GE reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(15,514 total reviews)
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85% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

GE has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 15,514 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The GE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Jul 12, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good, Challenging work environment, the more responsibility you are will to take on the more that will be given to you

Cons

Compensation from peer to peer can vary drastically, Employee rating system can have detrimental affects on lesser known employees (managers with whom you have little interaction with can have too large of an impact on your career, punish the unknown to support their own), layers of bureaucracy can be difficult to navigate. Inorder to keep up the life in work-life balance will suffer.

2.0
Jul 12, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Training opportunities are excellent if you are allowed to go by your manager. Competitive benefit package: good health, dental and vision insurance. There are several tools to learn for self improvement. In a way GE is like a school. There are all kinds of computer software available to the engineer. Supposedly, it looks good on resume

Cons

No matter how much you try, managers are never happy with your work. They are very good at finding excuses to rank you low. The good job you do is rarely acknowledged. You are more discouraged than encouraged. Managers and technical leaders are technically weak. Instead of looking at what you are doing right, they are trying to find excuses to demoralize you and degrade your work. It is not what you bring new to the table, not how well you do your job, not how much technically competitive you are, it is how you kiss their @ss and how you look like as if you are working. It is very bureaucratic. Career advancement is only for upper level managers and for them to get the promotions. If you are starting fresh with little or no experience, GE is a place to stay away unless you have other offers. It would be a good place to work to learn the tools which are beneficial to engineers and gain some experience and get the hell out. All work is outsourced to contractors. Salary is not competitive and compared to the amount of hours you put in to GE, it does not justify. Family life? what is it? who cares? You have to be willing to dedicate your life to GE. In order to get promoted you have to move around. This company is also all about metrics. If the metrics are met they are good. No one really cares about quality. There are some make beliefs such as: Integrity. If there is integrity in the company, they would have never talked about it. Imagination at work: yes, keep dreaming.

3.0
Jul 10, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Possible areas of growth. The are many job posting move through out the company. Maybe general pay. Course reimbursements are useful to obtain extra college credit. Funding and equipment are sufficient for day to day needs.

Cons

Contradictory culture. No transparency on mangement decisions. It is a pure corporate protectionist culture. Things are found out in news before employees are notified. Coporate talk and thought processes are continuous and trumph initial sensical thought.

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