GE Reviews

Pros

GE has a good name.
Big Company with over 300,000 employees
Diverse businesses: Capital, Energy, Healthcare, Transportation and many more.
Many locations: Connecticut, Ohio, Georgia, and many overseas.

Cons

Their leadership programs are not as flexible as other companies.
You have to stay within one of their business. For example, if you're with Healthcare unit, then you will need to stay with healthcare for 2 years. You can not choose Energy for other rotation.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more flexibility. Give new hires and interns more opportunity and time to show their talents. Listen to what others have to say instead of just denying them.

Pros

GE was an enjoyable place to work - many young engineers that we excited about their work. Also, the large number of interns made for a more enjoyable atmosphere as an intern. Engineering team was very helpful in teaching us, but I learned the most from the line technicians and machinists. They were very willing to teach me about the process and the machines involved. Recognizes the value of go-getters.

Cons

There was occasionally personality clashes between members of the engineering team and members of the technician team. In these clashes, both sides were 100% certain they were right.

When I started there wasn't any structure to the intern program, I was led to my office then told to 'talk to the other interns to figure out what you need to do'. As I was leaving they were working on implementing a structured intern program.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more structure from the beginning. Work on getting the technical and 'non-technical' teams to work together with out fighting.

Pros

very good training, efficient, good culture.

you can work with the most talented people. there is very open working environment.

there is mentor program to help you fit into the job immediately.

Cons

payment is not good enough, the workload is heavy, will not get paid for extra hour work. there are too many rules to follow.

Advice to Senior Management

don't play politics and try to make everything simpler,
 be more open to new employees, to those who have worked there for more than 10 years, please open your heart and teach new comers.

Pros

- Very talented and smart people
- Never boring, very challenging

Cons

- Benefits not the best vs industry
- Always following competition - (Appliances)
- Severely Understaffed in critical functions like engineering, quality, manufacturing.
- Work/life balance is a concept nobody in management knows

Advice to Senior Management

Short sighted strategy always looking to make numbers for the quarter and very poor long term planning and vision. Excessively arrogant management, this attitude is now being crushed by hard working and quality oriented management from foreign competitors (very similar story to GM).

Pros

Nice people, good learning opportunity.

Cons

Like any other big companies, less flexible, less opportunity for promostion.

Advice to Senior Management

More information sharing with employees, respect and listen to them.

Pros

I have been here for 23 years and have a pension. I was also lucky to have been here in the 80's and 90's. We had great leadership, great process, and a much clearer vision if our future.

Cons

Jeff Immelt has diluted our culture, Not improved any processes or execution capabilities, and tanked our stock price by 70%.

Advice to Senior Management

Replace Jeff Immelt and get us back on the path that made this company a great place to work 20 years ago.

Pros

cool; nice, calm, robotic, frevilous

Cons

big, strong, bureaucracy, civil servants, spongecake

Advice to Senior Management

get real

Pros

Very well known throughout the world
Pay is competitive for internships
Great name to have on one's resume

Cons

Management tends to be very detached from workforce
High pressure

Pros

It is a company that strives to maintain a very high standard of integrity
Huge investment in developing people
You get to work with a lot of smart and very nice people (the occasional jerk, as anywhere)
It is a Meritocracy - rewards, recognition, promotion are based on what you accomplish and how you behave
Great diversity of businesses, products and markets
Constant change - never gets dull!
Community minder - supports volunteerism, United Way, environmental and social issues

Cons

Complex organization structure
Some bureaucracy
Short term focus tends to predominate in business units

Advice to Senior Management

Build the talent pipeline for the future - don't let short term results get in the way of building for the future

Pros

- Tremendous opportunities and excellent career progression
- Talented people and management
- Positive environment with great leadership
- Good work life balance
- Focus on All round development through both Technical and Soft-Skills trainings
- Quality work, high rewards and recognition

Cons

GE is a large organization with more than 300,000 employees. It is easy to get lost among so many employees however hard-work and superior talent is very well recognized and promoted in GE's rewarding environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Send a quarterly report to all GE employees with the keynote achievements from different businesses of GE. This will keep employees engaged in GE's various business practices and also motivate to individuals to perform better.