- Corporate leadership views engineers as "easily replaceable", as though high-tech knowledge and experience can be easily replaced
- Since the control of GE Aviation moved to Corporate Headquarters, GE Aviation's innovation and culture has changed...for the worst: Like many have stated, GE Aviation:
- increased its management layers; too many chiefs, not enough people to do the work
- has too many metrics and many that cause more harm than good, like creating an environment where leaders are more worried about meeting their short-term goals, while forgetting about and/or not even considering long-term implications
- leadership is short-cited (see above); "if we don't see the payoff right now, forget about it" mentality. results in missed opportunities later on
- seems to have forgotten the importance of taking care of its customers
- not diverse regarding work styles
- Forced ranking system outdated, demoralizing, and creates a very competitive vs. collaborative work environment: it made sense when they had 35,000 employees, but now they have too few people to do the work, and it's known that hiring and training a new employee costs more than working with your current employees
- Pay is "competitive" (meaning average), but the expectations are very high
