GE Aviation Reviews

Pros

People are experts and thera is a strong culture focused on safety. Very rigorous and challenging work because people know that they literally hold people's lives in their hands. Genuine attempts being more recently to be transparent in terms of business decisions. Decent salaries..and by and large, based on merits. The company really encourages giving back to the community.

Cons

The facilities are really old...and need a lot of work. Some of us have worked in the basement for years!

Advice to Senior Management

Keep communicating - listen to your people all the time, not just at the time of employee surveys!

Pros

Above average salary.
Availability of overtime (if your face fits)
Pretty good benefits package

Cons

No promotion unless you're a yes man and under 30
Poor salary increases despite working your **** off
Internally focused
Poor leadership and management at all levels
Lack of focus and strategy
Unbelievable bureaucracy
Poor customer focus. More a case of this is how we think it should be done, rather than what the customer wants.
Quality and testiing processes are poor

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your employees and they will take care of you. Get out of the Stewart Hughes days and show some backbone. Focus on the customer. Simplify your business and processes. Bring in/promote credible experienced leaders and engineers who have expertise in the job.

Pros

Above average salary.
Availability of overtime.
Comprehensive benefits package available to Interns.
Wealth of opportunity to improve the site.
Many different projects available to get involved with.
Low stress environment.
Application process is highly personal

Cons

Problems faced with are not often very challenging.
The site is stuck in a time warp, the software used to track parts dates to 1989...
Recently acquired by GE legacy of former company needs to be put behind it.
British attitude is poor at best.
Managers often micro manage and don't utilise the work force to its maximum potential.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop focusing on frivolous non-added-value activities and micro managing. The potential of this site are enormous under strong and committed leadership.

Pros

- Strong brand
- Company heritage
- Training programs

Cons

- Tremendous bureaucracy
- Internally focused
- Poor leadership and management at mid & upper levels
- Lack of focus and strategy

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your employees and focus on the customer! Simplify your business. Bring in/promote credible, experienced leaders who have expertise in the job and business they are assigned.

Pros

-Prestigious
-Work that makes a difference
-Work on some of the coolest machines in the world
-Great work/life balance
-Decent pay

Cons

-Everything else. This company is too big, too bureaucratic. Management won't tell you if you're doing something mediocre or wrong, but instead call HR that afternoon and you'll be gone in a week. It happened to a few of my colleagues, and realized it could've happened to me even though I did what I was told and beyond.

-As an aerospace engineer, this company is too mechanical. They asked for AE's, yet we did ME work. Not worth my college degree.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees with more respect. Random layoffs aren't worth the years of investment.

Pros

You have job security even if you don't meet the numbers as long as you buy into their "growth values"

If you come up through the OMLP training you are set for life.

Having GE on your resume looks good.

You are promoted regardless of performance or goal achievement as long as you came in as an OMLP, utilize mentors that are still within the organization, and send emails from your Blackberry at all hours, including weekends to the rest of the team to show your dedication...

Cons

Past experience, training, performance, recognition means nothing if it didn't happen at GE.
You must check your individuality at the front door because it is not appreciated within the cult.
Accept that as a manager your decision-making power is simply a figment of your imagination.
If you work at any of the non-union sites, the HR Leaders and top brass are so frightened at the thought of the facility getting unionized that controllership policies and standard disciplinary procedures are ignored putting managers, co-workers and the financial viability of the site at risk.

Advice to Senior Management

Get over yourselves.
Allow your managers to manage.
Look beyond a PowerPoing presentation and you might see that not every site or CoE within Aviation is a cookie cutter of the next....we all have different "widgets" that may require some creative management styles and understanding of that particular business. Accept that sometimes the best solutions may have been generated and proven effective OUTSIDE of GE...

Pros

The best part about working at GE Aviation is having that ownership and responsibility. It can be stressful at times, but it also very rewarding. There is a wealth of knowledge and expertise that can be tapped into to help build and grow your own career. I am very happy here.

Cons

Any downside of working at GE Aviation is the amount of work. I have a lot on my plate to get completed on time.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to do what you are doing... leading the best group of engineers in the world. GE would not have the success it has today without the excellent leadership teams pushing our organizations to achieve the best.

Pros

Great work environment and they provided cookouts for all the co-ops during the summer

Cons

Had to work 40 hrs a week

Advice to Senior Management

Great leadership at GE Aviation. Nothing more to say. s o o o o o o u o o o o .

Pros

-Excellent professional training programs are available.
-Large company with numerous opportunities worldwide for broadening your career.

Cons

-Large, bureaucratic company with cumbersome internal processes. Very internally focused.
-Lack of customer focus and lack of product/industry/customer knowledge and depth across leadership levels.
-Very poor internal communication, lack of strategic direction, and managements inability to motivate the workforce make GE a tough place to enjoy and have a career.
-Managements lack meaningful focus on employees is manifested in high burn out and turn over rates.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on your employees. Once you have one, clearly and consistently communicate your strategic directorion to your workforce. Put strong, competent leaders (not just managers) in place and have people skills and have subject matter expertise in the areas they lead. GE has a great legacy and history to leverage - use it to your advantage.

Pros

Huge company if you're into that. Great globalization as you may talk to people in Poland in the Morning then people in Mexico in the aternoon.

Cons

Huge company and it seems like HR is difficult about giving raises. Globalization and outsourcing of engineering work is rampant.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your engineers with more priority. They are the backbone of the company and may be considerably undervalued, and more so when you outsource engineering jobs.