Pluspunten
Benefits are ok, pay is great (at least at Corporate HQ where I work) I get 4 weeks vacation per year, 50% 401k match up to 8% of salary, health insurance is mediocre at best, however I am one of the lucky ones and I was grandfathered into the defined benefit pension plan. Pay is typically above market..I will even dare to say that most people I work with are grossly overpaid. Most jobs here are low stress in the sense that you can royally screw up and suffer absolutely zero consequences whatsoever. Almost impossible to get fired from this place. There is a guy here that regularly takes naps, watches movies at his desk, takes 2 hour lunchbreaks and he got promoted and now makes $130k per year. There really is a lot of opportunity here, but like many other places networking is key! Sometimes when I tell people I work at GE they automatically think I'm smart.
Minpunten
Working here feels like Groundhog day (the Bill Murray movie)..not necessarily a bad thing, just not good either. Each day is the same as the last. A very mediocre existence. Now I'm no doctor, but sitting in a cubicle 10+ hours a day probably isn't good for your physical health or mental well being..but this problem is not exclusive to GE. Working here results in such a dormant lifestyle--my physical movement on the job is limited to walking to the mens room to drain the snake. This lack of physical mobility explains why some of my coworkers are the approximate size of a water-buffalo. What is with people taking themselves so seriously here? I work at Corporate HQ and everyone seems so pissed off all the time! This guy sitting next to me thinks he is the cats pajamas.