GE reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(15,515 total reviews)
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H. Lawrence Culp, Jr.

85% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

GE has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 15,515 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 Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Sep 1, 2008
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Pros

Great career advancement for fresh graduates if joining one of the leadership programs like FMP, IMLP and OMLP. Senior leadership team are great at leading people and developping people. Communincation within the company are great, voices can be heard and opinions are being valued. Its a fair place in terms of promotion and salary increase. Not so bad in work life balance, you typically will not be over loaded all the time. working in GE is like working in so many other big companies. there are always opportunites out there if you work hard and have a good performance and network.

Cons

Salary is way below market pay. After 2-3 years working in GE you can make double the money somwhere else, however, you will be facing the trade off of career advancement in GE or the high pay somewhere else you don't have a root. Then you are thinking, when I have all these good network here, why do I bother to work somewhere else? Well, the reason is, you get paid much lower than your peers like schoolmates in other companies, facing the housing prices, gas prices and all the temptation outside of GE, you will be always struggling whether you want moeny or just a great place to work for. Well, usually the former is more important, and thats the reason a lot of people quit GE.

4.0
Aug 27, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Very flexible for family and work balance is good overall and co-workers are very supportive of each other. I think it is a great place to work if you have children as they are very compassionate about family situations and the benifits are very good also. I am sure not every department is the same but the department I was in really impressed me and although I have just moved away and had to end my employment I miss the job itself along with many of the very wonderful people who worked there. Great job to Jonathan May for being an excellent manager.

Cons

Not much recognition for jobs well done from the immediate supervisor. That would be my only complaint really. Besides the fact that there is a lot of management employee relationships/ marriages that I think affect job performances sometimes. People who are not managers tend to think if they are dating one of the managers that gives them managerial rights and although this is not the case it is not handled very well by management and not stopped. A shame because this could be a perfect place to work but this is a big problem and needs to be taken care of.

5.0
Aug 26, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

One of the best reasons to work for Energy would have to be the opportunity to move within the company, given good performance reviews and fulfillment of certain time restrictions.

Cons

After a while, your role seems to morph into what could be two full time jobs, 40 hour weeks dont seem to give you enough time to resolve complex issues, especially when you are on conference calls for 4 hours a day...

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