GE Reviews in Schenectady, NY

Current Employee – been working at GE as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Good projects and foot in the door for leadership programs.

Cons – There is a lot of process you have to go through before you can get access to a lot of tools and applications.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Strong ethics background. People are very capable and competent. Follow leadership direction. Huge strength in organization and backing. Excellent training and development. Working on organization simplification, again. Don't track vacation, personal time, or sick time.

Cons – Quarterly driven, rather than focus on long term sustaining strategy. Lost discipline with Lean and Six Sigma, and Quality programs. Arrogance displayed with customers and suppliers. Employees are disposable. Complicated Matrix Organization. Functionally driven. No root-cause analysis for fact based decisions. Problems are unacceptable if not presented with immediate solution. Tough to leave if you are well compensated compared to external market. Benefits package has deteriorated, including medical and retirement. Metrics driven and must work lots of hours, with high stress.

Advice to Senior Management – Be willing to surface problems and learn from mistakes. Look at the gap with the GE Employee Opinion Survey and resolve the difference between Executives and Senior Professional employees. Stop spinning the numbers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GE as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Great support for graduate school

Cons – Schenectady is not where you want to get sent

Advice to Senior Management – get more input from the day-to-day grunts

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Easily one of the best places to work if you're interested in learning how to manage people. GE basically wrote the book on people management (and for good reason). It's been around on the NYSE since it's inception and makes a huge effort in developing future leaders. Great company if you're a more seasoned professional in Finance, Legal, or one of the hard Engineering Sciences (Mechanical, Electrical, Material).

Cons – Software Engineer and Computer Science employees are quite often referred to as simply "IT". This can be very troubling if you want to develop great software products or simply be on the cutting edge of technology. Very bureaucratic, often to the point of reduced productivity. Definitely a management culture and not an engineering culture.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for less than a year

Pros – Very committed to personal and career development. Immense resources. Good benefits

Cons – Lots of bureaucracy. Even tiny decisions need to get approval many levels up.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep benefits packages strong or employee retention will suffer

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at GE as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great place to work, nice people, good work life balance and lots of social events to foster interactions

Cons – They can do better in terms of compensations. I guess the name on your resume makes up for the non-competitive pay

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for less than a year

Pros – Friendly supervisors, weekends off ,decent starting salary,many raises,huge opportunitites to advance yourself within the company,and a work schedule that fits everyones needs.

Cons – Not the best benefits package available,some jobs are very dirty and noisy,The on the job training could be more clear. You are shown what to do but a lot of the times why you have to do it a certain way.

Advice to Senior Management – I think when being trained we should be shown why we do what we do along with how we should do it.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at GE full-time for more than a year

Pros – As long as you get your job done, no one bothers you. Loved my co-workers. I was able to work from home as necessary. Many benefits such as 20 sick days a year.

Cons – Manager frequently said India engineers would work at half our salary. Had 3 (remote) mangers in a year so no decent review. RIF'd then then offered another position similar responsibilites at 50% previous wages. Lost 401k contribution because I wasn't vested at no fault of my own.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your talent and retain them. Everyone I talk to has done a stint at GE and gladly left.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Lots of talented employees, many different opportunities for a wide variety of positions. Innovation is strongly encouraged and rewarded.

Cons – Very large company, hard to stand out among hundreds of thousands of talented individuals. There are also many long standing traditions in some of the areas of the company, and are hard to break.

Current Employee – been working at GE full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – They have the capital to research ideas, and develop new products. There is always interesting programs to work on. They have many talented people.

Cons – Way too many layers of management, lots of institutional inertia, too many managers of engineers with little to no experience in the area that they are managing. Programs get cut with little rhyme or reason.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to reduce the number of layers between the decision makers and the individual contributors, the message (top-down and bottoms-up) seem to get lost.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend