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Working at GE Energy in Schenectady, NY: 8 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Schenectady, NY Area

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On average, employees in Schenectady, NY at GE Energy give their company a 3.7 rating out of 5.0 based on 8, whereas overall Average Rating of GE Energy is 4.0 out of 5.0 based on 87 GE Energy Review Ratings. The happiest GE Energy employees in Schenectady, NY are Lead Reliability Engineers submitting an average rating of 5.0 and Anonymous Employees with a rating of 4.2.

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4.0
Average Rating
(based on 53 GE Energy Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
3.9
Growth Opportunities
3.7
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.3
Rewards You Receive
3.7
Support You Get
3.8
Way You Work
4.1
Work Setting
4.1
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"GE Energy is a great place to work if you like challenging technologies, excellent co-workers, and great benefits."
Posted 15 years ago in Minden, NV

Working at GE Energy in Schenectady, NY: 8 Employee Reviews

GE Energy Employee

"I am looking for an immediate job change."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
GE Energy Employee

"GE Power & Water was an excellent company and extremely please to be part of the GE team."

Person You Work For 4.7 / 5 People You Work With 4.7 / 5 Work Setting 4.7 / 5
Support You Get 4.7 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.7 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.7 / 5
Company Culture 4.7 / 5 Way You Work 4.7 / 5

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

4.0
GE Energy (87)

4.4 Highest Rated in this Industry is Littelfuse (15)
2.8 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Edmund Optics (7)
3.6 Average of All Companies in this Industry (1,517)
Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

"GE used to be a great place, not anymore."

What do you like about working at GE Energy?

"The people that do the work and run the shovels are a good core of folks. We can make an impact when we work together."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Stay away. GE's benefits are not what they were and this is a depressing environment to work in."

What don't you like about working at GE Energy?

"Upper management has very little respect for the technical people that make the wheels go 'round. They care little about anything but image and it shows in the fact that our business has countless quality issues that are not solved."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get the right people for a job instead of a friend you had on OMLP that has no idea about the product we produce."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Onsite Coordinator

What do you like about working at GE Energy?

"8 hrs work per day, 2 off's in a week and Infrastructure is good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"GE is a very good company. You are lucky if you get a job."

What don't you like about working at GE Energy?

"I dont like companies which lay off employees for Economical/Finance reason. It is no where concerned with the performance of the employee."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My sincere advise is make sure you should not lose good resource for Budget reasons."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Lead Reliability Engineer

"learning a lot and like company culture"

What do you like about working at GE Energy?

"Nuclear control retrofit project and system reliability analysis. Certainly, some Oil and Gas projects are perfect for using my knowledge."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be aggressive. bring new ideas to the company and keep focus all the time as the bar to measure employee performance is rising all the time"

What don't you like about working at GE Energy?

"the company culture, we learned a lot. we feel GE a a big school for most of employees"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"saimplification is better, too many reporting layers. Taking to long to make a business decision"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Program Manager

What do you like about working at GE Energy?

"Smart people, global business, interesting work, good leadership, can positively impact people's lives"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Talk to people actually doing the job you are up for, and working for the hiring manager."

What don't you like about working at GE Energy?

"Market position declining/lagging behind competitors, fair amount of infighting between silos, raises kindo small, no bonuses/stock options except for top 1-5% of employees"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reorganize siloed functions, eliminate conflicting metrics, get more aggressive/ less risk averse"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Project Manager

"Good company and good work."

Person You Work For 4.5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.4 / 5
Company Culture 3.7 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Test Engineer

"Would not recommend as an employer."

Person You Work For 1.3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1.2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1.1 / 5
Company Culture 2.3 / 5 Way You Work 1.2 / 5
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