Don't expect to be rewarded for performance; politics are more important here. - Technician GE Employee Review

2.0
Mar 4, 2009
Recommend
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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.

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Pros

Flexible work environment Supportive Leadership Training opportunities

Cons

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3.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

My first job after college and my internship was a great experience. I learned a lot about medical devices and the medical device industry, and I even got promoted to site leader pretty quickly.

Cons

My training was nonexistent; I learned everything from medical device service manuals. In my region, a billion-dollar company offered no bonuses or decent pay, and the management was micromanaging and horrible.

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