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      PowerAdvocate Reviews

      4.2

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (100 total reviews)

      Daniel Sullivan

      96% approve of CEO

      85% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Culture and values

      4.3

      Diversity and inclusion

      4.2

      Senior management

      4.2

      Career opportunities

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      PowerAdvocate has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 100 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The PowerAdvocate employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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      100 reviews
      2.0
      6 Jul 2017

      Mediocre and irrelevant - don't waste your time!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Most of the employees are smart and genuine, to the exception of some bad seeds, who have a history of harrassing coworkers (male and female), across multiple departments (Management persists that they have been valuable to the Company's growth in the past, and don't want to "get in the culture of firing people"). If you do your job correctly (not hard, most people do) you can get promoted quickly (Management uses that as a scheme to keep people around).

      Cons

      Overall, the work you do in Client Services is unsophisticated and unimpressive. PowerAdvocate hires engineers from top schools - unfortunately the work Management offers to the clients is basic and boring (as one of my old coworker stated "high paid clerical work"). My biggest recommendation is to not stay in the company for more than 2 years. The work is so obsolete, that it'll become very hard to brand yourself (as you thought you would if you had worked at a normal consulting firm) to future companies. Sadly, the Leadership team truly believes that the work they do with their clients (all archaic utilities who are still stuck in the 70s) is unique . Reality check - hours spent frivolously on PowerPoints is nothing but a waste of time. Additionally, they WILL send you to middle of nowhere locations for months (Kansas, Calgary, Texas, Nevada Monday to Thursday) and pay you a ridiculously low salary (65k for associates, 73k for managers). Yearly salary increases are around 7%, which amounts to 100 dollars a month more after tax. Once again, this is contingent on if they're having a "good year" (unclear what that means for such an irrelevant company).

      1.0
      5 Jul 2016

      Avoid this company !!!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Location is convenient for commuting since is close to South Station.

      Cons

      - Toxic work environment. - Some of the team leads are Incompetent and unprofessional (f.e. whining about the amount of work, saying things like "X is not the smartest person around" etc). - Software development teams work from a basement! - Computers are at least 5 years old and break often

      3.0
      1 Aug 2017

      Cooperative and healthy culture, pedestrian work

      Client services manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Really excellent company culture. The vast majority of people in the Client Services (CS) team genuinely want to help you, teach you, and see you succeed. The team environment was very cooperative, in my experience. The camaraderie among the CS team is great in both a personal and a professional sense--it's easy to work hard alongside people you respect and enjoy spending time with. The company tends to hire very smart and capable people, meaning you can always rely on your teammates, no matter what clients ask for. I also found that team leads were eager to give credit for good work to junior employees where it was due, both internally and in communications with clients. I found the work-life balance to generally be very healthy. I worked 40 hours a week for about 80% of my time at the company, and there's absolutely no cultural norm of "staying at the office late = being good at your job". They're very flexible about when you arrive and leave, and about working from home, as long as you're reasonable about it. There are also happy hours (monthly) and company outings (4-5/year). If you can establish a reputation for delivering high-quality and inventive work, you're more likely to be put on interesting projects. Most team leads in CS are very receptive to innovative ideas, and if you demonstrate value you'll be rewarded with as much trust, independence, and respect as you can earn. I got a lot of extremely valuable experience interacting with clients. The directors and MDs I worked with were very comfortable with letting junior employees take credit for and present their work directly to clients, even client management. I also got to spend a lot of time working side-by-side with clients.

      Cons

      The work that Client Services (CS) does is not very innovative or intellectually challenging. The methodology for most of the predominant types of service packages has been set in stone for years, and often requires a considerable amount of rote work. Employees are smart and qualified enough to execute much more complex types of analysis, but few senior leaders are interested in exploring and promoting that type of work to customers (although this attitude seems to be changing at all levels). This job is nearly pure supply chain work. If you're fresh out of college and don't know what that entails, do your research before applying here. You're likely to spend most of your time looking for savings on various types of power-industry items (e.g. transformers or wire), on a tactical or short-term strategic basis. There are usually one or two management/high-level strategy projects going on or in the pipeline, but they are the exception. Opportunities to meaningfully distinguish yourself can be somewhat rare, due to the nature of the work. I'd definitely recommend picking up ancillary tools and knowledge (e.g. basic statistics, corporate finance, Excel modeling, global market-relevant current events, graphical data presentation) to help you stand out even when the actual work is pedestrian and doesn't require much creativity or flair. It's also very important to be proactive (and lucky) about pursuing engagements you think are interesting and relevant to you; fortunately, management is supportive of getting you where you want to be in terms of experience. The pay is not very competitive, although for me the healthy culture and work-life balance was a pretty fair exchange.

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