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      No Longer Family - Anonymous employee Xcel Energy Employee Review

      2.0
      9 Aug 2015
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      One of the greatest benefits of being a full time employee at Xcel Energy is the paid time off you can take to volunteer for local non-profits and charitable organizations. This is a company that still offers a pension and a generous vacation package. It can offer interesting and complex work.

      Cons

      The utility industry is changing and Xcel Energy's executive leadership is running scared. They do not know what they want and as a result they are a thrashing, dysfunctional organization that pits it's employees against one another. It is a bloated and wasteful company where leadership speaks of "bending the cost curve", yet do business like it is 1999. Because the don't have competition to focus on, they eat their own and waste the talents of many top performers in endless turf battles and wars of egotistical supremacy. If you can disengage your brain, your conscience and your ethics, you can likely survive nicely in this environment.

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      Xcel Energy Response
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      Thank you for taking the time to share such thoughtful, candid feedback. We’re proud you shared your talents with us for over a decade and are pleased you found the work interesting and benefits generous. If there’s anything else you’d like to share that may help us improve our work environment, we welcome your thoughts at HR@xcelenergy.com. Thanks again.

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      Cons

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