GE Reviews

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Plenty of work to go around, whether on customer projects or new product development. Good working environment where everyone has an office of their own. The salary is competitive for the area. I generally enjoy the people that I work with. Minimal drama.

Cons – Legacy product with little room for incorporating new technologies in any substantial way. Not many opportunities for advancement outside of management.

Advice to Senior Management – We need less upper management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The schedule is very flexible. - Flexibility
The leaders are in place to make sure that the company succeeds - Leadership

Cons – It is a business based off of culture.
Does not allow for outsiders to grow and prosper.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – There are many super-talented, experienced, creative and impressive people working in GE. Unfortunately, those people rarely advance to become senior leaders within the company, but they are wonderful people to work with. The GE culture is tough, demanding and aggressive. I say those things all in a positive light, as my own personal style closely matches the "GE persona."

Cons – For the past several years, most senior managers are not leaders, visionaries, and can easily pitch out buzzwords and speak about "driving growth" "innovation" and "collaboration."

In reality, most senior managers care exclusively about managing their own resumes to land their next gig either in GE or elsewhere. If you want to be inspired and learn from senior leaders, get a good book or watch an inspiring TED Talk. You won't find it here.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop promoting people who are nothing but "taking heads" who simply repeat empty, meaningless buzzwords that they don't understand themselves. There is a tremendous pool of talented employees within the ranks with more active braincells than most of the folks sitting in corner offices. What a shame.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The pay and benefits were good, ample training was provided, company values were in line with my beliefs

Cons – Competing metrics between departments often led to inefficiencies, stressful environment at times, understaffed and took a long time to backfill vacated positions

Advice to Senior Management – Allow young, high potential employees to move laterally and gain different expertise and explore interests.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at GE as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great technology, smart minds, forefront of the industry

Cons – Very rigid research environment, lack of social environment made it difficult to go to work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at GE as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Competitive pay, room for growth, great training

Cons – Too corporate, slow to reactive to ideas

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – - great businesses built for the future
- strong quality of co-workers
- constant acquisitions which provide personal growth opportunities
- good compensation for strong performers
- fantastic personal development opportunities both skill set and learning/training

Cons – - I work 10-12 hours a day with frequent weekend "catch-up"
- email is incessant... there are very few admins so you have to balance strategy with tactical
- the better you perform the more you get until you leave while poorer performers in the same job/band fly under the radar without much repercussion

Advice to Senior Management – GE has become overly matrixed and bureaucratic - too many approvals, tie-offs across multiple lines of business and regions while not enough holding people accountable for delivering for our customers and shareholders.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Get to work on great game-changing products and technologies

Cons – Senior mgmt consistently disregards estimates of level of effort to get jobs done, putting the team in no-win situations. Working hard is one thing, undue and unnecessary stress is another.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your people who are your greatest asset. You don't want to kill the geese who are laying golden eggs for you.

Former Employee – worked at GE full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good Salary, Good Benefits, Oppurtunity to move between businesses, Diverse Experience

Cons – Everyone is just a number, Either compromise your ethics or you will not move up in the company, lots of managers that are inept and got there because of years in and politics

Advice to Senior Management – Actually enforce the Spirit and Letter Policy, Break down politicing and cronyism, take a look at what is really going on at the lowest levels of the company, I guarantee you would be embaressed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time

Pros – OPPORTUNITIES TO MOVE INTO DIFFERENT ROLES.

Cons – At GE transportation atleast management is extremely old fashioned and hypocritical. They say it is a meritocracy but favouritism and even racism is rampant. Punctuality and adherene to beruecratic procedures is given more importance than creativity and innovativness. They would fire even Edison in a flash.
Jeff Immelt is on President Obama's Job council but my manager thinks he looks like a monkey. Complained about this to our HR but he went unpunished and i was retaliated against. Also safety culture is lacking. Offices and toilets are filthy. There are rusted containers everywhere...

Advice to Senior Management – Follow the letter and spirit of the company's fair employement practises and don't punish people for reporting safety violations. Also stop cheating unsuspecting customers.