GE Capital Reviews

Pros

Opportunities to grow
Carries the General Electric brand which is always a plus

Cons

Management tends to have its favorites. (cliques)

Pros

Wide range of businesses, roles, and locations. Professional development is only limited by one's imagination and energy. Strong networking opportunities.

Cons

In the post financial crisis years, the business has necessarily reduced opportunities to live and work abroad. Certain businesses remain insecure about future prospects.

Advice to Senior Management

Understandably, the business has moved towards a strategy of localized talent. Unfortunately, the ability to live and work in other countries is a powerful motivator for the workforce and imparts certain experiences and skills that cannot be found elsewhere. Perhaps the business should look into a less expensive mechanism than the GME process to bring back these opportunities.

Pros

Large Multinational, good opportunity to advance career

Cons

Americanisms, relying almost exclusively the quarterly performance above all else.

Advice to Senior Management

Hit the numbers and take responsibility for your own career advancement. Opportunities are there !!

Pros

Hands on work with exciting groundbreaking projects. Company is constantly on cutting edge trying new things.

Cons

Human Resources is awful. The yearly review process is backwards, they rate you and decide your pay before doing your yearly review (EMS). However, they spend millions trying to tell you how important the EMS process is... Company is quickly overlooking the integrity culture.

Advice to Senior Management

Take the time to udnertand what your HR people are doing. Stop bringing in "experts" from outside that stay less than 2 years.

Pros

Challenging environnement. Dynamic people and organisation. If you are good and passionnate, you will be able to have a promotion.

Cons

The organisation is a bit selfish in a way that they to do what they want and not always think about the "human" impact.

Advice to Senior Management

Please continue to support growth in promoting good candidate. Always remember that GE is not good because of its name, but rather because of its people.

Pros

Great work life balance, many avenues for career development and career paths under same Company umbrella. Large employer within Chicago - plan to build presence in city. Pretty good job security. New Risk Comp plan in place.

Cons

Underperforming peers get carried along. Within the Risk organization, AVP role is the toughest on work life balance, VP and higher roles are manageable.

Pros

Co-workers are very friendly and willing to help. Good work and personal balance. Good managers.

Cons

Because GE is so large, it gets very confusing to find the right information

Pros

-You work with some of the most intelligent and dedicated people around
-Challenging work

Cons

-Non existent work/life balance
-Employee benefits are constantly being reduced
-Rank and file are viewed as depreciable assets
-1 person does the work of 3 at any other company; whether it's valuable work or not
-Form over substance wins the day
-Being politically skilled is more important than being proficient in your job
-Independent thinkers need-not apply

Advice to Senior Management

-Go back to being a meritocracy where people really are valued as an asset

Pros

Some of the best reasons to work at GE Capital include the size of the company and the diversity of business units.

Cons

Some of the downsides of working at GE Capital include the size of the company and the multiple layers of managment.

Pros

Great training and career opprtunities.
Relatively satisfactory compensations.
Using English language - good for non-natives.
Different cultures - very open environment.

Cons

Too many meetings - calls.
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