GE Energy Reviews

Pros

Well paid and retirement benefits are good.

Cons

Need to coerce people to help you work. If it isn't in PPT it didn't happen.

Advice to Senior Management

do more one over one over ones.

Pros

Pay is good
benefits is good
options are good
people are great

Cons

private company so you will not get a 401K matching
smaller company so you have to wear many hats in your role

Advice to Senior Management

senior management is going a great job by meeting on a weekly basis and reviewing the current standing of budget vs actual results.

Pros

Ability to change jobs/career and stay within the organization.

Cons

Inconsistent recognition, and little/no public recognition.

Pros

Good people, corporate processes, onboarding, coaching and mentoring. Great place to build career.

Cons

Matrix organization, can be confusing to people who have not worked in this type of organizational environment. "Decisions by commitee." Younger, leadership...too much "inside the box" thinking...not enough external experiences by leadership team. Most manager have spent 8-12 years from college, and then run an organization..the "GE way"

Advice to Senior Management

Simplification and eliminating "red-tape" grew GE when Jack was running the organization. Too many layers. Length of decisions cost money and resources...get back to basics!

Pros

GE is so large and well respected that even if you decide it's not for you and you leave after a few years, others will be impressed with your experience there based on the reputation of the company. There are many, many jobs available within the company so you could potentially make it your place to grow throughout your career.

Cons

Though the company claims to promote work life balance, it's understood that you're expected not to be a "9-5'er". Any significant advancement requires working a lot of unpaid overtime. Only those who devote almost all of their waking hours to the company have real chances of "success".

Advice to Senior Management

I think managers could do a much better job of managing resources, meaning trianing employees properly instead of the sink or swin methodology and not having one person do the job of 3.

Pros

- Challenging work;
- Great work atmosphere;
- Great management;
- Great advancement opportunities;

Cons

- Too many rules and procedures that slow us down;

Advice to Senior Management

Keep believing in your employees and the world is ours!

Pros

Employee Mobilization, code of conduct, People Friendly, Ideal to retire

Cons

A bit Beauracratic at times

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work

Pros

It is a global company with a great culture that is permeated across all levels.

Cons

In my location, it was difficult to be seen on a daily basis due. None the less, management was aware of our work.

Pros

Good benefits. Computing hardware is pretty good. Very flexible and helpful IT department. Nice work environment. Books are easy to order, and training is easy to get set-up.

Cons

Poor project management. Lots of dead weight. Hard to stand out. Departments are very closed-off. Very much a "sit down and shut up" environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Actually listen to employees. Encourage an environment of openness and collaboration. Remove barriers to communication and actively create cross-discipline teams.

Pros

The brand name helps in the resume

Cons

There is just way too much waste. There are too many managers to manage very few people. Even being an individual contributor, you will feel the politics being played. I might be useful to do a lean project to reduce the waste in the number of managers.

Although they have a so called career ladder, it is near to impossible to go up being in your own division. For example there is only 1 principal engineer for over 300 engineers. The only way I see to go up is to move laterally across GE businesses.

The review process is very fuzzy. There is no clear way of understanding how are being reviewed, or may be I haven't learned to play the review game yet.

There is really not any innovation going on in the software division in "Smart Grid", although it is called NPI. If you keep working for long in such a domain, you could end up far behind the rest of the software community and might not add any value to the resume

Advice to Senior Management

I would just like to see employees rated more fairly