Pros
- Most of your coworkers are great to work with: smart, curious, helpful, willing to share knowledge - Cool technology - Continuous opportunities to learn new technologies, new tools, etc. - Decent benefits, even though not as good as pre-2009 - Opportunities to advance education within and outside company: Black Belt, Master's, etc. - You will become a better engineer/problem solver/process improver, because they have proven processes and methodologies to follow and learn from - As long as it doesn't cost a lot of money and/or there is a budget for it, you have freedom to make changes/improvements regarding how your department/group works
Cons
- 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forgotten the importance of taking care of its customers - not diverse regarding work styles - Forced ranking system outdated, demoralizing, and creates a very competitive vs. collaborative work environment: it made sense when they had 35,000 employees, but now they have too few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