Stuck in 1960s, toxic, budget cuts, outdated tech - Senior Staff Engineer GE Aerospace Employee Review

1.0
Mar 13, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Air conditioning and heating in the office building, there are coffee makers. Office building has a roof and four walls. Some windows.

Cons

Skype Business doesn’t work, they rely on Excel for any analytical work, you can’t get a Matlab or Tableau license because it’s too “expensive”, every engineer that mentors you is 60+ and spends 20 mins a day with you and has zero interest, all the older engineers complain all day about Millenials, when you take a new role no one trains you or passes any information on how to do your job, they will expand your role exponentially without any pay raise, senior engineers have gone 3 years without a raise, PB and Lead engineers on average get 2% raise while executives get 100k bonuses, cash flow has been decreased by deals made by executives at top, horrible actualization in business, stock price is low, morale is low, commercial is moving tons of engineers to military without regard to future development, employees are seen as “just employees” and not talent, there’s no efforts to automate or invest in Google-like machine learning stuff, no rest and recreation areas, Executives are asked to identify poor employees in public, managers berate employees in public in front of peers, budgets are unrealistic to force scarcity, SEC investigation. Very little diversity. Almost no women and ones that are there are forced into business operations and never promoted.

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5.0
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Pros

good work life balance, stability, and pay

Cons

boring at times, lots of process

4.0
Apr 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The engineers who work hard and take themselves seriously are still working here and are great to collaborate with and solve problems. The projects are interesting, as long as your manager is considering your interests and career path. There are ample opportunities in commercial and military, with the commercial being more of a remote/Teams environment and military being more in person. Bonus structure is strong, 15%. Incentive pay for coming to work. Work life balance mostly depends on the job you sign up for.

Cons

Managers may not have come up through the engineering ranks and so they may not understand us. They focus more on process, like Flight Deck, than having actual knowledge to solve problems. The technical expertise in the sub section and especially section level has gone down in the last 5-10 years. This less technical management class seems to be impacting engineering turnover among the IC’s. Additionally, constant pivots, often due to inconsistent funding, also decrease morale. Lastly, it’s possible your manager doesn’t care as much about your career as they do just getting tasks done / covering the bases. Basically non-existent health care (very high premium and deductible for larger families). Biased hiring through Next Engineers.

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