GE reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(15,501 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 15,501 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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16K reviews
3.0
Aug 23, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Well, you can always choose someplace else to work, but we talk about the efficiency and the valuse for the customer and the employee, not to mention the fringe benefits, which you, of course had to pay for as part of your base salary. Try to find out whats going on with the company for the long haul is the real issue...get laid before retirement is a real concern.

Cons

Good people at first, but later on the people all start looking like the very first time.

4.0
May 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great learning experience. Get to work in different businesses w/ different business models and do different jobs within finance. Overall great corporate finance training.

Cons

Work/Life Balance. You will work two weekends a quarter and usually over 55 hours a week

4.0
May 1, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I was very proud to work with this company. The best part of C&I was intelligent, savvy, talented people in global environment that you felt excited to work with every day. We always had new challenges to tackle so it was never boring. Change was part of the culture and not something to fear - it was something to capitalize on. Excellent processes and tools were available to complete job and function responsibilities. We had fire fighting just as everyone does but there was also time and rewards to taking the time to blow up processes and streamline everyday responsibiities using six sigma. There was good balance between team and individual goals and objectives. Fantastic support was provided from GE Corporate on management training, online tools, and knowledge sharing. Even with so much change in acquisitions and divestitures, the GE umbrella felt stable and highly respected. Feedback was part of the culture and performance appraisals were completed on time and were reviewed by top management. Session C data was proactively used to develop people and effectively utilize internal pipelines of talent. Managers and executives were very open to questions and assisting in grooming the next leaders. Opportunities were usually available for those who actively pursued them.

Cons

Learning the big GE world is a challenge and occasionally overwhelming to handle everything coming at you. Work/life balance was sometimes nonexistent but always seemed to work out well in the end. Pay was competitive but you must stay on the fast track for promotions to really drive salary up, otherwise the merit increases kept you whole but you never really got ahead with compression happening more than what we would have liked. Losing other GE businesses was hard because even though you understand the corporate strategy behind selling off the pieces, the people leaving felt like family.

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