General Electric

Good top management – the quality of leadership is excellent. The training received by top management at global training centers ensures consistently good people guiding the company.

The research & development center in India is one of a kind, as such centers are quite few and far between in India compared to the rest of the world. So, for someone who is not too keen on cutting-edge research and is looking for a fairly challenging job without core software development, it is a good fit. The work-life balance, team spirit, and benefits (not compensation, which is very poor) are great!

The centre, especially focusing on research, is touted as being on par with centres in the rest of the world, the US for example. But this is far from true, since most of the cutting-edge work is executed in the US, and only small, bite-sized work chunks manage to reach India. The quality of people is not as good either. There is a heavy compromise due to the abundant availability of Master's candidates, while a PhD is a must in the US, thereby ensuring greater quality of research output. Also, restrictions on offshoring work from the US due to defense/security concerns prevent great work coming this way. The biggest downside is the terrible pay, where quite well-qualified candidates are paid even less than freshly graduated software engineers elsewhere!

Focus on maintaining standards across the world's different centers. Increase the compensation levels. Provide more opportunities to travel to conferences worldwide. Treat Indian employees on par with the best across the world.