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POWER Engineers

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Typical engineering company - Electrical Engineer IV POWER Engineers Employee Review

2.0
7 Nov 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The company does some really cool power projects and have some big name clients. Gigantic battery systems. Huge transmission lines. Power plants in exotic places. Unfortunately if you are not in the club you will be doing french fry factories and motor control centers for cat food factories. They have all the engineering software - PTW ETAP REVIT. Relaxed dress code. They added 2 more sick days in 2017. I heard it was a great place to work in the 90's.

Cons

There is no mentoring if you have 5 years of experience or more. You just get put on projects on your own to grind them out. The benefits are very basic for an engineering company, a bit less profit sharing than my last place. Some people dress reallllly sloppily. I was hired as an hourly employee (huge perk for engineering!), but after 3 years was promoted to salary - and year end take was 5% less than previous year. There is no reason to come work here if you are in the middle years of your carreer and won't be getting the hourly pay. The management style here I would describe as "good ole boy" club. My particular office is 95% white guys which lets some people be a bit to free with their language and attitudes. There are huge IT issues. No special benefits like maternity/paternity leave. If you are in a smaller office expect to get the scraps (furniture, printers, projects, recognition), as well as missing out on networking opportunities.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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