Poor management team , slow career growth - Engine Specialist GE Aerospace Employee Review

3.0
Mar 14, 2018
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Pros

Check in time is flexible as long as you work the 40hrs per week. Good medical insurance policy Interesting job

Cons

Mi experience of 12 years working here points to a very poor leadership. In the years I have worked here I have seen a parade of mediocre to bad bosses, elected based on their relationships rather that their skills as managers (there are some fee fortunate exception). This is a chronic disease in GE from many years. Surpincingly the company never fires the manager when things go wrong, they Chop the little guy off and relocate the manager when the teams are depleted so we get a mixture of recycled bad bosses all over the company. This is a problem that had lead GE to disaster. The salary increase is around 3 to 4 % per year if rated as average engineer. This might sound good in countries with low inflation rate, however in Mexico that is slightly below inflation. This means that every year your real salary is a little less. Extremely slow growth: promotions is where you might get a better salary increase, how ever the promotion process in GEIQ is very dark and ambiguous because of the way managers in GEIQ do that. I tried to get a promotion and chased it very hard and I did not get it, then once I was tired, providentially I got it for the wrong reasons!. And that is because is not given based on your performance but the manager interests at that point. In this company I have found extremely difficult to layout a career plan with the managers. Yes, there is very nice a system where you can plan different paths and options for your career and so on. However at the moment of getting achievable targets and the commitment from the manager to move you to the next position if they are met is where you will lost your boss in GE. In these years many times I have heard relocation is frozen. I have looked for opportunities in other teams, then many times I heard from human resources that relocations are frozen then I can not even apply to other position. That is not always but I have heard that 60% of the times. It is a nasty and innefective way to try to retain people. At the end people will leave GE rather than continuing in a different position. GE human resources really is in bad shape. Their intents to retain people and keep them happy are limited to being flexible policies as working hours, working from home, dress as you like (literally, there is one guy here that uses unicorn/panda bear hat). All that might be nice but they should be effective in solving the real problems as salary, motivation and managers retaliation. Very bad investments. We have spent millions of dollars in equipment, laboratory, etc not used frequently. While the business case should be viceversa, Locatel the need, then buy the equipment. Recently I saw a note telling, "propose ideas for the 3d printing machine we just bought", should not that question come first before buying the equipment?

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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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