GE Healthcare Reviews

Pros

strong management experience coming from EMEA and America
business workframes application is strong and part of routine procedures

Cons

tons of meaningless mandatory meetings and follow ups
head of the region driven by his own, not business requests
dis-aligned activity of different modalities
mess

Advice to Senior Management

put the proper leader to drive the region

Pros

Great leadership team. Very sound processes and operating rythm. Trying to get more customer focused and less and 'engineering' company. Finance is very well respected and calls the shots. Excellent place to start and grow as a finance professional.

Cons

Somewhat beurocratic. The work hours aer crazy and there is a lotof stress (especially in mid- senior finance roles). Also the pay and benefits have stagnated (or declined).

Pros

Options for telecommuting are good.
Good location.

Cons

It is impossible to change jobs unless you are in management. The rest of us are just on the treadmill. And HR and management seem to be OK with that.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't tell employees you value their growth because it's not true. Career discussions are a joke. The only thing management seemed to care about (aside from their own career growth) was us getting our time reports in on time.

Pros

1. Benefits are slightly better than smaller places
2. A sense of pride and accomplishment to work for a prestigious company.

Cons

1. No work life balance. Period.
2. Very long work weeks. Plan to work after hours and weekends, with no OT pay. It is the expectation.
3. Some applications can only be accessed after regular work hours. Very poor IT processes within the company.
4. Salary seems good until you think about working 60 hrs/wk every single week, minimum. In reality, a $50K salary is only about $10/hr
5. Impossible to participate in family life, whether it is being involved with your young children or helping with the care of an elderly parent. Not a job for a single parent unless you want your children raised by someone else. Solution for elderly parent is "time to look for assisted living/nursing home".
6. Necessary time off for family is given, but with retribution.
7. Impossible to actually "take a week's vacation". Upon return, mailbox is over limit and changes have been made you aren't aware of. Things change quickly and with little notice and you will be out of the loop.
8. Be ready for constant reorgs. Impossible to know just what is expected by whom and every reorg results in additional workload for already overloaded employees.
9. Everyone is just tired, working their hardest, and expected to do more with less.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Realize we are human beings
2. Stop complicating things. Too much beaurocracy. Too many processes.
3. Stop adding layers to reporting.

Pros

GE Healthcare jobs are the better ones available in today's job market. Salaries are fair, though not excellent. Benefits are better than average. Job pressure is more than reasonable. For salaried employees work schedule and even location are mostly flexible and good for balancing job and family demands. Not many companies are so tolerant on flexible work arrangements. Job security is above average, management tries to keep your job and would offer good separation package if you do lose your job. Overall a good middle class job.

Cons

Like many other big corporations, GE Healthcare is loaded with bureaucracy, inefficiencies, and politics. That's what you should expect in your job. Some people actually view this as an advantage because you don't get much blame for poor business performance. You can blame external, structural factors or politics. But don't expect to accomplish a lot in your job and get rewarded quickly. Be patient and work your way up slowly and opportunistically.

Advice to Senior Management

Work out ways to get rid of unproductive employees quicker and easier. The company needs fresh talent constantly, more so for a big company with a big inertia.

Pros

Empowerment to work , Peer to Peer interaction, Career growth opportunity

Cons

Dealing with complex business process at times

Pros

Managers are usually good;
Always identify the improvement opportunities;
Good for long term career development.
Global enviroment.
Flexiable working hours.
Good team work.

Cons

1) it will take too long to make a decision;
2) Too many leaders and the people who do the actual work is less.

Advice to Senior Management

1) Make decisions in a timely manner;
2) Improve the productivity of the process
3) Invest more on technologies for tomorrow.

Pros

Good working environment, able to work independently and manager is not micro-managing the team.

Cons

Overtime is very limited and unable to account for other working times after work hrs.

Advice to Senior Management

Create more oppurtunity for the field service engineers.

Pros

Compensation, benefits, tools to accomplish tasks

Cons

Incompetent middle management to the point it makes you physically ill. Individulas who have no business being in the position they are.

Advice to Senior Management

Trim the enormous fat you have at the middle management level. It's where the incompetent go to hide and cash a paycheck.

Pros

Pay and benefits are decent, looks good on your resume (ironically)

Cons

Work-life balance is not a priority at GE, and in Finance it's particularly bad as you not only have to work too much overtime, but are also considered a "second class citizen" as Finance is regarded mostly as a support/administrative function rather than a business partner. So your work is boring but the stress is maximised due to a brutal work culture & politics.

Advice to Senior Management

Employees are human beings, not cogs in a machine...and some are smart enough to leave and find better opportunities where they are treated with more respect.