GE Security Reviews

Pros

- Multi-cultural environment with good diversity.
- Good training grounds for professional growth.
- Being able to develop and share best-practices across the business.
- Working with cross-functional teams and matrix management.
- Overall communications from the top including vision and direction were effective.

Cons

- Benefits were slightly better than average, however not as good as GE 'Core' benefits.
- None or very little bonus due to lack of profitability not due to performance! Work very hard and perform well, yet no bonus!

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on products, product-mix, giving the customer what they want when they want it. Work more 'in-the-business' than 'on-the-business'.

Pros

Good Company to work for when you are willing to work hard.

Cons

Sometimes they can overlook the obvious when it stares them in the face.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to your workers at all levels of the company

Pros

Relatively stable, educated workforce, good namebrand.

Cons

No bonus, too much "off-shoring" of manufacturing.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide bonus based on margin/revenue as individual contributor, not as dependent on biz.

Pros

matrix organization, you will get direct access to very good leadership team. very good learning opportunities to enhance your career.

Cons

takes too much time to resolve issues. focus on future is not clear. very flat organization so it takes some time to move to next level in GE.

Advice to Senior Management

Product focus has to be increased. relies heavily on engineering team to resolve support issues. believes only in products and not in services attached to the product.

Pros

great company wonderful benfits should definately consider working hear you will not be disappointed at all great compensation and benefits

Cons

sometimes there is overtime required. Need to be very timely on clocking in Managent is not overbearing like other places

Advice to Senior Management

build relationship and involve the work force more with things that need to be changed before you do it thanks

Pros

The company has great compensation. Working for GE is currently looked at as being a positive when trying to find a new job.

Cons

Instead of trying to grow most of the aquasitions, GE consistantly focuses on making profit by cutting the bottom line. They constantly look for cheaper ways to build product. While this basic idea is not a bad thing, their presure to do this is extreme. After some time, the quality goes.

Their employees are only numbers to them. Their basic policy is to force out 10% every year. They do this by forcing managers to put 10% of their people into a catagory indicating they are sub-par. This should be based on the managers opinion, not some moron in Bradenton!!!

Advice to Senior Management

1) Listen to your people. I mean the workers, not managers.
2) Think further out than next quarter. Every year, management says the are going to do this, but it does not happen.
3) Listen to your customers. Not just the largest 2 of them.

Pros

One of the leading companies in teh security industry, good pay for out of college graduates as well as benefits.

Cons

career paths not well defined, this has been defined several times by upper managements but never really put into practice.

Advice to Senior Management

Establish a management framework that values research and development projects; reduction of bureaucratic walls between different functional organizations; Shift focus to integrated security solutions instead of monolithic systems.

Pros

It's a good foot-in-the-door to work within the larger structure of GE

Cons

This division of GE doesnt have a good handle on its business. It's a cluster of small businesses that someone higher-up said, "lets group them all together and see what happends." What ended up happening is the business imploded.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that in technogology based businesses your employees are assests, not expenditures. I would also offer that common sense and good business practices should prevail over "functionalizations."

Pros

The pay is mediocre for hourly employees here. The benefits, if you take advantage of them, are fairly good; your standard medical/dental/vision, standard 401(k) matching, FSA, EAP, tuition reimbursement, and a smattering of less interesting things (we do get decent discounts on large appliances, from what I understand). There are GE sites all over the world, so if you have a destination in mind, it's possible to transfer within the company to almost anywhere if you can manage to get hired.

Cons

Interdepartmental communication is very bad. Improving it is discussed frequently, but nothing is ever done. There are many internal mechanisms for controlling and improving things, but if other sites are like this one, they are poorly implemented if at all. "Lean" is pushed heavily, which means departments operate on skeleton crews, and then additional employees are laid off to get the remaining employees to try and work even harder to keep up with deadlines and meet SLAs. The practice of opening jobs earmarked for specific employees and wasting everyone's time interviewing people for a job they have no hope of being hired for seems to be commonplace, so you need to make friends in high places if you want to get anywhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Company-wide emails discussing "eliminating waste" right after handing out layoff notices are tacky.

Pros

The potential to advance is there if one is willing to work for it. They train for the job, and the pay is awesome, as well as the benefits and extras. They are supportive in and out of the job. It is a challenging job, but not so challenging that one cannot learn to do it. It is a very friendly and fun atmosphere. Probably the best job I have ever had.

Cons

The only downside I have found is that they don't coordinate to have the same technician on the job. I have ended up starting half way through someone else's job and it does get confusing.

Advice to Senior Management

That they should communicate more with the coordinator and have the technician that starts the job... stay there throughout the entire job.