GE Healthcare Reviews

Pros

Always challenged, and constantly learning. Good benefits.

Cons

Career advancement is difficult. Don't back-fill positions when people leave less resources to do the work.

Pros

clear career path
easy and helpful for a fresh under/grad to start their career
good reputation
global working environment

Cons

slow decision
not very flexible when it comes to a quick decision

Advice to Senior Management

reduce some kind of meaningless training, let employees make their best use of their strengths.

Pros

Various opportunities to change jobs
Salaries are very competitive
Have a Flexible Work Arrangement policy
Vacation allotment is very competitve

Cons

Too big for own good
HR only function to keep managers in-line
Bad managers take long time to be weeded-out

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to Individual contributors - they know what is going on! Managers not always forthcoming when you ask for feedback.

Pros

-- Rewarding to be part of venerated GE brand
-- Opportunities to work with people from all over the world
-- Exposure to a variety of experiences in a short amount of time

Cons

-- Way too much work given to each employee than is humanly possible to complete in a day
-- Substandard pay for job responsibilities
-- Career advancement is too subjective; no objective criteria for advancement or career paths

Advice to Senior Management

-- Create career paths for every type of position
-- Weed out bad managers sooner
-- Make sure your pay is more in line with external benchmarks

Pros

GE knows how to develop leaders

Cons

GE does not know how to build great software

Advice to Senior Management

Build great software

Pros

- good technology exposure
- challenging problems to solve
- GE looks good on the resume
- global teams provide good exposure to other cultures and different types of people
- direct management supportive of employees

Cons

- new hires and thrown into the fire with little relevant training
- the training that is provided generally does not apply to your job duties
- technical support for EMR product will always be necessary because it has so many defects and bugs. On the other hand, you'll always have work and a degree of job security
- very bureaucratic environment. Prepare to fill out forms and send emails to get anything accomplished
- teamwork is valued in spirit but not practice. One must be prepared to be aggressive and unrelenting when needing help or assistance. Never take one person's answer

Advice to Senior Management

address the work/life balance situation. There is far too much work for the number of employees. Keep up the good work on listening to different suggestions on process improvement.

Pros

Healthcare IT product offerings to learn

Cons

Long hours of work and not much appreciation

Advice to Senior Management

Needs to appreciate employees more

Pros

Management focused on ROI, growth, profits.

Cons

Profits aren't enough; need 15% annual growth

Advice to Senior Management

Benchmark yourselves against competitors in similar businesses. Are McKesson and Seimens showing the kind of results you expect? Who is? Share findings with your teams!

Pros

- Sink or swim environment - if you can survive here, you can survive anywhere.
- Some very talented people who do wonders with little resource
- Very much admired in the US
- Compensation ok
- Great name on CV

Cons

- Lack of resources
- Little or no work-life balance
- Process-driven culture with little thought given to whether process remediates problem or improves business. Tick-box culture
- Staff are tired and worn-out.
- Demands are always increasing with end result of no time to think strategically.
- Rationale behind all actions are to live for the quarter with no long-term planning.
- Regular movement of people such that internal coprorate memory and expertise is patchy.

Advice to Senior Management

More focus on long-term strategy. Also should value employees more rather than treat them as an unnecessary evil on base costs.

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.