My two cents on GE Digital – we’ll see some major changes, not just regular restructuring and reorg pains that we have to endure every year – depending where you are plugged in you may or may not go through a shift that will end up with jobs being lost.
I’ve joined three years ago and I am getting increasingly frustrated with the amount of bureaucracy and an insane amount of politics that plays out on a daily basis. All of this takes a toll, over time things accumulate and people are getting fed up – I know we are trying to be agile and move things quickly, product oriented, etc…
But, in the background people are still building empires, the processes are getting convoluted, the SDLC is bloated, slow and often broken. On the other hand, I work with very talented folks and overall we feel like we have a well defined purpose (as a team and as a company) but at the same time things are reaching the point where I will simply have to leave (if I am not cut before I pull the trigger – this would not surprise me at all as folks are already talking about layoffs).
Good luck to all and I hope things turn out to be better than I am predicting here.