Finance types have run a once-proud product company into the ground
Finance types have run a once-proud product company into the ground
Reputation. Experienced professionals all around. Work with very smart people. Great place to learn. Great products in aviation, some other businesses.
Metric-driven; gaming the metrics more often than doing the right thing.
Decisions based on obsolete financial metrics and the stock price.
Products that people want and value are secondary.
The company hasn't invested in key facilities and product lines in decades.
The new health plan took away whatever advantage this had been in the past.
Product, product, product.
GE has been a bank for too long, and it hasn't served the company well.
Reinvest in the people, technology, and hardware that made the company great in the past.
There are some early signs that Jeff Immelt has started to do this. I fear that it's too late.
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General Electric Interview Experiences
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Fairly straightforward interview with a team, with typical questions revolving around the role and posted job description. No presentation was required. It was about an hour long. It started with a summary about myself, then I had one-on-ones with th
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I was contacted and asked to first complete a questionnaire, mostly behavioral. A week after, I had a telephonic interview with that manager - behavioral. A week after that, I had a one-on-one interview still with the same manager - technical/behav
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Introduced the company and what my role will be focusing on. Went through several projects, asked about skills. Asked how I approach several problems. Then gave me the opportunity to ask my questions for them.
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Lynn, Massachusetts, United StatesJuly 12, 2024Fairly straightforward interview with a team, with typical questions revolving around the role and posted job description. No presentation was required. It was about an hour long. It started with a summary about myself, then I had one-on-ones with th
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JohannesburgJune 17, 2014I was contacted and asked to first complete a questionnaire, mostly behavioral. A week after, I had a telephonic interview with that manager - behavioral. A week after that, I had a one-on-one interview still with the same manager - technical/behav
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United StatesNovember 17, 2018Introduced the company and what my role will be focusing on. Went through several projects, asked about skills. Asked how I approach several problems. Then gave me the opportunity to ask my questions for them.
