Pros
1) Permissive vacation policy - this is only good if you have a manager that allows you to use it. I've heard of some employees that have to beg for vacation days. 2) Opportunity to work with a diverse background of people from all over the world. 3) Much of the current employee pool are great, highly talented people.
Cons
1) You will likely have to train yourself. GE Healthcare is not good about providing training for new employees to be successful. They may help you learn parts of your job but expect you will need to drive that process. 2) Management controls costs by lay-offs - and lots of them. In the last 2 years there have been at least 7 substantial staff reductions, 2 in 2021 already. It does not matter how long you've been with the company or how amazing you are as an employee, you can still be part of a lay-off. Every 4th quarter there is an annual layoff as well. 3) Once you do get a lay-off, the employees and suppliers are so used to this being a regular occurrence they literally drop you like a hot potato. People who you used to speak to daily, just redirect to whomever they reassign your tasks to. 4) Most of the leadership that were present to get GE Healthcare in trouble are still in the top leadership roles. Some have started to turn over but not enough. 5) The work locations haven't been updated since they were brought online - meaning if you happen to work in a newer office, your furniture and environment is probably decent. If you have the unfortunate assignment to an office that was opened 20/30 years ago, that's probably the last time the furniture, carpet etc. was changed. 6) This list could go on for quite a bit, should you chose to work here be very aware that it's not a cake walk. 7) Advancement and promotions are difficult for the average employee. They use job bands to classify where your job lands on the pay scale. It was difficult to move to a higher band before and now they've expanded the levels so movement is harder than before. 8) Expect to do most of your work in Excel. All the ways that work gets done is very manual, investment hasn't been made in processes or programs to make work easier. With the staff reductions, employees just do what they have to do get the job done. 9) Team goals are often in direct conflict with goals of adjacent teams. Makes achieving them quite difficult when the teams aren't working to a higher, good of the company goals.
