GE Healthcare Reviews

Pros

-Great canteen with choice of 3 or more caterers.
-Free biscuits and coffee during breaks.
-JFWTC is a great campus that GE have spent quite a lot of monies on.
-Free parking when on holidays.
-Diversity at work promoted very well.
-Ideal place for learning power point skills..........everyone seems to be good at it.
-Citibank ATM facility within JFWTC............with the salaries they pay , you wont be visiting it often though.

Cons

-Non existent HR..........have to beg to get certain things done and have to eek your way through messes caused by them in the first place.
-Leadership have no clue on how to run certain modalities in Healthcare.
-Over complicated and often rubbish processes............roll out of another garbage can of processes every other day..........even senior management have no idea why things are done the way they are...........guess it all just rolls downhill from somewhere up there.
-Managers are least interested in technology and dont want employees to enhance their domain knowledge.............its seems to them Six Sigma solves everything automatically.
-Integrity is a big joke in GE...........personal experience has seen managers passing on falsified documents to keep themselves in the clear and blatantly lying about their errors.
-Colleagues who have left the company were harassed when they put in their papers..........all the more reason to stay away.
-You think GE looks good on your resume...........its a farce..........engineers be warned .............. competent technical people at other companies will see through you if spend a lot of time at GE.
-Run like a typical govt organisation.........heavily bureaucratic........ no one really cares if you doze all day at work.

Advice to Senior Management

-Practice what you preach..........if you want to employees to have integrity , show some in the first place.
-Six Sigma cannot solve techical issues............its only a analysis tool and no substitute for domain knowledge.
-Get the HR act together..........its non existent now.
-Employees are your true wealth...........treat them with respect.

Pros

GE has some benefits better than other companies. For instance, there is a pension and a 401k. In addition, the time it allows for vacation, personal business and sick leave is quite good when compared with other companies.

Cons

GE is a big business largely run by lawyers or very litigation sensitive managers. So, it has a lot of elearning and business processes that make it difficult to do simple things. For instance, it is difficult to purchase an item from a vendor not on the "approved vendor list" and it is difficult and time consuming to get and keep vendors on the list. The time devoted to elearning and GE processes adds to the time it takes to complete simple tasks.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire the best people both professionally and ethically, train them, give them the resources to do the job and then trust them to do the job.

Pros

they have a really good cafeteria and they offer free snacks. lunch breaks are mandatory with 45 minutes allotted to each employee.

Cons

their corporate structure is so savvy that they did not have to pay taxes though they are one of the most revenue producing companies in america.

Advice to Senior Management

you are doing a great job with employee satisfaction in my opinion
keep up the good work and please pay taxes

Pros

Looks good on your resume

Cons

salary position. 60 hour work week or more

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees

Pros

Being a global company, the management is very professional and treats the employees fairly. Lot of opportunities for learning, volunteering and driving changes. There is always work and in majority of cases too much work on the plate to be honest, which is very good in this economy to be engaged and focused as an IT professional. 50-60 hour weeks are the norm but the company is supportive of healthy work-life balance, and the focus is always getting the work done on time and with good quality. Technology is top notch across majority of IT, and often plays a key role in providing the best tools for the employees to be productive, wherever they are.

Cons

Being a process heavy company, the work is often a long hop. Where one can complete the same work in 8 hours elsewhere, here it takes 40-60 hours to fill in too much of documentation and never ending work flows for reviews and approval. If you are an agile person coming into GE, you will struggle to find your feet. You will attend countless meetings, and it's a long struggle to get the ball rolling if you are a project manager. Sometimes you won't know who is working for you and who is not as often the common problem with global teams.

Pros

-Looks good on a resume.
-If you can survive the beaurocracy at GE, you can survive just about anything.
-If you're in the right position and you build a good reputation, there are opportunities for advancement, and you can advance fairly quickly.

Cons

-Beaurocracy, beaurocracy, beaurocracy. Even tasks that seem like they should be simple often make you want to slam your head into your desk. You're expected to hit your numbers, but then they drown you in paperwork and red tape. I know some of it is the healthcare industry, but some of it is the company, too.
-Nobody values the GE brand more than GE.
-Sales targets and other expectations aren't very realistic.
-Benefits should be better for a company this big and this successful. My wife gets better benefits working at a privately-held company of 120 people.
-Annual raises are pathetic. The only way to noticeably alter your pay is to change jobs.

Advice to Senior Management

GE gets a lot of good talent. As much as the management team thinks that they are the reason for success, a company is only as effective as the employees that they have. Value your people and listen to them.

Pros

- Recognized leading company
- Strong leaders
- Many opportunities to learn and grow
- Exciting jobs for career-driven people
- Efficient processes

Cons

- Average salaries
- Demanding jobs with average to poor work-life balance
- Finance driven company on quarterly basis with poor long term vision
- Big machine with little room for innovation

Advice to Senior Management

- Strategy driven by quarterly results is not always compatible with long term vision
- Innovation should play a bigger role in long term investment strategy, especially in highly technological areas

Pros

Pay and benefits are O.K.

Cons

Culture is super cruel, cultish.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that you do not live in the center of the universe.

Pros

Very challenging problems. Very advanced technologies. Company is filled with experts. Impact peoples lives. Great place for developing career skills.

Cons

Huge company, too large to know everything that is going on. Lots of paperwork, documentation, and procedures being a regulated medical industry.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management always seems to focus intently on the company's financial figures when making presentations to employees. For those of us who aren't looking at the financial data every day, these numbers really don't mean anything.

Pros

Medical equipment industry is sound reasonable reason to choose this company.

Cons

Management does not have any technical knowledge. They consider employees as robots. Management does not follow company standards and documents. They offered 2-3 weeks training, but they violate copmany rules and requirements. It is worst job I had in my more than 20 years employment history. Will not recommmend to work for this company, unless you want to go to the job like to the prison. This company has more than 100 years history how to "burn" employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Change management.