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At a former job, I worked on the low-level OS support for GE devices. With that perspective, I would never buy one of their products that contains any software
by voakbasda 5y ago
At a former job, I worked on the low-level OS support for GE devices. With that perspective, I would never buy one of their products that contains any software, and I actively warn others not to buy them.
I worked on medical devices. Imagine how much worse the software will be on devices that do not have that level of regulatory scrutiny.
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- loonster 5y agoI have a GE Profile Induction Range. I both love and hate it. Idiots that designed it used capacitive touch sensors to adjust everything, including temperature of the burners. Think of using your phone with wet hands. Now imagine pan frying something on the range and it splatters adjusting the temperature to max. Need to have presence of mind to either dry the sensor and turn off, or remove pan from range so it auto turns off. Many manufacturers are doing the same thing and not just GE. Someone is going to have their house burn down because of this design decision.
- bombcar 5y agoThe “store wow factor” is getting out of control. Devices that look great on the showroom floor but completely impractical in use. Commercial market products sometimes avoid this but commercial ovens usually aren’t insulated at all.
- vosper 5y agoI think that’s actually common for induction cooktops of many brands. I believe the reason is so to keep the surface a single flat sheet of glass. They’re incredibly easy to clean compared to any other kind of cooktop. But I agree, not so great to use. On my last one if any water spilled on the capacitive area (eg because of boil over) it would “panic” and completely switch off. I still love induction and I would rather have it with capacitive buttons than any other kind of cooktop, and I have a high-end gas one.
- ratg13 5y agoGE is terrible at software, mostly due to their relationship with Tata. You were working on actual GE devices though, these appliances are GE in name only and slapped together by people who are even less skilled.
- aulin 5y agoThe problem with anecdotic insights like this is they don't give any information about the competitors, sure you have direct experience with GE (in a completely different dept) but how does that provide any information about any other manufacturer you didn't work at? they could be far worse, they could be far better. Also different divisions within GE could be managed in a vastly different way from your experience.
- voakbasda 5y agoI have worked with many large businesses in my long career. I would say that most are bad at software, to an extent that I am amazed that any of these gargantuan companies can remain in business. As someone that cares about quality, the experiences have helped to make me extremely bitter and cynical about a career that I once loved. The entire software industry is a house of cards, from what I have seen. No exceptions.
- aulin 5y agoI understand the bitterness and I believe many of us here can definitely relate. My comment was more about the general tendency to extrapolate from specific experiences to general considerations.
- Handytinge 5y agoWhen I was younger, I was riding my bicycle and hit by a car. The driver had a GE Electric polo shirt on. He got out, said "are you ok?" (I was concussed and my bicycle was very damaged) and then left. A few days later I contacted the local GE office (only one anywhere around) and described the car, the man and what happened. They got back to me the next day and advised they had no information for me. Since then I've been actively hostile to GE and in various business activities found ways to cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm aware this is a rounding error for them, but fuck those guys.