GE Aviation Reviews

Pros

Engineers are willing to help you and teach you. They like their jobs a lot and try to stimulate your interest in working in that field.

Cons

The location is kind of empty, but this is supposed to be a good site for a technical field company.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is fine, and a lot of activities with your colleague. The managers are always willing to help you and teach you new stuff.

Pros

Plenty of opportunities to grow your expertise both in depth and breadth.
Who wouldn't like working with gas turbine engines.

Cons

Engineers are treated as a resource, a dime a dozen.
Many employees like what they do but dislke the company
Senior engineers would not recommend spending a career at GE.
There is little opportunity for advancement.
Pay is poor relative to industry average. If Engineering "leadership" truely belives that they have the best engineers then at least get our pay to the right side of the bell curve.
Leadership at GE is self serving.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut the rhetoric. Stop saying we hear your concerns and we are listening and then in the next sentence say that if you don't like it then maybe GE isn't the place for you. HR assumes that since there isn't a mass exodus of people leaving the company then things must be ok.

Pros

- Plenty of ways to gain knowledge/real-world experience
- Ability for continuous rotations in different roles allow for various experiences
- In general the full-time employees are very helpful

Cons

- If you aren't proactive there are certain roles that you may do nothing
- It's a corporation: getting access to the things you need to work can take weeks

Pros

Extremely smart workforce, flat organization

Cons

Poor benefits, bureaucratic, compensation not even industry standard.

Pros

Opportunity to take many courses.

Cons

Terrible health coverage (costs went up significantly), much too much emphasis on meaningless goals & objectives, only way to climb the ladder is via management, little respect given to majority of employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your employees more. Otherwise they'll leave.

Pros

Great training opportunities. Fair benefits, fair pay - not standard for area.
Great networking with talented people from other sites. Rewarding charity events frequently available. Minimal micro-management, self starters appreciated.

Cons

Great for the "kool aide" drinkers, it's "Russian Roullette" for the rest of us. If you don't play follow the leader regardless of the questionable ethics involved you can bet your days are numbered.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep in mind you hired intelligent people. Speaking out of both sides of your mouth (and devoid of the "Spirit & Letter") is usually recognized early on....

Pros

Flex work schedule
Not much more to say

Cons

Pay not competitve
-Incompetent lower and middle managers- too many meetings, ppt presentations, lack of respect for the regular workers.
No growth opportunities for anyone with years of experience, except the "chosen" few on the fast track system, and you have to be young also.
Everything now is a "Green-Belt or Black belt" project-I mean everything ! All the "Black Belts" that work here, are missing one thing-lack of experience and commen sense-
When GE took over, it seems like we lost a lot of commen sense in problem solving abilities.
The engineers that could solve a lot of the production problems are being replaced with lean teams lead by a black belt- "diverse groups of people"that have absolutely no knowledge of a process "they spend countless hours in meetings trying to dissect a simple problem that could be solved by one or two competent engineers. Its pathetic. But I guess it good for the egos of the "Black Belts" and it helps them reach thier quota of projects , in order to obtain thier next promotion .

Advice to Senior Management

GE has reached Global Success in the world by buying and selling businesses, and somewhere in the process, we have lost something that directly affects the american worker, how sad.
You people on the fast track-its not your skills that got you there, its the other people that you leverage that you use to fatten your own paychecks

Pros

Lots of opportunities to learn. Excellent training program. You will be kept on the edge of tomorrows technology. Nice pension plan.

Cons

Very demanding in amount of work that is required. There is no way to get by with forty hours a week, this is more like 60.

Advice to Senior Management

You are over looking your work force when you keep promoting only the youth on leadership programs. You need to keep the mix with the forty somethings too.

Pros

great technology, love the product, company cares about customers. Great people at the working lev, plenty of work to do, no deadwood.

Cons

Management in a bubble, not aware of how things work. Benefits are terrible. HR is a revolving door and don't care about anyone not labelld a hi-pot

Advice to Senior Management

Bring us back to a meritocracy- diversity should be a tie breaker, not a key criteria for advancement. Engineering needs strong engineers as leaders, not people-persons

Pros

People are friendly and nice.

Cons

workload is heavily separated so you'd be doing the same type of work for a while.