GE Power FAQ

Paid Time Off is super flexible and great. Good money, a lot of overtime extra money. Good experience for entry level/recent graduates. Amazing people and managers at GE Hitachi, willing to help with your career.

Very "macho" environment with technicians at plants, it tends to be very uncomfortable for women. A lot of travel to towns in the middle of nowhere. So much traveling you cannot keep a daily routine ever. Work during: night shifts, weekends, holidays, 7 days a week and more than 10 hrs a day. Very stressful environment at the plants (not in the office), management in plants tends to be awful, not GE's fault but still something to consider.

Let people know during interviews what they will be expecting. Not only travel percentages but work conditions, hours, shifts, stress, etc. Help and support new engineers during outages, don't just throw them and expect them to do good in such a complicated and stressful environment.

Very laid back culture Great Co-workers

It can be hard to get time to code when in so many meetings

People. Products. Customers.

Tough market dynamics. Huge cost issues & restructuring. In the middle of a reset.

on the right track (finally)

The technical aspects of the work were engaging, and there were some good people working there. Engineering management did their best to shield their people - you really felt like they would go to bat for you. Integrity and due diligence built into the execution.

Other types of management and HR held unreasonable amount of power and engineering was treated like a burdensome cost. There was a feeling of massive inertia - anyone with the power to change things was too far away from the need for change to care. There wasn't a lot of direct collaboration between teams, requiring project manager go-betweens, which was inefficient. Worship of metrics rather than actual improvements that the metrics were meant to represent.

Reduce the vertical structure a bit to reduce corporate inertia. Combine teams and/or have shifts through several collaborative roles, try to break down the "silos". Reduce the power HR had over career opportunities for people they never interacted with.

Free coffee, nice office, flexible

There are no cons so far