• The layoffs include roughly 600 jobs at General Motors’ tech campus near Detroit.
  • The layoffs represent about 1.3% of the company’s global salaried workforce of 76,000 as of the end of last year.
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    4 months ago

    Were these the employees GM tasked to build a custom infotainment system to replace CarPlay?

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      There were also cuts in other software areas. My team propulsion controls for BEVs, and we lost a couple people unexpectedly.

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        I hate to hear that. Propulsion controls is not a department I’d want to be making cuts in.

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          Yea but didn’t you know, you only need a few nerds, they don’t make any money for the company. IT always cost money.

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      The thing nobody wants, excellent.