GE reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(15,524 total reviews)
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H. Lawrence Culp, Jr.

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

GE has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 15,524 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 Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Jul 5, 2018

Assembler

Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay Decent benefits Good work environment (not noisy, climate controlled, takes safety seriously)

Cons

WAY too many meetings/too much time spent on meetings. Seriously, most of us know our jobs really well. A quick 5-10 minute meeting in the morning is understandable. But two 15-20 minute meetings at shift start and shift end AND a State-of-the-unionesque all hands meeting on thursdays? Plus random extended meetings during the week? And the meetings are always about how we're not meeting our production quota? Maybe not spending 3 hours a week in meetings would help. WAY overzealous HR. Do not trust them. They smile in your face and pretend to be your best friend, but they will kick you to the curb in a heartbeat. Very SJW and PC. If anyone hears you make a non PC joke or something (which tends to happen in a factory!), you will get fired mercilessly with no chance to correct your behavior. Also, CONSTANT material problems. They're trying to be like toyota and do "Just in time" and "lean manufacturing". Look, that only works when you have a steady and constant supply of parts. When you are running almost every unit through the line without all the parts needed and then setting the units aside in a graveyard, you need to stop complaining that we aren't putting out enough units and then putting us on mandatory overtime.

1.0
Jul 5, 2018

Sadly, after a great career I’ve finally lost the ‘silver lining’ attitude.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

My immediate team is AWESOME! I wouldn’t trade these folks for anybody else. We work hard, support each other, deliver for our customers, and continue to learn and grow despite everything else happening around us.

Cons

HR, Digital (global functions and data), and senior leadership continue to disappoint. No clear direction, great leaders forced out due to ridiculous location strategy, no communication on next steps or what they are doing to fill the leadership gap. In the span of one month I will lose my leader and the next two leaders above that. Our team has been moved around internally four times in the past year and a half with leaders beyond my direct manager taking absolutely no interest in what we do and how we deliver for our customers. HR and HR for HR are a joke. Not at all responsive to employees questions and not at all proactive in reaching out to the employees they supposedly support to learn about what we do. HR is not an employee advocate. They are puppets. HR People Partner...please. Spare me. Compensation is far behind peer companies/jobs. Absolutely no faith that we are on the cutting edge of HR any longer. We got cocky, thought we were better than everyone else, and fell too far behind to catch up.

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GE Response
7y
Thank you for this feedback. With lots of change at GE we appreciate that it can be unsettling and we'll keep working on letting know how important our people are to us.
3.0
Jul 5, 2018

Senior Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great exposure to various industries; Good training programs, very intelligent teams to learn from; Global company with broad reach.

Cons

Benefits are too expensive to use; HR and senior management have strayed from supporting employees strengths to all cash flow and customer focus. Both are good, but employees drive both areas.

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GE Response
7y
Thanks for letting us know, we appreciate it.
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