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Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at General Electric for less than 1 year
October 16, 2010
1.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Positive points include flexible working hours and weekends off.

Generally, you don't have to work more than 9 hours in a day.

There's reasonably competitive pay compared to other IT companies.

There are reasonably good canteen facilities, subsidized food, and transportation.

Cons

Poor job security; the bottom 10-20% or so are axed every year. American policies are not sensitive to Indian culture. Priority of procedure and policies over people. People are treated more as 'labour' rather than 'talent'. It is not able to attract highly qualified people from top schools, nor is it able to create an encouraging atmosphere for the highly qualified people it does manage to attract. Too much peer competition and evaluation are not able to create an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork. American policy provides too much encouragement to women who may otherwise be incompetent or not so deserving. Funny work culture and mind games. Incompetent HR.

Advice to Management

Mediocrity breeds mediocrity. Thomas Edison was definitely a great inventor, but the company is not following in his footsteps. Instead of chanting about innovation, make it happen!

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