<p>Well, at least their Olympic commercials were fun to watch :) Does GE offer better wages, benefits, and job security than other smaller companies? (Same goes for Siemens.) Anyone employed by GE?</p>
<p>Thanks! Just curious; I'm about to go into my freshman year of engineering :)</p>
<p>I know a number of engineers who work for GE and they really like it. GE is very secure, so your job will probably be too (at least more so than with a small company). Also, they have great benefits and offer excellent career assistance. All GE folk get Six Sigma training/certification, in addition they pay for most of any continuing education. With companies in almost any part of the world they also have great opportunity for expat work, if you want to do that.</p>
<p>There are some large companies that I would recommend shying away from, but GE is not one of them.</p>
<p>Yes. GE wages are actually very good. I wasn't aware all GE folks get 6 sigma though...I intern there right now and not everyone has it.</p>
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<p>Could you elaborate on these companies?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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I wasn't aware all GE folks get 6 sigma though...I intern there right now and not everyone has it.
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<p>Maybe it's optional and not required.</p>
<p>What is six sigma?</p>
<p>Basically, it's a strategy for eliminating defects and errors in repetitive processes (such as manufacturing for example).</p>
<p>Google it if you want more information.</p>
<p>Its a bastardization of the Juran trilogy.</p>
<p>I was wondering, how many people are in one team in GE?</p>
<p>Depends. Where I intern, the 'Lean Implementing Team' for example has about 10 members. I'll try to find out more if I can. The Safety Team has about 15...</p>
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<p>Depends. Where I intern, the 'Lean Implementing Team' for example has about 10 members. I'll try to find out more if I can. The Safety Team has about 15...
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<p>What was the interview process like and what do you think were they looking for? What kind of questions did they ask you?</p>
<p>^I want to know the same thing. :)</p>
<p>I interviewed with GE Industrial last fall for a summer internship at the operations management leadership program (OMLP). The process was as follows:</p>
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<li><p>On-campus interview</p></li>
<li><p>If you 'pass' the on-campus interview, you are invited to take a tour at a plant that may or may not be where you will be working </p></li>
<li><p>At the plant tour: </p>
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<li>First, a tour of the plant </li>
<li>Interviews with HR, plant managers, etc. If i remember correctly I did about five interviews. The questions had a bent towards manufacturing, leadership, management, processes.<br></li>
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<li><p>You hear back in a matter of days as to whether you are offered a position. </p></li>
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<p>Looking back, at the time I was a naive sophomore eager to find any position at a big company. Frankly I had no idea what I wanted to do at the time and it was during the plant tour that it became increasingly clear to me that manufacturing and all that six-sigma stuff just was not interesting to me as an EE student who wanted to work on more technical things. This obviously influenced my interviews and thus outcome of the visit (I was given a 'no thank-you'). This is my experience with GE industrial--I'm sure things would have been much different if I sought a position in a different GE division. I still think it is a fantastic company nonetheless.</p>
<p>5 interviews, eh?! damn... Sounds like a lot of interviews. lol.. </p>
<p>Considering that you went in as a sophomore, did they expect you have to have experience in management/manufacturing? Did they ask you technical questoins on manufacturing/management?</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>For me:</p>
<p>1) Campus interview, got hired on the spot
2) Submit resume online for their records
3) Got assignment
4) Visited plant
5) Started internship</p>
<p>I went in as a sophomore.</p>
<p>YMMV, they won't ask you technical questions. They did expect you to have taken classes in management/manufacturing. GE is also a huge fan of the question what is your best strength and what is your weakness.</p>
<p>This is with GE Rail (Transportation).</p>
<p>@ eastern. How can you apply for OMLP as a sophomore? All the seniors I work with applied for OMLP. Oh, and its pretty hard to get into that program by the way.</p>
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They did expect you to have taken classes in management/manufacturing. GE is also a huge fan of the question what is your best strength and what is your weakness.
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<p>Well as an Sophomore IE major, I probably wont have any management/manufacturing courses as such.. Hopefully, that won't put me at a disadvantage. </p>
<p>So basically, Iloveagoodbrew, you happy with the internship so far? Did you have a formal training program and which office are you working at btw? </p>
<p>Thanks much.</p>
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For me:</p>
<p>1) Campus interview, got hired on the spot
2) Submit resume online for their records
3) Got assignment
4) Visited plant
5) Started internship</p>
<p>I went in as a sophomore.
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That's awesome. You must be really qualified. On their website, it says there is a 45-minute on-campus interview then an on-site interview.</p>
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Well as an Sophomore IE major, I probably wont have any management/manufacturing courses as such.. Hopefully, that won't put me at a disadvantage. </p>
<p>So basically, Iloveagoodbrew, you happy with the internship so far? Did you have a formal training program and which office are you working at btw? </p>
<p>Thanks much.
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After you finish your sophomore IE curriculum you will have enough experience to do an internship at GE. What they will have you do will be a lot more paperwork/excel/talking to people about problems, etc. They won't make you write essays on Juran trilogy or ask you the merits of implementing a pull system in a product assembly line...You will be just fine.</p>
<p>I like it so far. The pay is decent, and the assignments are just the right difficulty. I did not have a formal training program, and its almost a guarantee most interns won't as well. I'm working on assisting the technical assistants (owners of the main assembly line) with various projects focused on lean and ergonomics. Infrastructure-->Transport-->Diesel Engine Plant-->Engine Main Assembly (Me)</p>
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That's awesome. You must be really qualified. On their website, it says there is a 45-minute on-campus interview then an on-site interview.
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<p>Nah, just got lucky :). I had an on campus interview...more like 20 minutes though. I didn't have an on-site one. Just visited the plant a week before I started.</p>
<p>What do you think they were looking for when they hired you? Did you have a high GPA or something?</p>
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Nah, just got lucky . I had an on campus interview...more like 20 minutes though. I didn't have an on-site one. Just visited the plant a week before I started.
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Please tell me how that works. High GPA? A bulk load of relevant experiences? By the way, when was your interview...was it really late in April or early around November?</p>