General Electric

I have been working for GE for more than three years.

If you are into the most happening businesses, you will be lucky to work with the latest technologies or on applications from scratch.

If you are lucky to get a good manager who puts him/herself in someone's shoes, your work-life balance will be decent enough here in GE.

Managers are the supreme commanders, like in a governmental organization. Think twice before you speak up about anything. ;-)

I had a nice team when I joined, like a family, but due to business splits, my team got scattered to different business verticals.

During the time I joined GE, there was some sort of instability with upper management and the business verticals. The previous CEO got kicked out, part of Healthcare got sold, Transportation got sold to Wabtec, and part of Capital got sold, etc., to balance the debt.

People around us seemed to be jumping to different businesses that were doing well at that time, like Aviation, Healthcare, Gas Power, etc. We, the new joiners, were blank about what was happening or what to do, as we weren't eligible to opt for the business to work with. One day or another, we received shocking emails from upper management.

Get the expected pay during the time you join. Most of them get a hike less than 5 percent on every hike cycle, almost.