GE Current Reviews

3.0

42% would recommend to a friend

(78 total reviews)
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Bill Tolley

66% approve of CEO

21% positive business outlook

GE Current has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 78 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The GE Current employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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78 reviews
3.0
3 Aug 2023

Good Pay

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Well structured brand with opportunities for bonus

Cons

Poor communication, lack of senior management direction

3.0
4 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most employees are paid quite fairly considering that they are located in low cost of living states. Workloads are generally balanced. The most anyone is required to commute to the office is 3 days per week and a lot of people have gone fully WFH. Benefits are solid with low premiums for insurance, a good 401k match, and high tuition reimbursement. There are a lot of genuinely good people here and I have made many friends.

Cons

You have got a few trends that combined create a negative feedback loop. Current is a weak player in a weak product market, for this reason, they were spun off from GE in 2019. From the start a loss-making company, management opted for a strategy of systematic cost-cutting. While this did allow the company to turn a profit, most of the potential sales growth was destroyed. This impacts employment in a lot of ways. 1. Layoffs are common. Anyone outside of the absolutely essential functions is cut. 2. Management doesn't want to give raises/promotions because they are trying hard to reduce costs. 3. Because of the layoffs and lack of growth, the best and brightest employees see little reason to stay and jump ship. 4. The employees who stay behind are not motivated to give more than the bare minimum and mediocrity is the result. Some high turnover companies are great development opportunities for inexperienced employees, as higher up positions constantly need to be filled (Big 4 accounting firms for example). Current is not one of them; there are few training structures in place and management generally chooses to hire relatively experienced candidates externally to fill empty positions even if it means paying high market rates. If you are one of these experienced external hires - realize that you will be given the exact amount of money/benefits needed to get you to join the company, but will not be getting much more afterward as far as raises or career advancement. Generally, these experience hires last about a year so their sign-on bonus vests and their resume doesn't have 2 job changes in 12 months.

3.0
15 Mar 2022

Leadership Issues

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Lots of intelligent and bright people at the company 2. Promising product development

Cons

1. Senior leadership is outdated and needs to all be replaced 2. Lots of turnover due to company misalignment and dropping the ball over the years. 3. Benefits were cut left and right, pay raises were stopped and layoffs occurred often.

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