Pros
There is an enormous amount of prestige when working for a company with the global reputation of GE Healthcare. This is a great company to have on one's resume, making the experience invaluable to competitive companies. The rigors involved in fulfilling my responsibilities on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis makes my experience at GE like a greenhouse of growth, professionally. The rigors are a double-edged sword. We learn to love them for the professional development, yet we hate them because they seem to take us away from the most key activities for driving sales. Overall, this is a great place to gain invaluable experience, but in my humble opinion, not the greatest place for a sales person to hang his hat for the long term.
Cons
Compensation, compared to my competitive peers, is very poor. GE Healthcare does not know how to take care of its salespeople in a way that retains the highest performers. High performance is rewarded with higher goals and non-commensurate financial pay-offs. We are simply asked to do more for the same amount of money in markets that are tightening. Our products and services are consistently priced at a premium of our competitors and in a down economy, our compensation is not adjusted to make sure that money-motivated salespeople MAKE MONEY. Also, GE is such a large ship that even the simplest decisions need to get signed off by a myriad of individuals who may or may not really have a pulse on the customer and how any given decision will affect them.
