Pros
Great career advancement for fresh graduates if joining one of the leadership programs like FMP, IMLP and OMLP. Senior leadership team are great at leading people and developping people. Communincation within the company are great, voices can be heard and opinions are being valued. Its a fair place in terms of promotion and salary increase. Not so bad in work life balance, you typically will not be over loaded all the time. working in GE is like working in so many other big companies. there are always opportunites out there if you work hard and have a good performance and network.
Cons
Salary is way below market pay. After 2-3 years working in GE you can make double the money somwhere else, however, you will be facing the trade off of career advancement in GE or the high pay somewhere else you don't have a root. Then you are thinking, when I have all these good network here, why do I bother to work somewhere else? Well, the reason is, you get paid much lower than your peers like schoolmates in other companies, facing the housing prices, gas prices and all the temptation outside of GE, you will be always struggling whether you want moeny or just a great place to work for. Well, usually the former is more important, and thats the reason a lot of people quit GE.