GE Reviews

Pros

Very Good leadership training
Great senior management
Very competent colleagues
Cutting edge technology work
Lots of cross business employment opportunities

Cons

Lots of big company red tape
Takes forever to fire incompetent people
Cunning human resources with most influence on employee's professional lives very repulsive

Advice to Senior Management

Fight for your team
Practice work life flexibility
Need to communicate much better down to individual employees
Be fair about internal promotions, posting an open job even when u know who will get it just to bypass rules is disgusting and unfair to others because it's not a real opportunity for them

Pros

They have a very friendly work environment and there is a lot of possibility to grow in such a company.

Cons

The company is too big and so, it might overlook some of the needs of its employees and those needs that would be a part of their development.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership at GE needs to make more effort into creating more local job opportunities in Pakistan if they wish to grow.

Pros

Great leadership, open culture, freedom to execute your ideas.

Cons

Healthcare benefits, stock price is languishing

Pros

The main reason to work for GE from my point of view is the salary and the security of a big corporation

Cons

GE is currently paralyzing itself by an overwhelming amount of bureaucracy. "Management by Excel sheet". As most corporations GE is driven by shareholder value and is driving business from quarter to quarter. High ideals and values seem to be more marketing slogans ore nice wishes from top management than common practice.

Advice to Senior Management

Take the risk to do long term decisions instead of pure quarterly driven management. "Fight against bureaucracy where ever it exists" - even if this is one of the GE values, it is not lived at all. Instead of hiring more and more controllers, managers and paper-pushers, employ more people who are really working.

Pros

The pension plan is great but other benefits seem comparable to others. Hard work and success is rewarded and mostr managers seem very intelligent and competent.

Cons

WAY Too internally focused and seems too big to get essential things done

Advice to Senior Management

WAY Too internally focused

Pros

Freedom
Independence
Prestige
Company extension
Salary
Location
Social benefits
It is a very well known company all over the world

Cons

Lack of training
Not much care to the employees
I t does not have a canteen or restaurnats to have lunch near

Advice to Senior Management

Take care better to the employee
Pay more atention to details, mainly regarding to employees and their comfort and well being

Pros

A very relaxing culture with a nice big window view at the cubicle.
Light management received.
Free snacks in the kitchen while small talking with employees.

Cons

Manger doesn't know what he/she is doing, but will still give you orders.
Too many 'processes' that don't do anything.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire the right manager for the position and have meaningful meetings that don't last over an hour.
Work with employees and talk with them more often.

Pros

Working and friendly environment, flexibility,

Cons

Money and less growth and less salary

Advice to Senior Management

Competitive package

Pros

very large career path possibilities
Good place to improve leadership (with training, programs, and management coaching)
Chance to change businesses

Cons

Some businesses are very political
GE is good to acquire companies but bad to integrate them
Change management is going down in the last years

Advice to Senior Management

Re-consider continuous improvement and simplification as high priority in strategy for growing bottom line.
Need to have a more clear and aggressive vision in a very dynamic market as today

Pros

Training g courses and learning programs constantly pushed on employees enable professional growth. Most are relevant and really do help

Cons

getting so big you no longer speak to anybody -- "workflow" procedures dictate all purchasing, decision making activities, contracts. Very cumbersome and time delaying to accounts

Advice to Senior Management

allow us folks at customer level to interact with customer and make our decisions with accounts. Rather than "I have to get to you" meaning, I need somebody else's approval before I can authorize anything