Bureaucratic Nightmares Abound, Business is Obsessed with Cost and Risk Reduction - Anonymous employee GE Employee Review

2.0
Jun 25, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Generally, GE is impressive on a resume and people who know it from earlier decades have a surprising reverence for the few remaining US employees.

Cons

Bureaucratic nightmares entangle in every possible task. At the present, upper management seems obsessed with cost and risk reduction as the only way to improve the company. All meaningful benefits have been stripped from employees (health, retirement, anything left is so limited as to be functionally useless).

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