This gets at the crux of the problem that I have with the GE recruiting commercials more than anything else - it's not as engineering-focused of a culture as it would lead you to believe. It's certainly a lot more hands-on "get things done" than many big companies I've seen (perhaps too much!), but it's still a big, boring company whose primary advantages are fundamentally "it's large" rather than based upon engineering innovations, and sales people have more power fundamentally than engineers. A great deal of people work really hard and people tend to be polite, but working smarter is far, far more important in technology than just effort, and appointing all your fresh, brightest college grads into management tracks as priority is furthering the brain drain problem.
The San Ramon office is like a h1b1 warehouse. I think they know they have these people almost locked in and take advantage of it. I've been here over a year and have yet to see a single person fired.
You could honestly fire 40% of the people in GE Digital and it'll function the same if not better then it did before
