GE Design Engineer reviews

4.7

99% would recommend to a friend

(78 total reviews)
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H. Lawrence Culp, Jr.

92% approve of CEO

90% positive business outlook

Design Engineer employees have rated GE with 4.7 out of 5 stars, based on 78 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Design Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. GE is rated 36% above average by Design Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Feb 22, 2010
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Pros

best benefits and employee welfare Good job related decision making power at all levels engorage risk taking to a certain extent

Cons

short sighted management do and undoing decisions all the time

4.0
Feb 9, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

A significant amount of name recognition that fortunately enhances even the most mundane of tasks and duties. If you have a great manager, and can tap into the higher demand aspects of GE you can get a lot of exposure and experience in a short amount of time. This is a significant perks of being part of a larger company like GE.

Cons

Very large company with many degrees of separation between you and great people and great work related opportunities. It can be hard to trace your steps to other aspects of the business. The leadership development programs are the best way to go.

2.0
Jul 12, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Training opportunities are excellent if you are allowed to go by your manager. Competitive benefit package: good health, dental and vision insurance. There are several tools to learn for self improvement. In a way GE is like a school. There are all kinds of computer software available to the engineer. Supposedly, it looks good on resume

Cons

No matter how much you try, managers are never happy with your work. They are very good at finding excuses to rank you low. The good job you do is rarely acknowledged. You are more discouraged than encouraged. Managers and technical leaders are technically weak. Instead of looking at what you are doing right, they are trying to find excuses to demoralize you and degrade your work. It is not what you bring new to the table, not how well you do your job, not how much technically competitive you are, it is how you kiss their @ss and how you look like as if you are working. It is very bureaucratic. Career advancement is only for upper level managers and for them to get the promotions. If you are starting fresh with little or no experience, GE is a place to stay away unless you have other offers. It would be a good place to work to learn the tools which are beneficial to engineers and gain some experience and get the hell out. All work is outsourced to contractors. Salary is not competitive and compared to the amount of hours you put in to GE, it does not justify. Family life? what is it? who cares? You have to be willing to dedicate your life to GE. In order to get promoted you have to move around. This company is also all about metrics. If the metrics are met they are good. No one really cares about quality. There are some make beliefs such as: Integrity. If there is integrity in the company, they would have never talked about it. Imagination at work: yes, keep dreaming.

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