GE reviews

- For management, extremely long hours are expected and are the norm. In order to be recognized, you must put in "crazy" long hours. Very poor work/life balance. To quote an HR Manager (before the present one), "Management is expected to put in a minimum of 10 hour days." We were already doing 12, so it didn't matter, but suddenly what we were doing was less "above and beyond" than we were before. - Any real training beyond the required Green Belt Six Sigma is restricted to the elite few. In our location, two out of hundreds were able to attend the GE school in Crotonville per year. - Transferring from this location was near impossible. You were there for life and if your career goals didn't encompass that, it is your problem. Very different from the recruiting pitch. Forget about moving to another business or any kind of career change within the company. - Overall low morale from technicians created a bad atmosphere for everyone. Managers who want to make a change to improve it were isolated. - Many of the programs instituted within GE are great and if applied with the same spirit that they were developed and advertised, they would be very helpful. Unfortunately, they are applied only to check the box and as a result, often have an adverse effect.

For 32 years GE had always said if you were a top performer you had a job. The layoffs in late November 2017 were not based on performance, or seniority, but on where you sat. In my division Digital Coretech 200 of their most highly skilled people were let go because they had been awarded the privilege of working from home in return for being a top performer. The 200 people we laid off because they did not sit in one of 4 locations which include 3 VPs and 5 Directors. The fear is until GE stock gets back up top $50 a share activist investors are going to influence decision making. You need to have an exit strategy if you work for GE, they have become just another corporate employer where employees tend to get looked at as a commodity.