3.0
17 Jun 2008
Former employee
Milwaukee, WI
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
It's a huge company with a lot of products, plenty of opportunities to learn about how not do do things.
Cons
Shareholder-led, quarter-to-quarter decision making. The company always does what's needed to satisfy the analysts, not what's actually the right thing. Every time GE has a bad quarter, or even a decent quarter, the company locks down the hatches, cuts bonuses, restricts travel and pares back annual raises...yet somehow they always manage to construct a booth the size of a city block at tradeshows. In addition to the above, GE has a terribly overblown opinion of its own ability to execute. GE ain't that good at process, folks, no matter how many books have been written on the topic.