaminated with bearing debris which cannot be adequately removed by flushing.) Having considerable experience in building racing engines, in addition to being a Mechanical Engineer who specialized in Manufacturing Engineering for over 35 years, I asked a ton of questions of the Service Writer, (himself a former dealership mechanic) and the mechanic who performed many of these replacements and who will replace the engine in my Tahoe. They also told me that the bulk of these failures occurred on engines assembled during the Chinese Virus debacle. That tells me that the failures were/are being caused by engine-assembly persons and quality control personnel.
Montana Bob
PS: I notice that my comment and also Bill Howland’s, have many down votes. Written by gm trolls, perhaps? Me thinks that that is a distinct possibility.
Thanks,. Sounds like they have real idiots managing the engine factories. One GM plant is in tonawanda ny where I am and the only abortion they made there as far as I know was the former 5 cyl engine for the Colorado which was a joke. Dealers couldn’t get the engine to start when it went wrong.
Yeah, I’ve talked to about 4 supposed GM engineers and they always seem worried about the wrong thing.
No wonder it takes thousands of them to fix silly, almost obvious problems like dead 12 volt batteries.
Well somebody has to pay the price for the $10 billion stock buyback. How else are the poor execs going to make money on their stock options which is most of their compensation.
Exactly
Hopefully this is not just a cost cutting, bean counting decision. I think it is.
I think it’s going to hurt GM in the long run. I think many new products, autos and other things, and services will never come out, because of this.
Not to worry. Remember the work still has to be done- it is just being outsourced to China, India, and Mexico.
At gm, what IS NOT a cost cutting bean counting decision?
GM Data Processing >> EDS >> HPE >> GM IS&S >> Last 1,000 out
I tried to enhance the discussion but it was rejected. I am hoping the editor will allow this post through.
I do not know why my post was canceled but would like to understand so I can continue in the future.
I will try a shortened version and see if that is acceptable. Here it is…
GM absolutely has duplication of efforts, not just in one organization but across organizations. They have teams that are executing the same or similar tasks at the top most level but fail to leverage that know how to the teams that are not doing as well. If they cannot do this in house there is zero chance for them to leverage best practices in the industry outside of GM. They try to bring those best practices in house by hiring people from successful corporations like Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. but they are not bringing in management who can map the tasks and workflows to design and create the product, from the lowest teams to the dealership, and if they are then top management is not giving them the support to be successful.