BlocPower Reviews

2.6

29% would recommend to a friend

(26 total reviews)

24% positive business outlook

BlocPower has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 26 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there.

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26 reviews
1.0
11 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Great coworkers -Opportunities to learn -Unlimited PTO

Cons

-I was laid off without warning and with no severance after almost 2 years at the company. -Teams who actually work on projects very understaffed for the expected volume of work. Positions not backfilled when people leave -Lots of turnover -Constantly moving goalposts make it hard to build on anything. -Constantly revising and redoing internal processes, have to learn how to do the same thing in a slightly different way over and over again -Huge number of executives for the size of the company. Close to 1/4 execs. New execs brought in every few months to fix broken processes while teams remain understaffed. -I didn't feel like the work I did was valued by the executives, or that they had any concept of what I did or even who I was. -I had to fight for 4 months for the one raise I received. At the same time, a new entry-level position was created on the team with a salary range higher than both my starting salary and the raise I was given. We didn't even end up hiring a person for the position after conducting multiple interviews. -Terrible insurance -Multiple rounds of brutal layoffs

2.0
22 Jul 2024

Avoid

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is pretty good.

Cons

The culture is toxic and the mission is fraudulent. It's a political front.

1.0
27 Nov 2023

Burns Investors' Cash and Exploits NY's Poor

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Is it a "pro" to work at the next Theranos? The one thing BP's good at is accumulating/burning investor cash (usually in the form of investor debt), burning cash at a rate of $1-2 million per month. You have to feel bad for the investors.

Cons

Their business model: Exploit NY's poorest communities by leasing expensive heat pump systems at high interest that will drastically increase their energy costs, with little regard to credit-worthiness. How could they pull off such a scam? For starters, showing a projected energy savings in the sales pitch (right in the PowerPoint) - but NOT GUARANTEE energy savings. Quick calcs are performed, often by interns, showing energy savings that couldn't possibly materialize, and are shown to potential customers before an engineer can review them, making it the engineer's job to provide a more thorough analysis backing up the original numbers after-the-fact. Call it "grading your own homework". When the engineer doesn't play ball and shows calcs they don't like - after leaving the engineer's hands, "fudge the numbers". Then continue to push the sale onto NY's poorest at all costs, even if all warning signs are showing that they can't pay. It's a re-branding of the subprime mortgage crisis, painted green.

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