We could slash jobs in IT by 70% and no one would notice.....they have always been extremely overstaffed and are quite frankly, not relevant to the core business. In many peoples' view, IT is full of weak links and hangers-on who should have been let go years ago.
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Wow, you guys aren't looking at it unfiltered. I'm an engineer and don't kid myself. IT takes care of my system software, hardware, my storage space in TcAE, applications I use, the video conference rooms I use, etc. They are not the business but do support it.
Everyone in IT should be required to do a rotation in the business. If they can't hack it, they don't belong. It's a car company, not an IT company.
Whether it was EDS, IS&S, HP, or Dell... IT has been the bane of GM’s existence. Some lower level folks are fine but never seen so much power tripping from leaders who hugely overestimate their importance to the company’s success. A good share of blame goes to the product side leadership for lacking the vision or conviction to effectively leverage the technology. Product development runs the same way it did 20 years ago while technology has exponentially expanded its capability.
IT isn't overstaffed so much as misstaffed. GM doesn't seem to worry as much about having the correct people in the right place so much as just enough people.
There's an old joke about heaven vs. Hell.
Heaven:
The police are British
The cooks are French
The engineers are German
The administrators are Swiss
The lovers are Italian
Hell:
The police are German
The cooks are British
The engineers are Italian
The administrators are French
The lovers are Swiss
Using this metaphor, GM IT would be Hell.
@XqBtd0K-twk you don't realize there is no more auto industry, its all software. Now go make me a fancy excel sheet and tell me how you did it so I can automate your job like GMIT is currently doing...
Agree with the OP. GM pretending to be a tech company is a total cringe fest - soon to be a dumpster fire.
Really because we employ 180,000 people working on cars and google beat us to the autonomous market. Yes lets cut the software people.
HR has always been the weak link. You control financial life and death in your hand, yet your are the most unqualified in all of corporate america, to make the decisions whom to hire or fire.
Don't ever forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0