Nice place for a first job, slow-moving company - Data Scientist GE Aerospace Employee Review

3.0
Oct 11, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- You have full control of your time, flex-time is available, overtime is always paid. - Never missed a payment, excellent payroll management. - Working from home is possible, but not all of the time, wish it was. - Trainings all the time, self learning is encouraged. - Respectful counterparts, global teams. - Dress code is very relaxed.

Cons

- IT managers at all levels are Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Electric Engineers, they don't understand the complexity of Data Science projects, track tasks and do everything on excel, and keep talking about process improvements and KPI all the time as if it was a manufacturing facility. - Utilities are always LOW, they make really bad financial decisions. - Growing up inside the company takes 3+ years, you need to be involved on their bureaucracy/political game, and even beg for promotions, otherwise they won't even look at you. - Worship Six Sigma, they want to apply it to IT projects, which is ridiculous. - There's never any money for anything. - They live from the name, they say it openly and are proud of it. - Data Science projects are limited to what a 60 year-old engineer can understand.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Apr 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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